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STAGE COMBAT DEFINED
Stage combat is an artistic presentation of violence in a theatrical environment. It is violence based on the principles of reality, masked by specific techniques that make the actions safe for the performers, in which the audience perceives the violent act as reality. The violent event is designed to enhance and continue the narrative of a theatrical event.
A fight director is responsible for all aspects of violence within a theatrical event. This can be something as simple as a fall onstage to something as complicated as gang fights in "West Side Story."
The fight director works directly under the director of a production and is responsible for keeping that director's vision intact. A fight director generally needs a background in aspects of martial arts, both Eastern and Western European, knowledge of theatrical performance techniques, and artistic integrity.
To learn the skills of being a safe and effective performer of violence in a theatrical environment, a student of Stage Combat must be taught the skills needed in a carefully thought out, pedagogical method, that is adaptable to the individuals specific needs and physical abilities.
Those who teach, do.
Researching, writing, and performing of original or established pieces for an audience is one of highlights of being involved in stage combat.
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SERVICES
We provide expertise in stage combat performance and direction. We coordinate event requiring, or enhanced by, stage combat.
We want your next action-packed event to be entertaining, exciting and even enlightening.
Imagine these practical applications: knights in armor, renaissance nobles, the Three Musketeers, pirates, Zorro, Robin Hood, highlanders, warrior princesses, fantasy characters, gladiators, gamblers, angry cooks, dueling gentlemen, dangerous liaisons, cowboy gunfighters and many more.
We specialize in bar room brawls, pratt falls, swordfighting, commandos, period boxing, secret agent intrigue, firearms, gunfights, martial arts, action drama and commedia dell'arte, from all eras.
Give us your idea and we'll run with it, fall with it, laugh with it, fight with it, love it and give it back to you just - if not better than - the way you expect it.
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YOU HAVE SEEN US
Places you have seen our expertise in action...
Shakespeare and Page to Stage, Calaveras Repertory Theater
The Duelists, The Fight Guy
Celebrate History 1998 (Event Safety Coordinator), Celebrate History
Operation No Penetration Lysistrata 97, Golden Thread Productions
Macbeth, Milpitas High School
The Present, Campana Films
The Shannon Doyle Incident, Theater Artists of Marin
American Artifacts-The Award, Go Play
American Buffalo, Genesis Theater Co. & Pour Boys Prod.
Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Phoenix Theater Company
Marisol, Eureka Theater Company
A Streetcar Named Desire, Phoenix Theater Company
Hunger, Brava Theater - Women in the Arts
Gold Rush San Francisco (Event Fight Master), Timegames Inc.
Hamlet, Phoenix Theater Company
Othello, Canada College Theater Dept.
Psycho Monkey on Planet Earth, Psycho Monkey Prod.
Brilliant Traces, Encore Theater Company
Conversations with my Father, Theater works
Burn This, Kudzu Theater Company
Orphans, Production Arts Workshop
Primus - Mr. Krinkle, Big Pictures
La Ronde 2, London Pacific Theater Co.
Mysteries of the Bell Mansion, A Party to Intrigue
The Detectives Club, A Party to Intrigue
Angel Island Treasure Hunt, A Party to Intrigue
Commedia on Broadway, Tutti Frutti Commedia Co.
Proof, Base Surge Prod.
Crummels's Nutcracker, Living History Center
Commedia Sgarbata (1993), Living History Center
Commedia Sgarbata (1992), Living History Center
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