Anne Bogart
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Anne Bogart
By Katie Janner, Alyssa Greenblatt, Braxton Manley
The Book We ReadCo-written by
Tina Landau
Background Information• Director of plays and operas• Born September 25, 1951• Earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Bard College,
followed by a Master of Arts degree from the Tish School of the Arts in 1977
• Artistic Director of SITI Company in New York, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992.
• Currently a professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program
….what are viewpoints?
Bogart’s Inspiration
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Problems with today’s actors
•The Americanization of the Stanislavsky system
•Lack of ongoing training
•“What does the director want?”
9 Physical Viewpoints
1. Tempo2. Duration3. Kinesthetic Response4. Repetition5. Shape6. Gesture7. Architecture8. Spatial Relationship9. Topography
“Never talk down to your audience”
Soft Focus
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The optimal viewpoint experience:
Warm up
Ensemble warm up
Tempo
Tempo Exercises1. No, we are not French. We are American because you’re in America
okay? Greatest country on the Planet.
2. Just say you love really thin pancakes. That is a fair compromise no?
3.I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy.
Duration
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Duration ExerciseTurn off alarm clock.Get out of bed.Look in the mirror.Brush teeth.DeoderantDress.Shoes.Mirror.Smile.Grab backpack.
Kinesthetic Response
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Kinesthetic Response Exercise
1. Use soft focus and walk around space
2. Target a subject, follow them around
3. Find an additional subject, follow them also
Partners
A- Go in for a hug
B- Feel A’s biceps and say “smells like rain” in a goblin voice.
A- Touch B’s nose very slowly
B- Brush past A and walk away
Repetition
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Repetition Exercise
Spatial Relationship
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Spatial Relationship Exercise
1. Walk around aimlessly and when we clap our hands, stop!
2. Now walk around, turning only in 90 degree angles.
3. Jump in and out of peoples personal space.
Topography
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Topography Exercise
1. Pretend there is red paint on your feet and pretend to paint a picture on the ground.
2. Just meander.
Shape
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Shape Exercise
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Gesture Exercise
Architecture
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Architecture Exercise
Putting individual viewpoints together
Vocal Viewpoints
Group Improvisations
Working with Music
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Viewpoints in Rehearsal
Composition
Something she directed:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZczgZwZGqA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HS1snSDdjc&feature=relmfu
THE END
Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdtvYMXsaI