Intermediate Unarmed
Instructor
Gagliardi
Description
So you've got your basic falls down. What else can you do? Students should already know and have mastered sit falls and forward falls.
Attack of the Low Budget: Hallway Battle
Intermediate Unarmed/Knife
Instructor
Green
Description
How do you pull off a cast of thousands with a typically-sized theatre cast? Think that sweet Daredevil hallway fight.
Please Try This at Home
Open/Beginner Singlesword
Instructor
Lubke
Description
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.
Fighting in the Clinch
Intermediate Unarmed
Instructor
Lubke
Description
Standup grappling offers us a variety of tools as violent storytellers. This class will focus on the structure of standup grappling positions, the transitions we can use to move between them, and the striking options available when creating distance is no longer our primary safety.
Historical Bolognese Swordplay for Stage
Open Rapier & Buckler
Instructors
Maldonado and Lubke
Description
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.
Push and Shove
Intermediate Unarmed
Instructor
Anderson
Description
A dynamic partnering exercise designed to help you "dial in" your relationship with a fight partner. Students should have experience with basic falls, rolls, tumbling.
Twisterbuckling
Intermediate Singlesword
Instructor
Green
Description
Twister is a game of physical skill where players will often be required to put themselves in unlikely or precarious positions. Twisterbuckling is a game of the same nature, only... with swords. Using a Twister mat and stock Single Sword phrases, this class explores small space usage, how intentions play a huge part in telling a story, and the vital importance of communication.