Dual-Wielding Weapons Workshop
MELBOURNE: Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th January 2025
An exciting new stage combat workshop for fighting with a weapon in each hand, exploring SWORD AND BUCKLER (shield), RAPIER, DAGGERS, CLOAKS, KNIVES and FOUND WEAPONS.
WHAT IS IT?
This great new workshop is chance to hone in on some of the most exciting weapon fighting systems – with applications for stage, screen and motion capture.
The Dual-Wielding Weapons Workshop has been created for those who have already some experience in stage and screen combat, who are ready to dive into new and thrilling skills development, coordination, rhythm, shapes and stories. Working with two weapons at once creates dynamic and energising action that is enjoyable both for the performer and the audience. As a performer it also greatly imrpoves your body control and awareness, while you engage both sides of the body in telling the story you want to tell and keeping everyone safe.
The fighting systems we will cover tap into a huge range of story-telling genres across a range of media – from Shakespeare to fantasy, gaming to urban fights. We will delve into historical forms, dramatic contexts and how we use these weapon systems to convey impactful character narratives for the audience. Strap in, it’s going to be gutsy.
WHEN IS IT?
Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th January 2025
10:00am to 6:00pm
WHERE IS IT?
Dancehouse Carlton, Upstairs Studio
150 Princes St, Carlton North, 3054
WHO IS IT FOR?
This course is designed for students who already have an intermediate to advanced level of weapons training in stage and screen combat. Please get in touch if you are unsure whether you are ready for the course this time around. If you would like an introductory course, do come join us in the Drop In Classes and the Stage Combat Foundations Course.
Captivate actively supports diverse and equitable work- and learning-spaces. We also fiercely protect safe work- and learning-spaces for all of our participants. If you have any concerns or questions please get in touch with us.
HOW MUCH IS IT?
EARLY BIRD: $335 (+GST) Register and finalise payment by 20th December 2024
CCONCESSION: $365 (+GST)
STANDARD: $395 (+GST)
A deposit of at least 50% of your course fee is required on registration. Places are confirmed only on completion of full payment. Please note we are unable to hold places without a deposit, and any payments made are not refundable.
We accept online transfer (no additional fee) or PayPal invoice (3% admin fee) for this course – an invoice will be sent to you on registration.
HOW DO I JOIN IN?
Bookings are now open. Spots are very competitive as we have strict capacity limits and places sell out quickly, so register early to save your spot (and to get the Early Bird price). Just fill out the online registration form once bookings open, and we will reply with your registration confirmation. A minimum 50% deposit is required to complete the registration.
Make sure you get a text box confirmation that your registration form has gone through as soon as you SUBMIT. If you do not hear from us within 48 hours, check your junk mail, and then send us an email.
About your tutors:
LYNDALL GRANT (she/her): Fight Director
LYNDALL GRANT (she/her) is a Fight Director, Movement Director, actor and Motion Capture Specialist who works in Australia and Internationally for stage and screen. She is a senior teacher and Management Committee member for the Society of Australian Fight Directors, and certified Dramatic Combat teacher with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat. Lyndall currently teaches stage combat at the Victorian College of the Arts, 16th Street Actors Studio and National Theatre Drama School.
Lyndall trained as an actor as London’s ArtsEd School of Acting, before specialising in fight performance and physical performance. She began working as a fight director in London in 2010. In 2013 Lyndall established Captivate Action Ltd. in the U.K., as the first company to specialise in training and performance in action and Motion Capture, and brought this company home to Australia in 2016. Lyndall was an actor and movement captain in Melbourne’s production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child from 2018 to 2022
Recent fight/movement credits include Oscar (The Australian Ballet); Rusalka (West Australian Opera); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Michael Cassel Group); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf, Sunset Boulevard, Groundhog Day The Musical, Death of A Salesman, An American in Paris, 2:22 A Ghost Story (GWB); Beauty and the Beast (Disney Australia); Cost of Living, Topdog/Underdog, The Almighty Sometimes, 37, My Sister Jill, A Very Jewish Christmas Carol, Is God Is, Sunday, As You Like It, Berlin, The Lifespan of a Fact, The Architect, Cosi, Torch the Place, The Lady in the Van, Astroman, Lillith the Jungle Girl, Straight White Men, Melbourne Talam, Macbeth, Hungry Ghosts (Melbourne Theatre Company); Cruel Intentions the Musical (David Venn Enterprises); Nosferatu, Looking for Alibrandi, Atlantis, The Return, Because the Night and Cloudstreet (Malthouse Theatre); 37 (Queensland Theatre Company); Sunday, Is God Is, Lord of the Flies, Cosi (Sydney Theatre Company), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?, Blackout Songs, The Way Things Are (Red Stitch); Il Viaggio A Reims (Opera Australia); Things I Know to Be True (Theatre Works); Milked, True West, Two Remain, Punk Rock (45 Downstairs), The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre Royal Haymarket, U.K.), Alice in Winterland, The Wind in the Willows, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe (Rose Theatre Kingston, U.K.), Henry IV Part 1 (St. James Theatre, U.K.).
JOSH BELL (he/him): Assistant Fight Director
JOSH BELL (he/him) is a journey-level fight director, actor and theatre-maker based in Melbourne. Under the mentorship of Lyndall Grant he is an assistant fight director at Captivate Action, and is a member of the Society of Australian Fight Directors. He has a BFA in Theatre Practice (Acting Company 2016) from the Victorian College of the Arts. Josh has regular teaching engagements teaching stage combat to students across public workshops, university and secondary schools – including Collarts, Grace Acting Studios, National Theatre Drama School and Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School.
Fight credits include The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Slay Theatre); Hamlet, The Whale, Julius Caesar, 12th Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Melbourne Shakespeare Company); Powder Room (MC Showroom); Crocodile Fever (TART Theatre Collective); The View From Up Here (The Voice in My Hands, Theatreworks); Gundog (Three Fates Theatre); Cloud 9 (VCA); Everyone is Famous (Riot Theatre); The Cane (Red Stitch Theatre); The Human Voice Project (Periscope Productions); and Stockholm (Et Tu Theatre).
We look forward to seeing you there!
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