David McCormick
Executive: Communications
Certification Level: Instructor
Country: Canada
City: Vancouver
Union Status: None
Bio:
David has recently moved from Toronto to Vancouver, where he hopes to enhance the theatre of the West Coast with exciting and safe stage combat for years to come. At this year’s National Workshop, David was awarded his Instructor’s Certification.
David got his start in stage combat at the University of Waterloo while studying to become a director. He graduated with a double major in psychology and dramatic theory, but wanted to pursue dramatic violence most of all. He studied stage combat primarily with Daniel Levinson at Rapier Wit as well as FDC National Workshops, from novice to Advanced Actor Combatant over the past eight years.
Dramatic conflict seemed like a natural career path, because David has been acting and taking martial arts classes since age six. His foundations in Shotokan karate and judo led to exploration of Kyokushinkai and Uechi karate, then to a love of Wing Chun, and recent forays into the practical systems of Russian Systema and Krav Maga.
David has been performing and choreographing staged violence for nine years now in and around Toronto. He has been the resident fight choreographer for the award-winning Forward Theatre in Mississauga for six years. The creativity and collaborative nature of that company has given him the opportunity to invent fighting styles for ancient Egyptians and a tribe of wolf-worshipers, as well as arranging fights for a Romeo and Juliet in the round using Chinese martial arts – including killing Mercutio bare handed using Tiger Style.
Websites:
Email this member: david@playfighting.ca