{"id":4323,"date":"2015-02-16T23:55:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T23:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2015-02-16T23:55:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T23:55:31","slug":"tim-weske-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/stage-combat-2\/tim-weske-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Weske Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/blog-tim-weske.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/blog-tim-weske.jpg\" alt=\"blog-tim-weske\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4324\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backstage.com\/interview\/power-emotionally-charged-theatrical-fight\/\">The Power of an Emotionally Charged Theatrical Fight<\/a>, an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backstage.com\">Backstage.com<\/a>, Tim Weske says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[A fight] is a huge moment in the life of a character,\u201d he explains. \u201cHe\u2019s facing life and death, and when you\u2019re angry enough or insane enough to pick up a weapon that you\u2019re going to hurt somebody or kill somebody with, you hit one of the highest points of human emotion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to remember that fight choreography isn&#8217;t just a process of determining an order for attack and defense while imitating some historical style. Your character is fighting for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>When was the last time you threw a punch in anger? It happens so rarely in our society that it can be hard to connect with that level of aggression. If you play a murderer on stage, whether part of an army, or a scene of desperate self-defense, you&#8217;d better bring the emotion with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Power of an Emotionally Charged Theatrical Fight, an article on Backstage.com, Tim Weske says: [A fight] is a huge moment in the life of a character,\u201d he explains. \u201cHe\u2019s facing life and death, and when you\u2019re angry enough or insane enough to pick up a weapon that you\u2019re going to hurt somebody or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stage-combat-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/blog-tim-weske.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323"}],"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=4323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4325,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions\/4325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}