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INTRODUKTORY WORKSHOP Duration: 2 days 10-4
Instructors: Luciana Abel Arcuri, Marina Dessau, Sara Spennemann
Venue: Ufer Studios Studio 1
For: actors, dancers, clowns, circus artists, directors, musicians, performers, dramaturgs, architects, art- teachers, persons interested in embodied democratic creativity
we mainly focus on physical training for stage artists and
the composition method for directors whilst touching on aspects of postdramatic performance stage art.
We begin the workshop with a brief theoretical, then practical introduction to the 9 Viewpoints according
to Bogart/Landau. We then apply the Viewpoints in various practical exercises with the whole group.
Thereafter we look at the composition technique as a staging approach where people will split up into
smaller groups. The staging results will be presented before the whole group. Practical viewpoints
exercises will be trained in between the units, also introducing working with music and site-specific
WHAT IS VIEWPOINTS?
The Viewpoints and Composition method after Bogart/Landau is a physical, non-psychological
improvisation technique which offers a tool set for postmodern stage creation and analysis.
It originates in Western postmodern theatre and dance composition of the 1960s, when people were
questioning the societal status quo with its conventional psychological approaches and linear
storytelling, as well as hierarchies in general. Around famous names and events, such as Cage’s 4’33“,
in New York a small group artists, wondered,
how to translate the idea of non- hierarchical collaboration into practical (artistic) work?
The experimental attitude of this group led to what today is the core of performance art: Whatever was
done whilst examining a given subject, be it by a set of rules, a common task or just any other defined
action before an audience, would subsequently become the piece of (stage) art.
Being the young descendants of this group of choreographers and dancers, Anne Bogart and Tina
Landau developed 9 Viewpoints in space and time - an outstanding non-psychological improvisation
training in postdramatic approaches for stage actors and directors.
Today, the method is being taught in major theater schools and applied by many creators who playfully
adapt its philosophy to current times. The technique’s working language for stage art ideally bridges
between all art forms.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Uferstudios, Berlin, Germany
