Viewpoints

Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that provides a vocabulary for thinking about and acting upon movement and gesture. Originally developed in the 1970s by choreographer Mary Overlie, The Viewpoints theory was adapted for stage acting by directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau. Overlie's Six Viewpoints include: space, story, time, emotion, movement, and shape.

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Integration/Isolation
• All of the different elements influence each other and work together, and can "cause" a change in a different element. For example, the shape of your body may carry a certain emotion with it as well - something in the space of your environment may make a story out of what you are doing - etc.
• The actors must focus first on the isolation of each separate viewpoint element on its own, before integrating and working them all together. It's often that a performer finds one of the elements comes naturally, and perhaps uses that one element they really understand to access the other elements, which they must work to become more familiar with.


Please see me for extended version if you were away on Wednesday's class and missed the work I set to copy out. If you haven't copied out all of teh info into your books, please do so as it will help with our written assessment...coming soon.