by Daniel Levinson

Rapier Wit is proud to host Tim Klotz
Saturday November 21 and Sunday 22 10-3

$288.75 for members of Rapier Wit, Equity, and Actra

$393.75 for non-members

if paid before November 2

Tim Klotz is the resident fight director with the Drama Centre London, the UK’s leading drama school focusing on method acting. Tim is a certified fight director with Fight Directors Canada (FDC), and certified Stage Combat Instructor with the BADC. Credits include the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Shakespeare’s Globe, the IOSP Paddy Crean, BBC, Channel 4, The Royal Festival Hall, The History Channel, The Lyric Hammersmith, The Nashville Ballet feature film ‘The Hide’ and video games including ‘Spartan Total Warrior’, ‘Shellshock II’, ‘Killzone 2’ and ‘Medieval Total War II’. He also is the founding director of YoungBlood Dramatic Action Services and an activist for fair competition in stage combat.Smallsword decoded:

Acting the fight- Applying Sanford Meisner’s principals to Stage Combat

Tim Klotz (FDC Fight Director and BADC Certified Teacher) uses Tony Wolf’s system of activities and games with Sanford Meisner‘s principles.

Bringing meaningful acting to stage combat is the next big challenge in stage combat. Instead of focusing on ‘selling’ tricks and illusions, this workshop focuses on straight forward, moment to moment acting and safe emotional preparation for stage combat. Doing away with hesitation and self-consciousness, the actor becomes more physical, more spontaneous, more connected and involved and is affected more deeply by the other actors around them.

Our goal is to enable actors to achieve more believable and meaningful physical performances. To be a giving and open collaborator in rehearsals, as well as being a dynamic performer.

The work begins with simple solo and paired exercises and short stage combat sequences. Then we quickly move into improvisations which explore the essential content of the scenario behind the text. Relationships, conflicts and actions.

Workshop participants should have experience in stage combat. Like Tony Wolf’s workshops, this will be useful to everyone from the beginner to the fight director.

Note: I am particularly interested in exploring material already familiar to you. Perhaps an old routine that has lost its sparkle. So I would like to encourage you and a fight partner to bring in a fight you have previously worked on (such as a certification fight scene).

Advanced Smallsword Technique

‘Thrusting against the wall’. ‘Giving Grace’. ‘Opposition’. ‘Counter caveting’. ‘Demi-circle’. ‘Low Carte’. What does this all mean? Why are the parries numbered as they are? Why no Sixte or Septime- yet there is Octave? Did they really fence safely without masks? Back hand palm up or down?

Smallsword with old and new exercises, working from a period glossary (McArthur 1784)

This session is designed to make smallsword simpler, clearer and more accessible straight from the page.

Beautiful, safer and refreshingly comfortable. Smallsword as it was meant to be.

Recommended for people who love/hate smallsword. Not for the novice.

For more information, or to book classes, please contact Daniel Levinson

at (416) 534-1947 Daniel@rapierwit.com
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