Stage & Screen Combat Workshop - February Half Term

Stage & Screen Combat Workshop

The workshop will help children gain and develop a professional knowledge and understanding of the methods used in stage combat including fundamental safety techniques. The physical workshop will focus on unarmed combat providing children with strong foundation skills to build upon.Stage combat is not just about learning how to hit someone on stage (without actually hitting them of course), it covers a wide range of performance and social skills. At even a basic level stage combat encourages partnership, co-operation, confidence and trust. It teaches co-ordination, awareness, respect and control. It is not just a physical activity either, it requires a great deal of concentration to create a layers of character, motivation/intention, reaction/consequence and on a theoretical level students are taught to consider the effects of violence, both physical and mental, on the victim and the attacker.

The workshop will cater for two age groups with the younger group on Monday and the older group on Tuesday. There will be a presentation to parents & friends at the end of each workshop.

Date: Monday 17th or Tuesday 18th February 2014
Time: 10am-3pm
Open to ages 6-11yrs (Monday) 12-18yrs (Tuesday)
Cost per child: £30

To book your place please contact Kim at info@jktheatrearts.com or 07504059640

JK Theatre Arts will be welcoming Dan Styles who is a certified teacher with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat as well as a fight co-ordinator and fight performer.

As a co-ordinator Dan has worked on over 100 productions for stage and screen and he will be working with Inglenook Productions on their upcoming feature 'The Redemption of Willoughby Franks'.

Theatre work includes 'Tomorrow I'll be Happy' (National Theatre & Soho Theatre), 'Pastoral' (Soho Theatre), 'Romeo & Juliet' x3, 'Three Musketeers' x2, 'Macbeth', 'A Clockwork Orange', 'Lord of the Flies', 'Of Mice and Men' and many more.

Previous films include 'Gangs of Tooting Broadway' (DVD release), 'The Harsh Light of Day' (DVD release), 'Harrigan' (Cinema release - as assistant co-ordinator), 'Drake' (Winner - Best Foreign Film at the LA Action on Film Festival), 'Santa's Blotto' (official selection London Film Festival), 'Up On The Roof' (Official selection London Film Festival) amongst others. Dan has performed fights on productions such as ‘Thor 2’, ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’, ‘Green Street Hooligans: Underground’, ‘Blue Peter’, and ‘Killzone 4’.

He has worked with the likes of Brian Blessed (‘Flash Gordon’), Ray Stevenson (‘Thor’), Steven Tompkinson (‘Wild at Heart’), Steven Arnold (‘Coronation Street’), Jimmy Mistry (‘East is East’), Mark Kileen (‘Game of Thrones’) and Helen Skelton (‘Blue Peter’).

Training providers and organisations Dan has worked at include Mountview, East 15, Arts Ed, Italia Contis, ALRA, Rose Bruford Drama School, Central School of Ballet, Shakespeare's Globe Exhibition, Pauline Quirk Academy, London Coliseum/ENO, Leicester Curve Theatre, West End Stage, and more.