Viewpoints Training

Photo by Warwick Gow

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Based on Mary Overlie’s The Six Viewpoints, this 2-day workshop explores six kinetic materials that make up live performance. Through a process of deconstruction and experimentation, artists develop a deep physical understanding and relationship to:

| Space | Shape | Time | Emotion | Movement | Story |

An increased sensitivity to these phenomenon strengthens a performer’s connection to the present moment and equips them with compositional tools to apply to improvisation, devising, or staging. For directors of contemporary performance, an embodied understanding of these materials enriches the dialogue between the performer, the work, and themselves.

The Viewpoints is an improvisational technique widely embraced in physical theatre training. Originally emerging from the post-modern dance world, The Viewpoints draw on visual arts terminology as much as it does live performance.

Qualities cultivated by the training:
• Access a tangible, practical framework for developing presence and spontaneity as a performer
• Expand physical vocabulary and expressive range
• Develop a highly attuned capacity for improvisation
• Enhance responsiveness and body-listening for solo work, ensemble, and scene work.
• Generate richer, more nuanced material when devising
• Experiment with a scenographic approach to the body
• Unique approaches and provocations for creating stage blocking and choreography
• Wrestle with a post-modern and anarchic approach to creating performance dramaturgies
• A paradigm and framework to reimagine the experience of “audience” through an embodied lens
• Develop an ongoing embodied practice to guide a sustainable artistic career that nourishes the artistic impulse.

Ruby has trained in The Viewpoints for over ten years. She was one of sixteen performers from all over the world accepted into Anne Bogart + SITI Company’s 2016/17 Conservatory (NYC) and was awarded a scholarship from the company to attend. In 2017, she also had the privilege of attending an intensive with Mary Overlie in New York. In 2010, Ruby began training with Zen Zen Zo in Australia and later went on to be accepted into their competitive 6-month Performance Maker Internship in 2014.

Ruby’s teaching credits include: Creating Body tutor at QUT for theatre, dance, and music students (2018 + 2019), Expressions Dance, Backbone Arts, and Embodied Practice for Directors at Playlab (2020).

Ruby is an interdisciplinary artist with a body-based practice and background in contemporary performance. Ruby works with text, choreography, installation, and participatory practices to create work for theatre, gallery, and digital spaces. Find out more at: www.rubydonohoe.com

Photo by Warwick Gow

When
Tuesday 15th June, 2021
9am - 5pm

Wednesday 16th June, 2021
9am - 2.30pm

Where
Backbone Arts
Riverside Studio
38 Lytton Rd, East Brisbane

*Venue is wheelchair accessible

Tickets
Regular Price: $180
Support Others: $220 (If you can afford, this allows some others to have discounted tickets)
Reduced: $150 (limited number)
*Fill out the registration form below and ticket payment details will be emailed directly