Summer 2009Stage Combat (Grades: 4-8)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. Prerequisite(s):
Instructor: Arte Whyte
Arte L. Whyte has performed in movies, commercials, industrials, street theater and on stage. He has worked with Universal Studios, Nickelodeon, The Royal Shakespeare Company, ILM and Apple Computer. He has been teaching children acting, production and technical theatre for the last 24 years. A graduate of the Drama Studio London at UC Berkeley and certified by the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD) he has started after school children's programs throughout Sonoma, Marin, Alameda and Richmond Counties. Arte is a founding member of the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center and has coordinated their Young Performers Theatre.
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