Stage Combat Workshop - Swashbuckling

This is a seven day course.

You’ve seen the swashbuckling movies both old and new. Now is your chance to learn to fight like Zorro, Jack Sparrow and the loveable rouges from the Princess Bride. Swashbuckling is fun but it’s also a challenging skill to fight like you love it whilst keeping the tension and fear needed to give the audience goose bumps. Fight right handed, fight left handed and look cool whilst you do it.

Students will learn the techniques required to perform an effective swashbuckling fight and will have the opportunity at the end of the course to take the British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat Fight Performance Test. The test fee is included in the course price. The course will also focus on acting skills and students will be expanding upon their knowledge of performing a dramatic fight scene with dialogue.

In order to enrol on this course, students must have completed their basic stage combat certification with either the BASSC, BADC, SAFD or equivalent organisation.

ID Teacher Ronin Traynor is a certified teacher with the BASSC and Ronin has directed fights for over 150 productions including film, TV, musicals, opera, motion capture and numerous theatre shows in the UK and overseas. Credits include Swordmaster on The First Musketeer, Fight Co-ordinator and actor trainer for the BBC’s Musketeer feature on Blue Peter and Fight Director for the launch of the Errol Flynn cinema.