Stage Combat Final 2006

[Davidthe29directors]

You are very talented. The music gives great atmosphere. Are you professional?

Please would you look at my two videos and tell me what you think?

[tvzu2]

Awesome, we're learning basic stage combat in my drama class =]

[coolness317]

This is hilarious! I just finished a unit on stage combat... xD gooooooooooooodjob

[JadePenbrooke]

Mary Read, correct? Or just some pirate named Mary? Where do you take these classes? (sorry, I'm an acting nerd, and a pirate nerd, and a stage combat nerd.)

[VBearV]

pussy whipped lol

[unaflux999]

the music is from the movie 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' (in the first half of the fight)! nice!

[theaterdemon]

Thank you very much for sharing :) What grade did you get on the final? It was very good i enjoyed very much.

[atheatergeek]

You kinda owned him and he almost got on chance. Nice job.

[Disneyfan1004]

check out my video of stage combat its funny i did it with my friend

[Disneyfan1004]

not the best iv seen, i agree the faster u do it the more "improvised :)

[blkblt2dgree]

Too slow, makes it look coreographed

[TheRealArchAngel]

LOL. Theater fencing usually is usually to stylized, slow, and with no obvious off hand oppotunity attacks, no kicking opportunity attacks, no "knuckling"(ramming handgaurd into face), and no biting or head butting....lol

[barona1]

No no. All kicks were fake. I don't want to really hurt the guy! He's foxy for Pete's sake! :p

[raihatheanimeluver]

omg, great! did that gurl (dk if it's u) really kick the guy or was that the fake combat thing?cause it looked real to me....

[misformurmur]

That's RIGHT! Don't take no lip from a man in pajama pants!

[sabre1981]

Great acting and nice fencing coreography - maybe a bit too "clean" (or artificial). Check out our attempts at stage fencing if you want to (although we are no real actors, just sport fencers)

[MGP1337]

Agreed. It just needs to be alittle faster to keep it from looking so uniform. Seemed too choreographed... I kept thinking of that scene in Robin Hood: Men in Tights when he was like "Parry, parry, thrust thrust....Good!" (weird thought I know)

Other than that, superb acting, just work on the fencing....and the music choice at the end is questionable

[calderwis]

You should make it look as if you intend to actually kill each other, i.e., don't just clash the blades together far away from your bodies.

[Foxblinde]

I took drama in highschool, got to do very little in way of stage combat, but mostly because the swords we had were ghetto and merely holding them cut your hand up pretty badly...(seriously, one hit and the hilt fractured.) But me and Erica made some pretty fun fights together.

[PinkLemonadeFever]

great job... all of ya! yeah, this is def. better than your midterm, which was still pretty good! Nick, can you come to Avila and be my stage combat partner? i'm a freshman acting major too! ;) ;) Arielle, you so funny!

[rudrah]

Arielle slaying a wide swath! She is a DELIGHT!

[MezzoDiva]

Arielle! Chicklet you rock! Loved the film making too and your cute co-star! Tons of fun and super energized fighting! Congrats!!

[TheKindler]

Nice job. You guys are good at selling the hits.

[adriannap]

good fight but you have a habit that I share too - you get too vertical in your stance - like when you're retreating in the beginning phrases. jeans are suck for fighting unless its costume- but great work!

[groupiesrule]

I really want to get into Stage Combat! The punching and the fencing was so cool. I'm literally dying of jealousy here. They don't teach this sort of thing at my school *cries*

[InuxWoof]

I'm inspired too. I'm taking a Stage Combat class at the art school I'm attending over the summer.

<3

[rczeien]

This is amazing. I am inspired.

-- Richard Zeien

[hotme33]

This piece was awesome. You kept all the blows away from the face and the style was amazing. If you don't mind a knit-pick from a fellow theatre student training for his Actor/Combatant certification, the only thing I would have added was more emphasis in the reach of your attacks... it gives a sense a real danger and makes it less like a dance. Awesome job though! I loved it! Check out my final!

[BritCanuck]

Someone please cast Arielle in a swashbuckler, she's a natural. 5/5