July 26th - 31st
Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
The Stage Combat Intensive Course is just one of the many week-long "A La Carte" elective courses offered by the Ashland Center for Theatre Studies, where you can earn your Masters in Theatre Studies in Production and Design over three summers!
The Stage Combat Intensive is a week-long, 3-credit, graduate level course geared toward high school and community college theatre educators, covering an introduction to stage combat basics and choreographic techniques:
- Learn physical warm-ups from akido, yoga, and other disciplines
- Discover trust, safety, partnering, and distance exercises
- Develop basic hand-to-hand combat skills
- Get a taste of partnered, armed-combat work
- Explore how to act a fight and add realistic vocalizations during a stage fight
- Build choreography skills while creating your own stylized and non-realistic fights
- Investigate ways to use a fight director as part of the design team
- Discuss special issues such as young performers, red-light fever, kills, mass battles and brawls, blood, and specific contemporary and period plays
- Address safety, liability issues, weapon selection and maintenance, and qualifications and certifications of fight directors
- View and analyze Oregon Shakespeare Festival productions of The Servant of Two Masters and Macbeth
Chris Duval
Maggie McClellan
