I’m thrilled to be speaking at the Association for Theatre Movement Educator’s (ATME) Debut Artist-Scholar Panel, sharing my presentation “Empowering Actors Through Viewpoints” on the cross-genre potential of Anne Bogart & Tina Landau’s “Viewpoints of Space & Time.”
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Date:
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Saturday, August 10, 2019
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Time:
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5:15pm – 6:45pm
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Event:
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Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Annual Conference
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Venue:
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Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress
Orlando, Florida
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Tickets:
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FREE with Conference Registration
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More Info:
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https://www.athe.org/page/19conf_home |
Empowering Actors Through Viewpoints
Saturday, August 10, 2019, 5:15pm – 6:45pm at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress
Part of the ATME Artist-Scholar Panel at the 2019 ATHE Conference
Whereas many directors who happen to teach devising or movement may be misrepresenting and/or underestimating the full and cross-genre potential of systems like Anne Bogart & Tina Landau’s Viewpoints, thereby unconsciously passing on their own aesthetic preferences to their students and perpetuating a narrow view of the system as innately “avant-garde” or experimental, I will aim to articulate a philosophy of Viewpoints training and education which empowers, rather than manipulates actors, preparing them for devising and performance across a variety of styles, ranging from Clown and Commedia to Realism and the avant-garde.
In this 20 minute lecture/demonstration, I aim to expand the audience’s conception of the Viewpoints as a method of actor training (across styles and genres) through a pointed critique of many of the misconceptions and misapplications of the methodology.
Read the full text of this presentation FREE (no login necessary) on VTechWorks, Virginia Tech’s Open Access Institutional Repository.