Suzuki/Viewpoints and SITI in the city
Today I did a free brush up training with the SITI Company (Anne Bogart's Company from New York) for those who have trained with them in the past.
Suzuki/Viewpoints was my first strong introduction to improvisation and group mind. But not only that, this work, this training taught me to look at the world in a wholly different way. As and actor it brought my imagination and creativity to the forefront as we worked text and found everything, even a little plug in the wall, could be inspiration for an amazing piece of work.
Suzuki/Viewpoints showed me Los Angeles in a different light. I found even the "ugliest" parts of it beautiful and I can truthfully say that working in this training is the turning point of Los Angeles being a place that I lived into Los Angeles being home.
Working today awakened the sleeping poet in me. The passion of what drives me as a performer is brought to the forefront and fed.
My body hasn't done this work in over 8 years and it is sore and it hurts but I'm smiling. Amazingly, because of the training being so physical, the rust fell off quickly and my body and mind remembered moves and text I hadn't spoken in eight years.
The body found it's strength too. Even though I'm WAY weaker than I was years ago due to injuries I'm struck by how strong this work makes you. Mentally, Emotionally, Physically. The challenges you overcome with each stomp, struggle for stillness, clean movie, kinesthetic response...make you a stronger actor, artist, and person.
Suzuki and Viewpoints ties together the work I've been doing recently at iO West, the improvisation, with the theatricality of theatre, and the acting work I do on camera. It's a good reminder of what draws the eye. What we, as humans find interesting. Active stillness, shape, our relationship in space with each other and the architecture. The stories we carry as we move or don't move.
...and the LOVE...
Suzuki/Viewpoints was my first strong introduction to improvisation and group mind. But not only that, this work, this training taught me to look at the world in a wholly different way. As and actor it brought my imagination and creativity to the forefront as we worked text and found everything, even a little plug in the wall, could be inspiration for an amazing piece of work.
Suzuki/Viewpoints showed me Los Angeles in a different light. I found even the "ugliest" parts of it beautiful and I can truthfully say that working in this training is the turning point of Los Angeles being a place that I lived into Los Angeles being home.
Working today awakened the sleeping poet in me. The passion of what drives me as a performer is brought to the forefront and fed.
My body hasn't done this work in over 8 years and it is sore and it hurts but I'm smiling. Amazingly, because of the training being so physical, the rust fell off quickly and my body and mind remembered moves and text I hadn't spoken in eight years.
The body found it's strength too. Even though I'm WAY weaker than I was years ago due to injuries I'm struck by how strong this work makes you. Mentally, Emotionally, Physically. The challenges you overcome with each stomp, struggle for stillness, clean movie, kinesthetic response...make you a stronger actor, artist, and person.
Suzuki and Viewpoints ties together the work I've been doing recently at iO West, the improvisation, with the theatricality of theatre, and the acting work I do on camera. It's a good reminder of what draws the eye. What we, as humans find interesting. Active stillness, shape, our relationship in space with each other and the architecture. The stories we carry as we move or don't move.
...and the LOVE...
