IDS 101: The Beauty of Violence: Streaming Videos

Featuring stage combat expert David Boushey, this set teaches stage combat techniques and shows how to produce safe, exciting fight sequences. This video covers medieval weaponry. [AVON]

Featuring stage combat expert David Boushey, this set teaches stage combat techniques and shows how to produce safe, exciting fight sequences. This video covers Elizabethan weaponry. [AVON]

Featuring stage combat expert David Boushey, this set teaches stage combat techniques and shows how to produce safe, exciting fight sequences. This video covers Unarmed Combat. [AVON]

This series offers a range of short, easy-to-follow e-learning videos demonstrating how to develop key skills related to stage combat. This series also includes an accompanying workbook. [DT+]

Actor and fight director Rebecca Wilson explains how to safely create the illusion of slaps and punches on the stage. [DT+]

Actor and fight director Rebecca Wilson explains how to safely create the illusion of pushes and falls on the stage.[DT+]

Actor and fight director Rebecca Wilson explains how to safely begin stage combat work through consent, communication, and trust and how to complete a few basic grabs. [DT+]

Renny Krupinski worked as Fight Director on Phillip Breen's acclaimed revival production of Sam Shepard's True West. [DT+]

Terry King discusses the complexity of creating violence onstage. As fight director on King Lear he unearths the tasks and responsibilities that his role demands. [DT+]

Presents techniques for staging fight scenes, taught by two of the most prominent fight directors in the American theater, both members of the Society of American Fight Directors. [Kanopy]

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