Mary Overlie (January 15, 1946 – June 5, 2020) was an American choreographer, dancer, theater artist, professor, author, and the originator of the Six Viewpoints technique for theater and dance. The Six

Viewpoints Viewpoints is a movement-based pedagogical and artistic practice that provides a framework for creating and analyzing performance by exploring spatial relationships, shape, time, emotion, movement mechanics, and the materiality of the actor's body ...

technique is both a philosophical articulation of postmodern performance and a teaching system addressing directing, choreographing, dancing, acting, improvisation, and performance analysis. The Six Viewpoints has been taught in the core curriculum of the Experimental Theater Wing within Tisch School of the Arts at New York University since its inception (1978). Overlie was the co-founder of several long lasting art institutions such as

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, the Studies Project, Movement Research, and the Experimental Theater Wing at

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. Her choreography, both solo and for Mary Overlie Dance Company (1978-1986), has toured extensively through Europe and has been performed in New York at the Holly Solomon Gallery,

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Center for Music, Video and Dance, St. Mark's Danspace,

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and numerous lofts in New York. Overlie received two Bessie Achievement Awards, the first for creating the Studies Project, shared with Wendell Beavers, and the latter for her life-time contribution to dance. She collaborated with

Lee Breuer Esser Leopold "Lee" Breuer (February 6, 1937 – January 3, 2021) was an Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer-, Grammy-, Emmy- and Tony-nominated American playwright, theater director, academic, educator, filmmaker, poet, and lyricist. Breuer taugh ...

JoAnne Akalaitis JoAnne Akalaitis (born June 29, 1937, in Cicero, Illinois) is an avant-garde American theatre director and writer. She has won five Obie Awards for direction (and sustained achievement) and was a co-founder of the New York theater company Mabou ...

David Warrilow David Warrilow (28 December 1934 – 17 August 1995) was an English actor best known as one of the "finest interpreters of Samuel Beckett’s work".Cited in Ackerley, C.J., and Gontarski, Stan, ''The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett'', New York ...

Ruth Maleczech Ruth Sophia Reinprecht (January 8, 1939 – September 30, 2013), professionally known as Ruth Maleczech, was an American avant-garde stage actress.Anne Bogart Anne Bogart (born September 25, 1951) is an American theatre and opera director. She is currently one of the artistic directors of SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a professor at Columbia Uni ...

Yvonne Rainer Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is regarded as challenging and experimental.

, and

Barbara Dilley Barbara Dilley (Lloyd) (born 1938) is an American dancer, performance artist, improvisor, choreographer and educator, best known for her work as a prominent member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (1963–1968), and then with the groundbreakin ...

Life and career

1950-1960s

Mary Overlie was born in Eastern Montana. She moved to Bozeman at the age of six, where she came under the influence of

Gennie DeWeese Genevieve "Gennie" DeWeese (née Adams; January 10, 1921 – November 26, 2007) was a modernist painter and prominent member of the art community in Bozeman, Montana. Gennie and her husband, Robert "Bob" DeWeese were notable for the major role ...

(d. 2007), and Robert DeWeese (d.1990). As

modernist Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

painters, Gennie and Robert DeWeese were notable and influential members of the development of the Montana contemporary arts community, which included potters Rudy Autio and

Peter Voulkos Peter Voulkos (born Panagiotis Harry Voulkos; 29 January 1924 – 16 February 2002) was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his abstract expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic c ...

, sculptors James Reineking and

Deborah Butterfield Deborah Kay Butterfield (born May 7, 1949) is an American sculptor. Along with her artist-husband John Buck, she divides her time between a farm in Bozeman, Montana, and studio space in Hawaii. She is known for her sculptures of horses made fr ...

, and writer Robert Pirsig of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. For Overlie, Montana's raw and minimal landscape combined with her relationship to Robert and Gennie DeWeese inspired her inquiry into the materials of performance. The question "what are dance and theater made of?", would over the years develop into the Six Viewpoints, Overlie's technical language to discuss the artistic form of performance parallel to the specific language used to describe painting.Overlie, Mary. Standing in Space Press Release. November 2016. Overlie began her dance training in ballet and improvisation with teacher Harvey Jung (former member of New York Opera Ballet Company) in Robert DeWeese's studio on Main Street in Bozeman. Throughout her teens, Overlie studied theater, dance, and visual art and immersed herself in the Montana arts community until in 1962 she moved to Berkeley, California by way of freight train. In the Bay Area of California and at

Connecticut College Connecticut College (Conn) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in New London, Connecticut. Originally chartered as Thames College, it was founded in 1911 as the state's only women's colle ...

, Overlie studied

Martha Graham Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer, teacher and choreographer, whose style, the Graham technique, reshaped the dance world and is still taught in academies worldwide. Graham danced and taught for over s ...

technique with David Wood,

Merce Cunningham Mercier Philip "Merce" Cunningham (April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009) was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of American modern dance for more than 50 years. He frequently collaborated with artists of other discipl ...

technique with Margaret Jenkins, and

José Limón José Arcadio Limón (January 12, 1908 – December 2, 1972) was a dancer and choreographer from Mexico and who developed what is now known as 'Limón technique'. In the 1940s, he founded the José Limón Dance Company (now the Limón Dan ...

technique with Anne Swearingen and Betty Jones. Additionally, Overlie studied Transcendental Meditation with

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (born Mahesh Prasad Varma, 12 January 191? – 5 February 2008) was the creator of Transcendental Meditation (TM) and leader of the worldwide organization that has been characterized in multiple ways, including as a new ...

, becoming a Transcendental Meditation teacher in 1968. The teachings of Transcendental Meditation would later influence the philosophical foundations of the Six Viewpoints, specifically as a process of refinement for conscious awareness During her years in San Francisco, Overlie danced with the Anne Swearingen Dance Company, the Teresa Dickensen Dance Company, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and the Jan Lapiner Dance Company. She later performed in works choreographed by

Yvonne Rainer Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is regarded as challenging and experimental.

and

, founders of the Grand Union.

1970-1980s

In 1969, Dilley invited Overlie to make a performance for the

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in New York City as a part of her improvisational dance company, Natural History of the American Dancer. Overlie arrived in SoHo in January 1970 while assisting

Yvonne Rainer Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934) is an American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is regarded as challenging and experimental.

in her research and workshop tour in preparation for Rainer's film ''Lulu''. Overlie continued as a member of the Natural History of the American Dancer with Carmen Beauchat, Cynthia Hedstrom, Judy Padow, Rachel Lew and Suzanne Harris from 1970 to 1975. The company performed at The Whitney Museum, 112 Greene St. Gallery, Ornette Coleman's Artist's House,

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, Bennington College, Oberlin College and other venues. In 1972, Overlie began experimenting with the early explorations of

Steve Paxton Steven Douglas Paxton (January 21, 1939 – February 20, 2024) was an American experimental dancer and choreographer. His early background was in gymnastics while his later training included three years with Merce Cunningham and a year with Jos� ...

, founder of

Contact Improvisation Contact Improvisation (CI) is a postmodern dance practice that explores movement through shared weight, touch, and physical awareness. Originating in the United States in 1972, contact improvisation was developed by dancer and choreographer Steve ...

. From 1975 to 1979, Overlie danced with the Judy Padow Dance Company before she started her own company and work as a soloist. In 1974, Overlie cofounded

, a dance-presenting organization, at

St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery is a parish of the Episcopal Church at 131 East 10th Street (near Stuyvesant Street and Second Avenue) in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The property has been the site of continuo ...

with New York School poet

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and choreographer Barbara Dilley. In 1977, Overlie choreographed and performed ''Window Pieces'', ''Glassed Imaginations'' and ''Glassed Imaginations II'' at the

Holly Solomon Gallery Holly Solomon Gallery opened in New York City in 1975 at 392 West Broadway in Soho, Manhattan. Started by Holly Solomon - aspiring actress, style-icon, and collector - and her husband Horace Solomon, the gallery was initially known for launching ...

, 112 Greene Street, Manhattan. The pieces were performed in the storefront windows of the gallery to audiences on the sidewalk of New York's SoHo neighborhood. Ron Argelander invited her to join him as the first teacher of the Experimental Theater Wing of

Tisch School of the Arts The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (commonly referred to as Tisch) is the performing, cinematic, and media arts school of New York University. Founded on August 17, 1965, as the School of the Arts at New York University, Tisch ...

Sylvère Lotringer Sylvère Lotringer (15 October 1938 – 8 November 2021) was a French-born literary critic and cultural theorist. Initially based in New York City, he later lived in Los Angeles and Baja California, Mexico.Hultkrans, Andrew"Bookforum talks with ...

interviewed Overlie for

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edition ''Notes on the Schizo-Culture Issue'' (1979) alongside Jack Smith,

Philip Glass Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimal music, minimalism, being built up fr ...

Michel Foucault Paul-Michel Foucault ( , ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French History of ideas, historian of ideas and Philosophy, philosopher who was also an author, Literary criticism, literary critic, Activism, political activist, and teacher. Fo ...

Gilles Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes o ...

, Robert Wilson,

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and other leading philosophers and artists "that had already devoted their thought to the perpetual collapsing of borders." This interview posited Overlie as notable exponent of post-modernism. The Mary Overlie Dance Company (founded 1978), included original members Paul Langland, Wendell Beavers, and Nina Martin. The company performed Overlie's choreographies, some notable works include: ''Painter's Dream'' (1978), Hero (1979) partially scored by

Laurie Anderson Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, musician and filmmaker whose work encompasses performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and sculpting,Amirkhanian, Cha ...

, ''History'' (1983) and ''Wallpaper'' (1983), all performed at

. ''Adam and Eve'' (1983) presented at

, and The Figure (1979) performed at the

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...

. In 1978, Overlie co-founded "The School for Movement Research & Construction", now

Movement Research Movement Research is a non-profit organization based in New York City that offers dance classes, workshops, residencies and performance opportunities for artists. It is dedicated to the implementation of free and low-cost programs geared towards exp ...

, a non-profit organization that offers dance classes, workshops, residencies and performance opportunities for artists in

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. Its focus is on improvisation, post-modern dance, and experimentatio
About Us
Seminal to Overlie's career is an enduring association with

Mabou Mines Mabou Mines is an experimental theatre company founded in 1970 and based in New York City. Founding and history Mabou Mines was founded by David Warrilow, Lee Breuer, Ruth Maleczech, JoAnne Akalaitis, and Philip Glass, at the house of Akalaiti ...

Theater Company. She contributed choreography and staging for director

's ''Saint and the Football Players'' (1974),

's ''The Lost Ones'' (1979), written for him by

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and presented at

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, and Red Beads (2000) presented at

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. Her work with Mabou Mines also included collaborations with director

on the theatrical productions ''Cascando'' (1977), ''Dressed Like an Egg'' (1978), and ''Dead End Kids'' (1983) at The Public Theater. Other notable stage collaborations included those with

Anne Bogart Anne Bogart (born September 25, 1951) is an American theatre and opera director. She is currently one of the artistic directors of SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a professor at Columbia Uni ...

, founder of the

SITI Company The Saratoga International Theater Institute (also known as SITI) was an ensemble-based theater company based in New York City and Saratoga Springs, New York. SITI was founded in 1992 by American director Anne Bogart and Japanese director Ta ...

, on the productions ''Artouist'' (1984) and ''South Pacific'' (1986). Via these collaborations, she introduced Bogart to the Six Viewpoints, which Bogart later adapted to design the training and directorial work of the SITI Company.

Late 1980s and 1990s

From 1984 through 1998, Overlie was working in Europe as an educator, choreographer and performer. She was the director of the Experimental Theater Wing Paris program from 1985 to 1987 and by invitation oversaw the creation of the Pro Series Internationale Tanz Wochen Wien in Vienna, Austria (1989) where she met and organized workshops taught by

Susanne Linke Susanne Linke (born 19 June 1944) is an internationally renowned German dancer and choreographer who is one of the major innovators of German Tanztheater, along with Pina Bausch and Reinhild Hoffmann. Family Susanne Linke was born in Lüneburg ...

Karine Saporta Karine Saporta is a French choreographer, dancer, photographer, and short film director. She is one of the most prominent figures in French dance. Saporta was born in France to a mother of Russian ancestry and a Spanish father. She began dancing ...

, Ismael Ivo, and

among others. The Pro Series, now called ImPulsTanz Festival, invites world-renowned choreographers to teach workshops and choreograph experimental works in progress on students of the Internationale Tanz Wochen Wien. She was a resident choreographer at ETW Paris, where she developed Skies over America (1986) and at the European Dance Development Center in Arnhem, Holland, where she developed ''Country'' (1992) and ''Dances for Prepared Bodies'' (1996). She toured performing her solo-pieces ''Small Dance'' (1989), ''History'' (1997), and ''Location of Love'' (1998), and worked as a freelance teacher in France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Austria, and the Netherlands. Overlie continued to perform in New York in an improvisation ensemble alongside Wendell Beavers and Paul Langland. They performed their work at Danspace, St. Mark's Church, New York Judson Church, Columbia University, Simone Forti Studio, Francis Alenikoff Studio, and Eden's Expressway among others from 1987 to 2001. Some of their works include: ''No Angels, No Apes'' (1993), ''Wallpaper'' (1999) and ''Rooms and Buildings'' (2001). Overlie was awarded the 1999 Bessie Achievement Award, for her lifetime contribution to dance, "For a pallet-and-knife architecture of the choreographic canvas, a Sustained Achievement in luminous formalism concerning the body's place in time and space, a stillness drawn by the eye around the moving form, as elegantly represented in ''Small Dance / Locations of Love''".

2000s

In January 1998, a national conference on the Viewpoints was held in New York, sponsored by New York University, Pace University and Stage Directors and Choreographer Foundation. Overlie founded the Six Viewpoints Studio at Tisch School for the Arts in 2006 and continued teaching at The Experimental Theater Wing until 2015 when she retired and moved to

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2010s

After twenty years of working on the manuscript for the Six Viewpoints, Overlie completed and self-published ''Standing in Space: Six Viewpoints Theory and Practice'' in 2016. She resided in

, taught workshops in America and Europe and was organizing an advanced Six Viewpoints School.

The Six Viewpoints

Introduction and overview

The Six Viewpoints is a philosophical and practical approach to articulate a post-modern perspective on performance. The practice involves deconstructing the physical stage and physical performance into its six Materials of composition: Space, Shape, Time, Emotion, Movement and Story. These six elements have existed historically within a rigid hierarchy which gives prevalence to story and emotion in theatre, and shape and movement in dance. The Six Viewpoints releases the Materials from this fixed construct into a fluid non-hierarchical environment for re-examination. The act of deconstructing performance into its six materials invites the performer, director, artist to engage with the individual materials "allowing these elements to take the lead in a creative dialogue". For Overlie, this shift in attention re-defines art and the role of the artist from a "creator/originator" mindset to what she called the "observer/participant", which centers on "witnessing, and interacting, ... working under the supposition that structure could be discerned rather than imposed". Overlie observed this redefinition of the artist's endeavor to correspond with the artistic shift from modernism to post-modernism. The theory and practice of the Six Viewpoints are organized in two parts: The Materials and The Bridge.

The Materials (SSTEMS)

When working with the materials, the artist is instructed to turn off the impulse to control or own the material, and is challenged to work very specifically with each material as an independent entity. Overlie recommends the artist to gather as much "useless" data as they can and to take time to explore.

The seed of the entire work of The Six Viewpoints is found in the simple act of standing in space. From this perspective the artist is invited to read and be educated by the lexicon of daily experience. The information of space, the experience of time, the familiarity of shapes, the qualities and rules of kinetics in movement, the ways of logic, how stories are formed, the states of being and emotional exchanges that constitute the process of communication between living creatures ... Working directly with these materials the artist begins to learn of performance through the essential languages as an independent intelligence (Overlie).

The six materials of composition, referred to with the acronym SSTEMS, are: ; S (Space) : Space contains blocking, placement of furniture, placement of the walls, doors and windows, angle of gaze, distance of projection, and spatial alignment of the actors to the proscenium, to the audience and to each other. ; S (Shape) : Shape contains geometry, costumes, gestures, and the shape of the actors' bodies and of all the objects onstage. ; T (Time) : Time contains duration, rhythm, punctuation, pattern, impulse, repetition, legato, pizzicato, lyrical. ; E (Emotion) : Emotion contains presence, anger, laughter, pensiveness, empathy, alienation, romance, pity, fear, anticipation, etc. ; M (Movement) : Movement contains falling, walking, running, blood pumping, breath, suspension, contraction, impact. ; S (Story) : Story contains logic, order and progression of information, memory, projection, conclusion, allusions, truth, lies, associations, influences, power, weakness, reification, un-reification, constructions and deconstruction.

The Bridge

The Bridge is a sequence of nine laboratories that function as philosophical and pedagogical frameworks in which to engage with the materials. The Bridge presents the origins of the Viewpoints' approach to art and introduces into practice the philosophical concepts that are used to disintegrate and then reintegrate performance. The nine laboratories of The Bridge are: * News of a Difference, Noticing Difference in Increasing Levels of Subtlety * Deconstruction, Investigating Theater by Separating the Components of its Structure * The Horizontal, Nonhierarchical Composition * Post-modernism, The Philosophical Foundation * Reification, A Reflection on Creativity, Communication, and Language * The Piano, The Interface between Artist and Audience * The Matrix, The Ingredients are in the Cauldron * Doing the Unnecessary, The SSTEMS Dissolve * The Original Anarchist, A New and a Very Old Idea As a practice at large, The Six Viewpoints "is dedicated to reading the stage as a force of Nature"

Works

Choreography

*2012 Basin Arts Refuge. Basin Montana - "The Bunny Tail Range" *2009 New Museum, New York Movement Research Spring Festival 2009: "Fellini World" *1998 NYU/Tisch Theater, New York - "We Have Nothing To Say and We Are Saying It" *1998 Danspace at St. Mark's Church, New York - "Location Of Love" *1998 Burgh Theater, Vienna - "Location of Love" *1997 Concert Hall, Arnhem - "Remake of History" *1996 EDDC, Arnhem and a tour of Germany - "Dances For Prepared Bodies" *1995 Eden's Express Way, New York - "No Angels No Apes", "Glassed Imaginations" *1992 EDDC, Arnhem - "Country" *1990 The Kitchen, New York - "Flight of Desire" *1989 International Tanz Wochen Wien - "Small Dance II" *1988 The Kitchen Center, New York - "Blind Bird Box Dance", "The Muses" *1987 Outdoor Montana - "Prairie Dance" *1987 Outdoor Paris - improvisation ensemble *1987 Experimental Theater Wing, Paris - "The Restaurant" *1986 Espace Kiron, Paris - Solo Repertory, "Skies over America" *1984 Danspace, St. Mark's Church, New York - "Small Dance", "Richard Serra Dance", "Tap Dance" *1983 American Center, Paris - Repertory *1983 The Kitchen Center, New York - "Hero II", "History", "Wallpaper II" *1981 Dance Theater Workshop, New York - "Adam and Eve" *1980 Vehicle Gallery, Montreal - "Swan Literary Duet" *1980 New York University, New York - "Wallpaper", "Paper Waltz" *1979 Museum of Modern Art, New York - "The Figure II" *1979 The Kitchen Center, New York - "Hero" *1978 Museum of Modern Art, New York - "The Figure" *1978 The Kitchen Center, New York - Painters Dream" *1977 Bunch Festival, Intermedia Theater, New York - "Possibility of Personal Failure", "Flower Garden" *1977 Robert Freidus Gallery, New York - "Cartoon Coordinations" *1977 Holly Solomon Gallery, New York - "Window Pieces", "Glassed Imaginations II", "Glassed Imaginations" *1976 St. Mark's Church, New York - "Adam", "To Be Announced", "Wash", "Small Dance" *1972 Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley - "Free Delivery"

Collaboration / dance

*1993- 2001 Wendell Beavers, Paul Langland; Danspace, St. Mark's Church, New York Judson Church, Columbia University, Simon Forti Studio, Francis Alenikoff Studio *1993 Cathy Weiss; European Dance Development Center, Arnhem - Video Dance Project *1993 Wendell Beavers, Paul Langland; Eden's Expressway, New York - Improvisation *1988 Paul Langland; Performance Festival School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam - "Coffee" Paul Langland *1988 Wendell Beavers, Paul Langland; Performance Festival School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam - Improvisation *1979 Contact Community; St. Mark's Church, New York - Contact Concert *1977 Daniel Lepkoff, Christine Svane, members of the Contact community; Paula Cooper Gallery, New York - Improvisation, Contact Concert, "Where", "With Whom" *1974 The Natural History; St. Mark's Church, New York - Improvisation *1974 Rachel Lew, Cynthia Hedstrom; Artists House, New York - "Falling" *1973 The Natural History; Artists House, New York - Improvisation *1973 The Natural History; Emma Willard School, New York - Improvisation *1973 The Natural History; Rutgers University, New Brunswick - Improvisation *1973 The Natural History; Dance Circle, Boston - Improvisation *1972 Jani Novak; The Fire House, San Francisco - "Mabeline" *1972 The Natural History; The Whitney Museum, New York - Improvisation *1972 The Natural History; Bennington College, Bennington - Improvisation *1972 The Natural History; Kirkland Art Centre, New York - Improvisation *1972 Lincoln Scott; PLACE, New York - "Raft" *1972 Grand Union Performance; 122, Green St. Gallery, New York *1971 Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith; Castelli Gallery, New York - First Contact Concert

Collaboration / theater

*1999-2000 Lee Breuer, Mass Moca; Massachusetts - "Red Beads" *1986 Anne Bogart; New York University, New York - "South Pacific": Bessie Award *1985 Lawrence Sacrow; Lama, New York - "Madness of the Day" * *1984 Anne Bogart; on location in New York City - "Artouist" *1983 JoAnne Akalaitis; Public Theater, New York - "Dead End Kids" * *1979 Lee Breuer, David Warrilow; Public Theater, New York - "The Lost Ones" *1978 Joanne Akalaitis; Public Theater, New York - "Dressed Like An Egg" * *1977 Joanne Akalaitis; Public Theater, New York - "Cascando" *1975 Lee Breuer, Mabou Mines; Connecticut College, New London - "Saint and the Football Players" * *These productions were awarded

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Awards and honors

*1998 Bessie Achievement Award, for lifetime contribution to dance *1995 Arnhem City Council Grant, "On Site Arnhem" *1989 Danish Cultural Ministry, "Project Grant" *1986 NEA/Dance, choreographic fellowship grant *1984 Bessie Achievement Award, for creation of the Studies Project of Movement Research *1979 Caps Grant

Publications

*1980. ''Mary Overlie: A Letter''. Dance Scope 14 (4):30-34. *1998. ''The Six View Points Theory.'' The Journal for Stage Directors & Choreographers 12 (1):38. *2006. ''The Six Viewpoints''. In Training of the American actor, edited by Arthur Bartow, 187-221. New York: Theatre Communications Group. *2008. ''Shaping the Independent Actor''. In American Theatre, edited by Ellen Orensetin. *2016. ''Standing in Space: The Six Viewpoints Theory & Practice.'' Billings, MT: Self-published.

References

External links

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Life and career

1950-1960s

1970-1980s

Late 1980s and 1990s

2000s

2010s

The Six Viewpoints

Introduction and overview

The Materials (SSTEMS)

The Bridge

Works

Choreography

Collaboration / dance

Collaboration / theater

Awards and honors

Publications

See also

References

Further reading

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