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Planting Seeds

Sep 12, 2022 | Anne Bogart
I am constantly surprised by and reminded of how little control I actually exert over the unfolding events of my own life. My best intentions are often hijacked by distraction.
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Tracks

Aug 15, 2022 | Anne Bogart
"The artist's work is to lift people out of their usual sense of their own cosmos into a higher vision of what's going on up there." ~Peter Sellars
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Problem, Objective, Task

Jul 19, 2022 | Anne Bogart
“If you want to paint anything worthwhile you shouldn’t be afraid of stepping up the pressure.“ -David Hockney Konstantin Stanislavsky did not have a high opinion of his own writing. The… more
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The Usefulness of Doubt

Apr 14, 2022 | Anne Bogart
"As a writer I exist in a constant state of doubt, and this is not the impediment to my art, it’s the precondition of it." -Stacy D’Erasmo
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Still Under Construction

Mar 15, 2022 | Anne Bogart
About five years ago, the members of SITI Company began to ask a difficult question: are we an institution or are we a company? What is the future of SITI?  Should it continue indefinitely under… more
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I, Too, Am Ebenezer

Dec 07, 2021 | Anne Bogart
This month SITI Company is in rehearsals for a brand-new production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.  The look of surprise on peoples’ faces when I say that our next production is A… more
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Secret Messages in Service of Hope

Nov 09, 2021 | Anne Bogart
In September of 1970, at the age of 19, I traveled to Athens, Greece to spend a year studying archeology, Greek history, ancient Greek theater, and modern Greek language. At the time, Greece was ruled… more
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Theatre 2.0

Sep 21, 2021 | Anne Bogart
On Memorial Day weekend, for the first time in a year and a half, I attended the theater.
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Technology

Aug 09, 2021 | Anne Bogart
In 1993, very early on in SITI Company’s 30-year history, I proposed a project that would ask the question “Who are we becoming in light of the emerging technologies?”  The result became SITI… more
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To Zoom or Not to Zoom?

Jul 08, 2021 | Anne Bogart
Over the past fifteen months, SITI Company’s brilliant administrative leadership found the necessary funds to allow SITI Company actors and designers to engage in what we call Work/Space, which are… more
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The Art of Resonance.

Jun 14, 2021 | Anne Bogart
In September, my new book, The Art of Resonance, will be published by Methuen/Bloomsbury. This past May I spent several days in a recording studio in London speaking the book into audio existence for… more
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The Tentpoles of Our Future

Aug 14, 2020 | Anne Bogart
I travelled from New York to London on March 11, 2020 carrying a small suitcase and expecting to stay for one week with my wife Rena.  Now it is mid-August and I am still in the UK with no idea about… more
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Don’t Miss It

Jun 25, 2020 | Will Bond
All philosophical problems are linguistic confusion - Ludwig Wittgenstein Some years ago, my long time friend and SITI Company member Leon described  an idea for a book he wanted to make. It was a… more
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The Illusion of Control

May 11, 2020 | Anne Bogart
But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he’s most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the… more
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Metaphor

Dec 15, 2022 | Anne Bogart
I share an ongoing friendly debate with Elizabeth Streb, the remarkable creative force behind the STREB Extreme Action Company.  She insists that she does not use metaphor in her work. I try to… more
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World-Making

Nov 15, 2022 | Anne Bogart
I grew up in a Navy family and almost every year we packed up and moved to another state, sometimes even to another country.