Class List *Contact José for Pricing and Class Length *Classes offered for both groups and individuals
Stage Combat: Unarmed
Class Description: This class teaches the essential techniques to understand and perform unarmed fight choreography for the stage. Students will be taught the basic vocabulary of slaps, chokes, hair-pulls, punches, rolls, and kicks. Students will also be taught how to use their breath, voice, body language, and partnering to "sell" the violence. Advanced techniques such as lift chokes, combination contact strikes, and eye gouging will be covered if the collective skill level of the class is adequate. Students will be given choreography to learn and make their own by applying a scene of their choosing.
Stage Combat: Broadsword
Class Description: This class teaches the essentials of swordplay for the stage as well as the specific techniques vital to broadsword choreography. Students will be taught the Parry system as well as how to properly cast a cut with the sword. Emphasis on the combatants movement with the blade; time will be spent helping students to make the sword a part of their moving body. Students will be given choreography to learn and make their own by applying a scene of their choosing.
Stage Combat: Found Weapons
Class Description: Love the Bourne series? Ever wondered who would win in a stapler vs. cookie sheet fight? In this class we explore the various ways the common household and street items can be utilized in a choreographed stage fight. Students are taught the steps needed to identify, explore, and create choreography for any given item. Emphasis will be given on how to thoroughly investigate an item; how it moves, its weight, how it can be manipulated, used to attack, defend, etc. We will develop choreography together based on scenes chosen by the students.
Acting: Stage Presence and Connection
Class Description: This course is designed to teach the actor how to stand before an audience confident, honest, and open. Students will learn how to stop "acting", how to exist with no facade, no shields up. The ephemeral skill of capturing the audiences attention will also be explored as well as connecting with a scene partner. This class is geared towards making the performer an exciting, real, and potent entity whenever they take the stage. The techniques of Grotowski and Stanislavski will have a strong influence.
Acting: Scene Study
Class Description: Why are we easy, eloquent, and cooky off-stage but the second we step out into the lights we sound like awkward, boring robots? This class gives the actor skills, both academic and emotional, to find their "in" to the world of the play or scene they are working on. Students will participate in exercises that assist in opening the performer to them self and their character. Utilizing the Mesiner technique and Life Mining exercises, the actor discovers how to connect to the character and their scene partner. Students will be taught how to score their script, understand beats, actions, objectives, obstacles and history.
Movement: Instinct, Confidence, and Connection
Class Description: Become a ninja of the stage. This course hones the actor's senses through a series of games, contact improv, Instinct work, and some good old fashion Exhaustion training. Students will gain a great command of their own physical instrument, learn to focus intensely on the action of the total ensemble, and cultivate a quick, refined instinct that will save your butt again and again be it on stage, public speaking, or in a post-apocalyptic wasteland fraught with mutants.
Movement: Athleticism for the Actor
Class Description: So you're an actor; you can belt, cry on cue, and do drag like nobody's business. But just the walk from the car to the stage entrance has you winded and sweating buckets. Alright, maybe it's not that bad. BUT you're an actor and would like to be more of a physical beast than you are currently. This course is part hardcore working out - part acting exercises. Come out of this class with heightened strength, endurance, and flexibility that you will rely on time and time again. Kick your performances up a notch. Also, abs. Abs, abs, abs.
Creating Original Work
Class Description: Work that is just your own. There is nothing like seeing a dance you choreographed, a play you wrote, a fight you staged being performed in front of adoring audiences. We all have something to say - learn how to say it with art in this course. A Fight Theatre specialty, Creating Original Work will give you the skills needed to start a project and see it through to performance. Students will generate ideas, receive and respond to feedback, have frequent showings of work in progress, and receive guidance in presenting their work to the public. If you have ever wanted to make something of your very own, this is the class for you.
Class Description: This class teaches the essential techniques to understand and perform unarmed fight choreography for the stage. Students will be taught the basic vocabulary of slaps, chokes, hair-pulls, punches, rolls, and kicks. Students will also be taught how to use their breath, voice, body language, and partnering to "sell" the violence. Advanced techniques such as lift chokes, combination contact strikes, and eye gouging will be covered if the collective skill level of the class is adequate. Students will be given choreography to learn and make their own by applying a scene of their choosing.
Stage Combat: Broadsword
Class Description: This class teaches the essentials of swordplay for the stage as well as the specific techniques vital to broadsword choreography. Students will be taught the Parry system as well as how to properly cast a cut with the sword. Emphasis on the combatants movement with the blade; time will be spent helping students to make the sword a part of their moving body. Students will be given choreography to learn and make their own by applying a scene of their choosing.
Stage Combat: Found Weapons
Class Description: Love the Bourne series? Ever wondered who would win in a stapler vs. cookie sheet fight? In this class we explore the various ways the common household and street items can be utilized in a choreographed stage fight. Students are taught the steps needed to identify, explore, and create choreography for any given item. Emphasis will be given on how to thoroughly investigate an item; how it moves, its weight, how it can be manipulated, used to attack, defend, etc. We will develop choreography together based on scenes chosen by the students.
Acting: Stage Presence and Connection
Class Description: This course is designed to teach the actor how to stand before an audience confident, honest, and open. Students will learn how to stop "acting", how to exist with no facade, no shields up. The ephemeral skill of capturing the audiences attention will also be explored as well as connecting with a scene partner. This class is geared towards making the performer an exciting, real, and potent entity whenever they take the stage. The techniques of Grotowski and Stanislavski will have a strong influence.
Acting: Scene Study
Class Description: Why are we easy, eloquent, and cooky off-stage but the second we step out into the lights we sound like awkward, boring robots? This class gives the actor skills, both academic and emotional, to find their "in" to the world of the play or scene they are working on. Students will participate in exercises that assist in opening the performer to them self and their character. Utilizing the Mesiner technique and Life Mining exercises, the actor discovers how to connect to the character and their scene partner. Students will be taught how to score their script, understand beats, actions, objectives, obstacles and history.
Movement: Instinct, Confidence, and Connection
Class Description: Become a ninja of the stage. This course hones the actor's senses through a series of games, contact improv, Instinct work, and some good old fashion Exhaustion training. Students will gain a great command of their own physical instrument, learn to focus intensely on the action of the total ensemble, and cultivate a quick, refined instinct that will save your butt again and again be it on stage, public speaking, or in a post-apocalyptic wasteland fraught with mutants.
Movement: Athleticism for the Actor
Class Description: So you're an actor; you can belt, cry on cue, and do drag like nobody's business. But just the walk from the car to the stage entrance has you winded and sweating buckets. Alright, maybe it's not that bad. BUT you're an actor and would like to be more of a physical beast than you are currently. This course is part hardcore working out - part acting exercises. Come out of this class with heightened strength, endurance, and flexibility that you will rely on time and time again. Kick your performances up a notch. Also, abs. Abs, abs, abs.
Creating Original Work
Class Description: Work that is just your own. There is nothing like seeing a dance you choreographed, a play you wrote, a fight you staged being performed in front of adoring audiences. We all have something to say - learn how to say it with art in this course. A Fight Theatre specialty, Creating Original Work will give you the skills needed to start a project and see it through to performance. Students will generate ideas, receive and respond to feedback, have frequent showings of work in progress, and receive guidance in presenting their work to the public. If you have ever wanted to make something of your very own, this is the class for you.