The Experience of Stage Combat

The feeling you get when you watch a fight is different than the feeling of performing it. When we watch a fight as an audience, we tend to remember the image of the end points (completion of the attack and the parry), and the experience of the pathway. As a...

Move As Fast As You Can Think

Run the choreography at a speed at which you can easily remember what comes next. Do all of the actions and any acting beats — pauses in movement, but not pauses in intention — in the right order without stopping. Usually, this is a much slower speed than...

Movement As Dialogue

As promised, we’re looking at methods and exercises for rehearsing a fight scene! Today, we begin with a foundation concept when approaching your fight choreography which lays the groundwork for the upcoming series. In many cases, actors remember the sequence of...