Classes and Training
More classes are always in the works, and we also do workshops by request.
Reach out if you don’t see what you’re looking for!
Theatrical Intimacy in the Real World
Sunday, Jan 5, 2024
9am - 12noon, Herndon VA
$30-$45 Registration • 18+
A Two-Part Practical Advocacy Workshop for all Theater and Film Makers.
Rapier and… WTF???
Sunday, Jan 12, 2025
9am - 12noon, Herndon VA
$35 Registration • 18+
Oh no, I forgot my dagger! Guess I'll have to improvise...
Rope Dart
Sunday, Jan 19, 2025
9am - 12noon, Herndon VA
$45 Registration • 14+
An introduction to the fundamental building blocks and intermediate techniques of both martial and flow-based uses of the Rope Dart/Meteor Hammer.
Swashbuckling!
Sunday, Jan 26, 2025
9am - 12noon, Herndon VA
$35 Registration • 14+
Step into the world of daring heroes and dastardly villains in our Stage Combat class focused on Hollywood Single Sword!
"O, I Am Slain!" –
Shakespeare's Deaths
Sunday, Feb 2, 2025
9am - 12noon, Herndon VA
$35 Registration • 18+
We will build choreography informed by how Shakespeare wrote his characters and fights as they appear in the First Folio, explicitly Mercutio and Tybalt, Joan and Talbot, and Henry and Hotspur.
Remembering Fight Posture
Sunday, Feb 9, 2025
10am - 12noon, Herndon VA
$35 Registration • 14+
This course is designed for actor combatants of any level looking to explore the art of wielding two-handed weapons, combining martial logic with theatrical storytelling.
CORE-terstaff
Sunday, Feb 23, 2025
10:30am - 12noon, Herndon VA
$35 Registration • 18+
Welcome to the exciting world of Staff fighting! Learn to handle the weapon with ease while using your core to maneuver the stick into successful attacks and parries.
Two Handed Sword SPT
Sundays, Mar 2 thru May 25, 2025
9am - 12noon, Herndon VA
$395 Registration • 18+
From She Kills Monsters to Kill Bill, and Highlander to Henry IV, the two-handed sword holds a central place in dramatic and popular imagination. This class covers the basic skills needed to perform dynamic, safe, and effective sword fights for the stage.
How We Got There From Here
Tuesday, Apr 29, 2025
7pm - 8:30pm EST, Virtual
$35 Registration • 14+
A History and discussion of the art of stage combat. How the art form developed and why things are the way they are.
Previous Class Seasons
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• Unarmed SPT – Robb Hunter
• Working with Disabled and Chronically Ill Performers – Monty Davis
• Fierce Knife Fighting for Beginners – Bess Kaye
• Feeling Strong with Sword and Shield – Melissa Freilich -
• Is It Real? Safety and Story of Visceral Contact Technique – Bess Kaye
• Single Sword SPT – Robb Hunter
• Practical Blood Effects – Casey Kaleba
• Combat Dance: Bar Brawl – Jenny Male
• Combat Dance: Rhythm and Blades – Jenny Male
• Fighting Messy – Melissa Freilich
• Intro to Pro Wrestling – Jonathan Ezra Rubin
• SAFD Theatrical Firearms Safety – Robb Hunter
• Rapier and Dagger SPT – Casey Kaleba
• Rehearsing the Fight – J. Tyler Jones
• Intro to Gore Makeup for the Stage – Celia Konowe
• Fighting on the Spectrum – Hannah Roccisano
• I Feel Very Attacked! – Hannah Roccisano -
• Smallsword SPT – Robb Hunter
• Fighting Backwards in High Heels – Melissa Freilich
• That’s Not a Knife…Or is it!? – Jonathan Ezra Rubin
• How to Fight Like a Pirate – Mallory Shear
• Sword and Shield SPT – Robb Hunter
• Johannes Wick: Medieval Close Quarters Dagger – Casey Kaleba
• High Falls from Low Places – Robb Hunter -
• Unarmed SPT – Robb Hunter
• T.I.E. Consent and Boundaries – Kailey Azure Green
• Rapier Basics – Adam Konowe
• Zero Budget Blood Effects – Casey Kaleba
• Acting the Fight with Alexander Technique – Melissa Freilich
• Knife SPT – Robb Hunter
• SAFD Theatrical Firearms Safety – Robb Hunter
• Maintaining the Actors’ Body – Ian Claar -
• Rapier and Dagger Foundations
• Partnering and Physicality
• Unarmed Foundations
• Blades of Shakespeare