Actor Combatant Skills Proficiency Workshop

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.

When?

  • June 30th - July 20th, 2013

Tuition and Fees

  • Actor Combatant Skills Proficiency (ACSP) -   $1850.00
  • Room and board for adult/college workshops -   $910.00
  • Tuition scholarships available for all SAFD members!

Want to Pay TUITION & FEES via CREDIT CARD? - Credit card payments may be made by phone only.  Please call (336) 770-1432 to make credit card payment arrangements.  

Admission Requirements

  • Minimum age is 18 (must have completed high school).
  • Previous drama, acting and/or stage combat experience is not essential.
  • 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:

All 2013 applications need to be received by The University of North Carolina School of the Arts no later than Wednesday, May 1st, 2013.

  • Potential students must fill out and mail in an application to be considered.
  • Applications can be downloaded at: http://www.uncsa.edu/summersession/pdStgCom.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

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