Stage Movement and Combat 

Division:  Upper School

Department: Fine and Performing Arts: Theater

Course Title/Code:  Stage Movement and Combat       Art  502

This class is designed to provide the student with an interactive, hands-on look into basic stage combat techniques and movement tools employed by the theater professional.  Students will explore connections between the breath and the body through animal and element imagery and the work of movement theorists Rudolph Laban and Frederick Alexander.  Students will also investigate and master unarmed combat techniques, including falls, slaps, punches, and kicks.  Emphasis will be placed on the choreography of sequences/combinations and the incorporation of combat into text and scene work.  The course will conclude with an introduction to rapier technique.  May be repeated.

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