I am trying to put together a Viewpoints workshop in Mostar. I trained Viewpoints and Suzuki with CITI company from New York City and I enjoyed Viewpoints more than any other aspect of my actor training. I miss it tremendously and I realized only recently that I will not be able to do any Viewpoints unless people around me know how to do it too. I have not heard of any workshops in either Zagreb or Mostar so I guess all the work is up to me.
I was also very surprised to learn that online resources on Viewpoints are quite limited. The only book I managed to find on the subject was my college textbook called The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition by Anne Bogart and Tina Landau. This surprised me because Anne Bogart's CITI company produced a whole bunch of very successful and critically acclaimed productions using this very method. A great number of Viewpoints workshops I dug out using Google's search engine also led me to believe that this kind work was growing in popularity, so the lack of resources was even more striking. However, I am fortunate enough to have my own resources - Viewpoints class notes, my colleagues and my former professors. I believe that they will be enough to help me get this project rolling. I only hope that I will manage to inspire my fellow actors to pursue this kind of work in the future. I hope that they will discover the beauty of non-hierarchical work, the value of listening to the wants of their ensemble (instead of feeling pressured to constantly 'produce') and I hope that they will enjoy themselves while working with me. Also, please wish me luck with logistical challenges I am facing at the moment because I will need it.
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