Summer 2009
Stage Combat (Grades 5-8)
How do stage and film actors perform the fist and sword fighting you see in movies and on stage? How can Superman knock a man across the room with a slight push of his hands or Jackie Chan defeat an entire room of bad guys, dodge knives and never be out of breath? Here is your chance to find out. Stage Combat offers a two-week experience in the basic art of hand-to-hand combat. Explore a variety of professional theater fight moves like slaps, punches, hair pulls, head slams and more. All techniques are safely and carefully choreographed within the boundaries as put forth by the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD). Discuss how this type of choreography is performed in films, learn various improvisation games, articulation skills and use your imagination to create fun characters in controlled scene settings. All this leads to the last class where you will perform staged fight scenes with your newly acquired improvisation and combat techniques.
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