National Stage Combat Workshops - Actor Combatant Skills Proficiency (ACSP)

Actor Combatant Skills Proficiency is an intensive course focusing on training students in the compulsory techniques required for SAFD Skills Proficiency Tests (SPTs) in unarmed, rapier & dagger and broadsword. Students will spend over thirty hours learning to safely perform choreography in each of these three “fight” disciplines, as well as additional classes in other weapon styles.



Although the primary focus of this course is the learning of techniques and choreography containing the compulsory techniques required for the SPT, the class also focuses on developing partnering skills and expanding the artist’s imagination and ability to use these skills to make their stage combat work more connected and truthful. Working in a studio format, students will explore character objectives and beat work within the fight, and are coached/rehearsed through their fight scenes. The course concludes in a presentation of the fight scenes for adjudication by SAFD Fight Masters.



Students will be in class at least seven hours a day, six days a week. Each day typically begins with an appropriate physical warm-up, followed by classes in two disciplines in the morning, two further disciplines each afternoon, and master classes and rehearsals in the evening. The long hours and intensity of this program require a considerable amount of discipline, commitment, flexibility and stamina from all participants. Swords, daggers and all other required theatrical weapons will be provided, in class, for each student.

Credit Hours

College – four (4) semester hours

Workshop Specifics

Dates: June 20 – July 8, 2011



Tuition scholarships available for all SAFD members!

Admission Requirements



Minimum age is 18 (must have completed high school).



Previous drama, acting and/or stage combat experience is not essential.

1. One (1) letter of recommendation from either a dramatic arts teacher or theatre professional that supports the student’s desire and ability to pursue training in stage combat.

To Apply:

Potential students must fill out and mail in an application to be considered. Applications can be downloaded at:



http://uncsa.edu/summersession/application.htm



If you need an application mailed to you, or if you have questions about the application and admissions process, please contact the NCSA admissions office at:



North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Session Office of Admissions

1533 S. Main Street

Winston-Salem, NC 27127-2188

Office: 336 770-3290

Fax: 336 770-3370

Email: admissions@uncsa.edu

For Additional Information:

Contact Mike Mahaffey, NSCW Coordinator

or

Dale Girard, Director of Stage Combat Studies, at dgirard@uncsa.edu or 336 734-2834