They Fight: Classical to Contemporary Stage Fight Scenes by Kyna Hamill<\/a><\/p>\nStandard Fight Scenes<\/h1>\n
I would love to give each fighting pair a standard scene, but that would not only be unbearably boring for the adjudicator, it would set up the students to compete on acting the scene.<\/p>\n
Our goal is good fights in the context of a scene, we don’t need to compare actors on their acting skills within the scene. <\/p>\n
Clip and Edit<\/h1>\n
Grab the nearest script. There will be a scene of disagreement, since conflict is the essence of drama (a great writer once said)… make that conflict your fight.<\/p>\n
Any scene in which two characters have a strong disagreement (even if there’s no mention of swords or physical violence) can be a fight scene. The student can insert a physical fight into a scene in which the characters only yell at eachother. Or you could upgrade a fight from “she slaps him” to “she attacks him, and they fight.”<\/p>\n
The rule is this: you can change stage directions, but you can’t change the written dialogue.<\/p>\n
Just remember that we need to know why<\/strong> the two characters are fighting, and keep it short.<\/p>\nAnd in case it wasn’t clear: No, you may not write your own scene for FDC certification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Most actors learn stage combat for a specific role while in rehearsal. My belief that every performer before leaving acting school should have Basic Actor-Combatant certification wth Fight Directors Canada does not have widespread support. Therefore, the majority of actors already have a scene to fight to. But actors who are taking the full stage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-3212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stage-combat-2","tag-stage-combat-3"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMG_1520.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3493,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions\/3493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
: The Count of Monte Cristo, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Three Musketeers<\/li>\n
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