Theatre Biomechanics with Anatoly I, Notes

BM acting One *

2007 Spring class Acting One

Fundamentals : BioMethod

* The Images (The Album) are still not all in place! [new from vTheatre -- GeoAlaska, links to my graphic files are in the list minipages]

"Acting One" overview -- monologue study

virtual theatre 2007 Reading Assignments (textbook), according to 1-4 levels of BM or Meyerhold 501

Script Analysis Actor:

Theatre Books Master Page *

BM Acting I, Notes

Igor Ilinsky, 504 (Actors on Acting)
3rd reading: Commedia (masks and types)
Four levels = four parts on each my webpage!

First -- the easiest. Last -- most difficult.
textbook 2007
new : instructors page + notes pages
From required (definitions) to recommended ; dictionary & glossary
Notes and comments (right table)

The Viewpoints Book : A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition by Anne Bogart -- The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers deal with-space and time-into six categories. Since that time, directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau have expanded her notions and adapted them for actors to function together spontaneously and intuitively and to generate bold, theatrical work.
The Viewpoints are a set of names given to certain principles of movement through time and space-they constitute a language for talking about what happens on stage. Coupling this with Composition, which is the practice of selecting and arranging the separate components of theatrical language into a cohesive work of art, provides theatre artists with an important new tool for creating and understanding their art form.
Primarily intended for the many theatre artists who, in the last several years, have become intrigued with Viewpoints yet have had no single source to refer to in their investigations. It can also be used by anyone with a general interest in collaboration and the creative process, whether in art, business or daily life.
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.
Tina Landau, noted director and playwright, whose original work includes Space (Time magazine 10 Best), Dream True (with composer Ricky Ian Gordon) and Floyd Collins (with composer Adam Guettel), which received the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical, an OBIE Award and seven Drama Desk nominations. She has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company since 1997.

Summary

Lesson 1 -- 4

Actor and Text

Homework

textbook

Monologues Pages

BM Acting I, Notes

Summary

Homework

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