Alexandra Billings Viewpoints Workshop
Viewpoints with Alexandra Billings
Dates: March 29th & 30th
Times: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM both days
Location: Outside In Theatre (5319 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042)
Investment: $375 (non-student) / $325 (student)
Presented in partnership with The Last Acting Studio
Viewpoints Workshop:
Anne Bogart (originator of Viewpoints) says Viewpoints teaches us possibility. It helps us recognize the limitations we impose on ourselves and our art by habitually submitting to a presumed absolute authority, be it the text, the director, the teacher. Viewpoints frees us from the statement: "My character would never do that." In Viewpoints, there is no good or bad, right or wrong—there is only possibility. You are no longer bound by unconsciousness. It awakens all our senses, making it clear how much and how often we live only in our heads and see only through our eyes. Through Viewpoints, we learn to listen with our entire bodies and see with a sixth sense. We receive information from levels we were not even aware existed, and begin to communicate back with equal depth. There are nine viewpoints of time and by their nature, they encourage more risk-taking and bolder choices in acting that are not confined by any particular expectations or a strict process. Through the improvised exploration of Viewpoints, artistic discovery is possible. These Viewpoints are timeless and belong to the natural principles of movement, time and space.
About the Instructor:
Alexandra Billings has been acting since 1968 and has performed across the United States in hundreds of plays and musicals. She’s played everyone from Mama Rose in Gypsyto Mrs. Lynde in A Doll House. Most every stage role is considered to be a first for a transgender actress. Her one-woman autobiographical show, Before I Disappear, toured from Chicago to Boston to Los Angeles, and finally off-Broadway at The Producer’s Club, winning rave reviews and running for over 10 years.
Alexandra teaches Viewpoints through the lens of Stanislavski, Meisner and Uta Hagen. She is the first actor in a lineage of The Viewpoints practice, that begins from originator Anne Bogart, that has realized them to be a common language, more than just physical movement. This intensive is about igniting the actor’s internal life. Starting from self and forming the marriage of one’s own personal history with the imagination of the author of the play. Bringing to fruition; truth under imaginary circumstances through the original voice of the artist. That is the practice. That is the exploration.
Viewpoints with Alexandra Billings
Dates: March 29th & 30th
Times: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM both days
Location: Outside In Theatre (5319 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042)
Investment: $375 (non-student) / $325 (student)
Presented in partnership with The Last Acting Studio
Viewpoints Workshop:
Anne Bogart (originator of Viewpoints) says Viewpoints teaches us possibility. It helps us recognize the limitations we impose on ourselves and our art by habitually submitting to a presumed absolute authority, be it the text, the director, the teacher. Viewpoints frees us from the statement: "My character would never do that." In Viewpoints, there is no good or bad, right or wrong—there is only possibility. You are no longer bound by unconsciousness. It awakens all our senses, making it clear how much and how often we live only in our heads and see only through our eyes. Through Viewpoints, we learn to listen with our entire bodies and see with a sixth sense. We receive information from levels we were not even aware existed, and begin to communicate back with equal depth. There are nine viewpoints of time and by their nature, they encourage more risk-taking and bolder choices in acting that are not confined by any particular expectations or a strict process. Through the improvised exploration of Viewpoints, artistic discovery is possible. These Viewpoints are timeless and belong to the natural principles of movement, time and space.
About the Instructor:
Alexandra Billings has been acting since 1968 and has performed across the United States in hundreds of plays and musicals. She’s played everyone from Mama Rose in Gypsyto Mrs. Lynde in A Doll House. Most every stage role is considered to be a first for a transgender actress. Her one-woman autobiographical show, Before I Disappear, toured from Chicago to Boston to Los Angeles, and finally off-Broadway at The Producer’s Club, winning rave reviews and running for over 10 years.
Alexandra teaches Viewpoints through the lens of Stanislavski, Meisner and Uta Hagen. She is the first actor in a lineage of The Viewpoints practice, that begins from originator Anne Bogart, that has realized them to be a common language, more than just physical movement. This intensive is about igniting the actor’s internal life. Starting from self and forming the marriage of one’s own personal history with the imagination of the author of the play. Bringing to fruition; truth under imaginary circumstances through the original voice of the artist. That is the practice. That is the exploration.
Viewpoints with Alexandra Billings
Dates: March 29th & 30th
Times: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM both days
Location: Outside In Theatre (5319 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042)
Investment: $375 (non-student) / $325 (student)
Presented in partnership with The Last Acting Studio
Viewpoints Workshop:
Anne Bogart (originator of Viewpoints) says Viewpoints teaches us possibility. It helps us recognize the limitations we impose on ourselves and our art by habitually submitting to a presumed absolute authority, be it the text, the director, the teacher. Viewpoints frees us from the statement: "My character would never do that." In Viewpoints, there is no good or bad, right or wrong—there is only possibility. You are no longer bound by unconsciousness. It awakens all our senses, making it clear how much and how often we live only in our heads and see only through our eyes. Through Viewpoints, we learn to listen with our entire bodies and see with a sixth sense. We receive information from levels we were not even aware existed, and begin to communicate back with equal depth. There are nine viewpoints of time and by their nature, they encourage more risk-taking and bolder choices in acting that are not confined by any particular expectations or a strict process. Through the improvised exploration of Viewpoints, artistic discovery is possible. These Viewpoints are timeless and belong to the natural principles of movement, time and space.
About the Instructor:
Alexandra Billings has been acting since 1968 and has performed across the United States in hundreds of plays and musicals. She’s played everyone from Mama Rose in Gypsyto Mrs. Lynde in A Doll House. Most every stage role is considered to be a first for a transgender actress. Her one-woman autobiographical show, Before I Disappear, toured from Chicago to Boston to Los Angeles, and finally off-Broadway at The Producer’s Club, winning rave reviews and running for over 10 years.
Alexandra teaches Viewpoints through the lens of Stanislavski, Meisner and Uta Hagen. She is the first actor in a lineage of The Viewpoints practice, that begins from originator Anne Bogart, that has realized them to be a common language, more than just physical movement. This intensive is about igniting the actor’s internal life. Starting from self and forming the marriage of one’s own personal history with the imagination of the author of the play. Bringing to fruition; truth under imaginary circumstances through the original voice of the artist. That is the practice. That is the exploration.