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Viewpoints (Body) Lecture

This document provides an overview of Viewpoints, a technique for training performers, building ensembles, and creating movement for the stage. It was pioneered by Anne Bogart and Tina Landau. The document defines several Viewpoints including tempo, duration, kinesthetic response, repetition, shape, gestures, architecture, spatial relationship, and composition. It concludes with an activity asking students to compose a movement piece using Viewpoints about the cycle of life.

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Viewpoints (Body) Lecture

This document provides an overview of Viewpoints, a technique for training performers, building ensembles, and creating movement for the stage. It was pioneered by Anne Bogart and Tina Landau. The document defines several Viewpoints including tempo, duration, kinesthetic response, repetition, shape, gestures, architecture, spatial relationship, and composition. It concludes with an activity asking students to compose a movement piece using Viewpoints about the cycle of life.

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VIEWPOINTS

(BODY)

2202-1202YA 1AADPEI
by: Gabo Tolentino
CLASS FL0W
Check-In
Warm-up (Alexander Method)
Body Viewpoints
Body Awareness
CHECK-IN!
WARM-UP!
Pioneered by Anne Boggart and Tina Landau

VIEWPOINTS Viewpoints is a philosophy translated into a


technique for (1) training performers; (2)
building ensemble; and (3) creating
movement for the stage.
We will be focusing on VOCAL and
Physical Viewpoints
PHYSICAL
VIEWPOINTS
TEMPO
The rate of speed at which a movement occurs;
how fast or slow something happens onstage.
DURATION
How long a movement or sequence of
movements continues.
KINESTHETIC
RESPONSE
A spontaneous reaction to motion which occurs
outside you; the timing in which you respond to
the external events of movement or sound
REPETITION
The repeating of something onstage.
Internal Repetition & External Repetition
SHAPE
The contour or outline the body (or bodies) makes In space
LINE-CURVES-COMBINATION
SELF-ARCHITECTURE-RELATIONSHIP
GESTURES
with the hands, the arms, the legs, the head, the mouth, the
eyes, the feet, the stomach, or any other part or combination
of parts that can be isolated
BEHAVIORAL
GESTURES
Belongs to the concrete, physical world of human behavior
as we observe it in our everyday reality
EXPRESSIVE
GESTURES
Expresses an inner state, an emotion, a desire, an idea or a
value. It is abstract and symbolic rather than
representational.
ARCHITECTURE
The physical environment in which you are working and how
awareness of it affects movement.

Move with the space!

SOLID-TEXTURE-LIGHT-COLOR-SOUND
SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP
The distance between things onstage. (1) one body to
another; (2) one body (or bodies) to a group of bodies; (3) the
body to the architecture.

What does the space tell you?


COMPOSITION
CREATE A NEW WORK!
ACTIVITY
Riddle of the Sphinx:
Compose a movement piece about the cycle of life.
Make a clear beginning-middle-end!
Use viewpoints in composing the movement.
BODY AWARENESS
BODY AWARENESS
THANK YOU!

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