Stage Combat for Beginners: BADC Level 1

For absolute beginners or those with no previous British Academy of Dramatic Combat (BADC) qualifications, or those wishing to renew an expired level 1 certificate. This course will cover rapier and dagger, single sword and unarmed combat techniques.

This is an intensive course with students spending over forty hours learning to safely perform fight choreography in each of the three fight disciplines. The course will also focus on acting skills and students will work on incorporating their fight choreography into dramatic scenes. Exploring topics such as character objective, fight rhythm and staging actors will learn to create a fight where they are connected and truthful and as such engaging to an audience.

Students will have the opportunity at the end of the course to certify with the BADC at Level 1 in rapier & dagger, single sword and unarmed combat. The test fee is included in the course price.

ID Teacher Dan Styles is a certified teacher with the BADC. He has choreographed numerous fights for film, 3D film, green screen, stage, street theatre and motion capture. With over 100 credits to his name stage work includes "The Three Musketeers" (x2), "Romeo & Juliet" (x3), "Macbeth" and "Dracula". Film work includes feature films "Tooting Broadway", "Harsh Light of Day", "Fossil", "Voodoo Magic" and "Charlene".

This is a BADC affiliated course.