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Fight
Workshops and Choreography
Safe
and affordable tuition for both professionals and amateurs
alike. Workshops can be tailor-made to your exact needs. From
a 2 hour class to a 20 week certification course, SWORDPLAY
will help you explore all aspects of stage combat. Perfect
for stage schools, secondary schools, universities, theatre
companies and individual actors.
Stage
Combat is an incredibly important skill to learn for those
interested in the Performing Arts. It improves imagination
and concentration, teaches communication and control, increases
physical attributes, and is also great fun. It is an ideal
device to use when exploring many texts and plays, and SWORDPLAY
often runs workshops as part of a conflict resolution or anti-bullying
campaign. For all amateur and professional actors it is an
extremely important and very marketable skill to possess!
Tailor
Made Workshops are available for:
• professional and amateur actors: distinguish
yourself from the competition and increase your marketability
by adding stage combat onto your CV;
• theatre venues and theatre companies: SWORDPLAY
will run fight rehearsals and create choreography for any
theatrical performance, allowing your actors to create safe
and exciting fights night after night;
• drama schools and stage schools: tailor-made
packages for your budding actors;
• secondary schools: Workshops have been created
using advice from the DFES and following 'visions of an art
college' guidance. SWORDPLAY will create a tailor-made workshop
focused on the dramatic action of any text or play that your
students are currently studying. Alternatively just book an
Introduction To Stage Combat workshop. SWORDPLAY can
also choreograph fight scenes for school plays.
Workshops
are tailor-made to ensure the maximum benefit can be achieved.
Sample Workshops include:
Film
Fights: A Workshop based on the movie theme of your
choice; explore and recreate fight scenes from action adventures
such as the Bond films, Bourne films, 'Pirates of The Caribbean'
and 'Lord of the Rings'.
Unarmed
Fights: This workshop will teach you how to punch,
kick, strangle, fall, head butt,hair pull and much more, at
all times safely and under expert tuition.
Shakespeare:
Shakespeare was caught in a public affray, sword in hand,
Marlow was a notorious duelist, Johnson killed one of his
actors in a duel. With so much fighting in the streets and
taverns Shakespeare's plays are full of references to swords
and swordfighting. Explore Shakespeare's characters and Elizabethan
society by creating exciting fight choreography.
Swashbuckling:
A workshop full of swashbuckling action! Using broadswords
and bucklers, quarterstaffs and single rapiers, learn how
to be a swaggering swordsman yourself, cut, thrust, and parry!
Firearms:
Taught by Professional Firearms Trainers this workshop will
teach you the basics of safe loading and unloading, handling,
stances, tactical communication and stripping and assembling.
Then move on to scenario based drills and of course the chance
to fire a Blank firing pistol.
Breakables:
Create your own scenes using breakable glass bottles, glasses
ashtrays and much more!
Certification
Courses: Train for your SWORDPLAY combat qualification.
SWORDPLAY provide certification for numerous stage schools
, exclusively for a number of London agents and casting directors,
for National Drama, LONSAS, and will be recognised by any
casting organisation or employer.
Cost:
workshops cost £300 per day. Call or email for prices
for shorter workshops.
N.B SWORDPLAY will negotiate with educational facilities regarding
prices to enable all those interested to study Stage Combat.
Now Booking:
SWORDPLAY
workshops at the Sunshine Studio's Manchester Sat 29'th November:
Places still available.
SWORDPLAY
workshops at the Abraham Moss Leisure Centre- Fully Booked
SWORDPLAY
workshops at the Landmark Arts Centre- Fully Booked
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