Anne Bogart is Artistic Director of the SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is the recipient of two OBIE Awards and a Bessie Award, and is an associate professor at Columbia University. Her recent works include Alice's Adventures; Bobrauschenbergamerica; Small Lives, Big Dreams; Marathon Dancing; and The Baltimore Waltz. Interested in using Viewpoints to deepen your theatre practice? Below are tips from Lauren and Mitchell on how young performers might employ this approach.

Over the last twenty years, Viewpoints has ignited the imaginations of actors, directors, designers, choreographers, dramaturgs and writers. It is taught all over the world and used by countless theatre-makers in the rehearsal process to develop flexibility, articulation and strength in movement, and to enrich ensemble playing.Overlie, Mary (2016). Standing in Space: The Six Viewpoints Theory and Practice (1sted.). Billings, Montana: Fallon Press. p.66. ISBN 978-1-5136-1361-1. Overlie, Mary (2016). Standing in Space: The Six Viewpoints Theory & Practice (1sted.). Billings, Montana: Fallon Press. p.67. ISBN 978-1-5136-1361-1.

Kinesthetic Response: A spontaneous reaction to a motion that occurs outside of oneself. An instinctive response to an external stimulus (realistic/non-realistic). Kinesthetic Response:How performers respond to movement from other people, objects, or design elements. As a practice at large, The Six Viewpoints "is dedicated to reading the stage as a force of Nature". [1] Bogart's and Landau's Viewpoints [ edit ] Overlie, Mary (2016). Standing in Space: The Six Viewpoints Theory and Practice (1sted.). Billings, Montana: Fallon Press. p.84. ISBN 978-1-5136-1361-1. Lauren says Viewpoints is more than an artistic method; it’s a way of seeing the world. “It’s fun, it’s joyful, and it’s kind of mind-blowing when you realize you can’t do anything wrong,” she said. “Real Viewpoints practice is so delightful, and the answers exist in the other. That’s a really good thing to practice in this world.”

HOW DID VIEWPOINTS ORIGINATE?

In 1987, Bogart met director Tina Landau while working at American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. The two collaborated extensively during the next decade, expanding Overlie’s original six Viewpoints to nine Physical Viewpoints and five Vocal Viewpoints. This is the method Bogart brought to SITI when she co-founded the company with director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992.