Curious Time
Excerpt from "Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration of Consciousness" "We'd removed our watches and plunged our hands into the...
Shape: A Repository of Information
In the recent Rude Mechanicals Company Intensive, I taught on July 29, 2017, we looked at shape from a Viewpoint lens, a Suzuki lens, and...
The Games: The Acting Exercise
A Game: a place where ingenuity and inventiveness appears to meet the obstacle of the Game. Skills are developed at the very moment when...
The Theories of Viola Spolin
I have spent the last several months looking back over the thoughts and processes of Viola Spolin. She believed that "talented behavior"...
What is the KEY?
What happens if we think of theatre in terms of natural physical phenomenon? What is the landscape of theatre? What is inherently in...
MINIMALIST CONCEPTUALIST
Micro expertise in the discovery of micro movement. By working with deep concentration In repetition a discovery of expertise is made....
POST MODERNIST: Deconstruction
Viewpoints ultimately comes down to careful deconstruction. Getting down to the fine details. This is a refining process of understanding...
THE PIANO: The Relationship to the Audience
What is your ideal audience? What does the audience want? To be tricked, to laugh, to contemplate, to feel, to think, to be entertained,...
SPACE: DEFYING GRAVITY
The human being is an incredible thing. What is a "being" made up of? Well of course we have the body, mind, and spirit. But if we begin...
INTEGRATION of Space, to Performer, to Story, to Audience
If the seed of viewpoints is simply to stand in space, what are the implications? To stand, that a person is fully present and awake,...
