What is the starting point for collaborative scenic work with criteria that all performers can refer to? How can a collective be creative while communicating in a language that is objective and factual? What is the practical working basis of an ensemble beyond analysis and interpretation, personal taste, and subjective experience? Viewpoints provides practical answers to these questions. It is a working technique that forms a vocabulary from concrete physical parameters of time and space and makes it a shared tool for the ensemble. Viewpoints serves as a foundation for work, an improvisation technique, and a training in perception all at once. It provides performers with concrete tools that they can share, which not only serve training but are also part of the creative process. Anne Bogart, together with Tina Landau, has developed a practical workbook that serves as a foundation and inspiration for applying the Viewpoints technique and introduces the organic systematics of this working method.