Participants from all over the US and abroad will come together in New York CityJuly 5th – 11th, 2010 to train for one intensive week with the Art of Combat company in the skills needed to create extraordinary fights for stage and screen. Classes (taught by Jared Kirby and John Lennox) will include stage combat, historical fencing, acting the fight, finding your angles and much more. The workshop will culminate in a show that will be performed in New York City.
This workshop is an immersion into the AoC company which has been actively transferring historical combat styles to stage and film for over a decade. Members are trained in historical combat styles and learn how to make them safe and replicable for stage and screen. Our training and expertise has enhanced theatre, film and TV with authentic and realistic combat sequences all around the world.
The week is structured so that you will get the most out of it. You can register at one of three levels, based on your skill level and what you want to learn: “Combatant”, “On Track” or “Fight Director”.
Current Productions
Fight directing the epic battle to end The Otherworld film. Click below to see rehearsal pics:
Feb 13-15th, 2010- The Western Washington WMA Workshop in Seattle, WA.
Teaching a 9 hr. track entitled "The Martial Art of Stage Combat" with Brad Waller.
Partial review from Kevin Inouye of Fight Designer LLC: Any actor would be blessed to have Jared [Kirby] helping them delve in to the moments when their character becomes involved with violent action, and any director will benefit from his knowledge not just of martial concepts, but of what makes for strong, interesting choices. Those choices are informed by his studies of martial arts, but also of dramatic and psychological approaches to violence that might have nothing to do with what we think of traditionally as "martial arts".
Participants from all over the US and abroad will come together in New York CityAugust 9th – 15th, 2009 to train for one intensive week with the Art of Combat company in the skills needed to create extraordinary fights for stage and screen. Classes (taught by Jared Kirby and John Lennox) will include stage combat, historical fencing, acting the fight, finding your angles and much more. The workshop will culminate in a show that will be performed in New York City.
This workshop is an immersion into the AoC company which has been actively transferring historical combat styles to stage and film for over a decade. Members are trained in historical as well as standard combat styles for stage and screen. Our training and expertise has enhanced theatre, film and TV with authentic and realistic combat sequences all around the world.
The week is structured so that you will get the most out of it. You can register at one of three levels, based on your skill level and what you want to learn: “Combatant”, “On Track” or “Fight Director”.
July 9th-Aug 2nd, 2009 - Fight Director for this production of Hamlet produced by Hudson Warehouse Theatre. You can view a clip of my work on this production at:
A weeklong immersion into Italian or Spanish rapier with classes 8 hours a day and lectures held every night. Maestro Ramon Martinez, Maestro Jeannette Acosta Martinez, Jared Kirby and Antone Blair teach the world's only weeklong camp for serious students of historical rapier fencing.
As always, this camp will serve as an introduction to the art for those with no previous fencing experience, in a safe and friendly learning environment. Anyone wanting a solid foundation for the study and practice of this demanding art should not miss this unique opportunity.
This camp also remains the best opportunity for experienced rapier fencers to hone their skills and improve their understanding of the concepts, techniques, tactics and theory of either the Italian or Spanish systems of 17th century rapier fencing. Any experienced student or instructor of rapier fencing cannot afford to miss this week of intensive training.
August 4th - 6th, 2009 - The Shenandoah Project in Skyland Resort, VA
May 21st - May 25th, 2009 - International Swordfighting and Martial Arts Convention in Detroit, MI http://www.theismac.org
Come celebrate the 10th annual ISMAC! With 48 classes offered over the course of 4 days, tournaments, lectures and free fencing, this promises to be an amazing Western Martial Arts event. You can the complete schedule online. Some of the classes offered are in Unarmed Combat, Pugilism, Knife, Longsword, Sword & Buckler, Rapier, French Smallsword, Messer, Pirate weapons and even Bicycle Self Defense!
You will find class descriptions for every class on the schedule and feel free to email me with any questions you may have.
From 7pm-9pm we will present the weapons taught at the Academy for the public. After this introduction you will have the opportunity to try one of them out!
March 21st - 22nd, 2009 - Spanish Rapier Workshop in Milwaukee, WI
