Open Smallsword
Instructors
Root and Gonzalez
Open Smallsword
Instructors
Root and Gonzalez
Open Unarmed
Instructors
Green and Gonzalez
Open Knife
Instructors
Root and Carvey
Open/Beginner Singlesword
Lubke
So, you've just taken your first stage combat workshop, or maybe even gone to the Nationals and gotten some SPTs under your belt. Unfortunately, maybe you don't have steady access to a teacher or even a training partner. What do you do? Do you just let your skills atrophy? Of course not. Come learn some drills and games you can do at home to keep your skills fresh and hone some of the fundamentals.
Open Knife
Green
Knives are dangerous, bananas are not. Mostly. Practice raising the stakes without worrying about anything but a potassium overdose.
Open Unarmed
Girard
Explore the style of unarmed choreography in East/West action films.
Beginner/Open Smallsword
Howard and Gonzalez
The smallsword is regarded by many to be the pinnacle of stage combat performance. This class aims to take a multifaceted approach to make it accessible to students of all levels. From body posture to blade mechanics, the mystique will be broken down and put into manageable elements that allow performers to really dedicate to the violence of the scene.
Open Rapier & Buckler
Maldonado and Lubke
As sources for Historic European Martial Arts continue to become available and more people become knowledgeable about these techniques, there is a desire to add more of these to stage combat. In this class we will use the 16th century Bolognese system of Achille Marozzo, Antonio Manciolino, and Giovanni Dall’Agocchie as a case study in how to take a historic system and translate it to the stage.
Open Unarmed
Green
Ever have to fight your own demon-possessed hand? Hone your acting technique to perform a believable one-person fight
Open Knife
Anderson
This is a practical approach to staging a fight with limited resources, focusing on storytelling rather than complex techniques.