Visionary director Anne Bogart will teach a Master Class exploring myth and storytelling on February 4, 2016. For this class, Anne asks that you study the myth of Persephone, and come to class with a variety of written versions of the myth, as well as various visuals you may find. This workshop has been designed for Directors, Choreographers and Director/Choreographers at all stages of career.
Anne Bogart is the Co-Artistic Director of SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is the recipient of a Doris Duke Artist Grant, a USA Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Recent works with SITI include Persians, Steel Hammer, A Rite, Café Variations, Trojan Women, American Document, Antigone, Freshwater Under Construction; Who Do You Think You Are; Radio Macbeth; Hotel Cassiopeia; Death and the Ploughman; La Dispute; Score; bobrauschenbergamerica; Room; War of the Worlds; Cabin Pressure; The Radio Play; Alice’s Adventures; Culture of Desire; Bob; Going, Going, Gone; Small Lives/Big Dreams; The Medium; Noel Coward’s Hay Fever and Private Lives; August Strindberg’s Miss Julie; and Charles Mee’s Orestes. Operas include Norma, Carmen, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Nicholas and Alexandra (Los Angeles Opera), Marina: A Captive Spirit (American Opera Projects), and Lilith and Seven Deadly Sins (New York City Opera). Bogart is the author of five books: A Director Prepares, The Viewpoints Book, And Then, You Act, Conversations with Anne and most recently What’s the Story.
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