Opinion

I find Anne Bogart's avant-garde directing style to be extremely interesting. When implementing her acting methods from A Director Prepares, she works with her actors by finding where they are most vulnerable, then unlocking their hidden potential. This inevitably makes her actors stronger and helps the actor grow as a performer. She states that one must "leap into the void" which I find to be fascinating. Bogart's SITI Company is unlike any other form of training, as it mixes The Suzuki Method, which contains rigorous physical and vocal discipline, while also incorporating "Viewpoints" that articulate the specificity of time and space. To some up her artistic aesthetic, she states that, "Theatre is mostly mimetic, meaning it is embodied. If you’re watching a play, your mirror neurons are actually going wild and doing the same thing as the actors are doing, and your action as an audience is to restrain yourself from doing.” This is what sets theatre a part from other art forms, and she that her goal is to transport these stories through time.