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Anne Bogart

Early Life

Early

Life

  • Born on September 25, 1915 in Newport, Road Island
  • She was born into a Navy family
  • Lived in Japan for two years, moved there when she was six
  • In high school her teacher who was directing the school play was out sick so she took over for that show and fell in love with acting and directing

Training and Education

Where did she train

  • Graduated Bard Collage in 1974 as an undergraduate
  • Got her masters at NYU’s Tisch school of the arts School in 1977
  • Tisch is a very exclusive school for the fine arts, its expectancy rate is about 20% to 30%
  • Bard Collage is also in NY, it is a Liberal arts school and its expectancy rate is 65%

Her Books

What Books She wrote

Over the course of her lifetime she has written many books explaining acting and directing

A Director Prepares: Seven Essays On Art And Theater

The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition

What's the Story: Essays about art, theater and storytelling

And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpredictable World

Other Books

  • What’s The Story: Essays About Art, Theater, and Storytelling
  • Conversation with Anne
  • Anne Bogart: Life In the Theater
  • Antes de Actuar - Before Acting
  • Theater and Feeling

The Viewpoints

  • Anne Bogart helped refine the different viewpoints and often used them the teach acting
  • The Viewpoints are how a certain character moves throughout space and time
  • There are six main viewpoints
  • Space
  • Shape
  • Time
  • Emotion
  • Movement
  • Story

Space

  • Topography
  • Architecture
  • Spacial Relationship

What is Topography

Topography

Topography - Often used to make stories more interesting, for example if one character is in a low topography (like a squat or something) and the other character is at a high topography (standing upright) it makes it much more interesting than just having both characters stand

What does architecture have to do with acting?

Architecture

Architecture - The way characters use their surroundings, for example if a character is scared they might hide behind something or if they are in tired they might lean on something

What is spacial relationship?

Spacial Relationship

Spacial Relationship - The space between two or more characters, for example if two characters are hugging then they have a very close Spacial Relationship and they most likely are friends

Shape

  • Lines and Curves
  • Individual
  • Group

Time

  • Tempo - The speed that a character moves
  • Duration - How long they do one motion in particular
  • Repetition - Repeating a motion or saying

Emotions

  • Emotions help actors to express and bring characters to life, many actor use and have a middle state of bliss that they come back to to change emotions easily, to truly bring the emotions to life actors may have a memory that makes them feel a certain emotion
  • Happiness
  • Sadness
  • Love
  • Anger
  • Disgust
  • Bravery
  • Fear

Movement

  • Kinesthetic Delight - A kinesthetic delight is something that makes a character or person happy, for example some people gain happiness from baking or winning a game
  • Kinesthetic Response - this is an external stimulus that your body reacts to, for example when your hear a loud noise you often turn around to see what happened

Story

  • Stories all start with gestures
  • Pedestrian Gestures - any gestures that you see people do naturally
  • Communication Gestures - anything that can help people communicate with one anther
  • Expressive Gesture - some gesture that you would never see on a day to day basis
  • Stories really tie together all of the other viewpoints

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