Hello all of you lovely people! I am Jacob Camp and this week at PAC, in our rehearsal for Midsummer, we've started getting our hands dirty with some fight choreography!
Now, I can't give you the nasty little details you all crave, so you will just have to come see the show when we open December 4th!
However, I can tell you a little bit about what goes into fight choreography and what it takes to pull it off.
Stage Combat (technical term for fight choreography) is a skill, or discipline similar to dancing in that it requires coordination, focus, a willingness to have fun and most importantly, trust. Trusting your partner (or partners, as some would have it) is essential to creating collaborative art and stage combat is no exception. You have got to trust your partner, otherwise someone gets hit in the face (or the testis) and nobody wants that. On the other hand however, nobody's perfect and sometimes no matter how much training you've had, people get too excited and someone gets hit somewhere they really didn't want to be hit. But when you have a great partner, one you trust completely and that trusts you no matter what, you role with the punches and make some magic. What I'm saying is, to me, the most important element to stage fighting is trust. Trust in yourself and trust in those around you.
Now, I can't give you the nasty little details you all crave, so you will just have to come see the show when we open December 4th!
However, I can tell you a little bit about what goes into fight choreography and what it takes to pull it off.
Stage Combat (technical term for fight choreography) is a skill, or discipline similar to dancing in that it requires coordination, focus, a willingness to have fun and most importantly, trust. Trusting your partner (or partners, as some would have it) is essential to creating collaborative art and stage combat is no exception. You have got to trust your partner, otherwise someone gets hit in the face (or the testis) and nobody wants that. On the other hand however, nobody's perfect and sometimes no matter how much training you've had, people get too excited and someone gets hit somewhere they really didn't want to be hit. But when you have a great partner, one you trust completely and that trusts you no matter what, you role with the punches and make some magic. What I'm saying is, to me, the most important element to stage fighting is trust. Trust in yourself and trust in those around you.
So, even though it may look like we're up there beating the bejesus out of each other, we're actually quite safe, and we achieve this by working our butts off everyday, pouring our sweat, blood and tears into the work and by being able to trust ourselves and our ensemble.
Thank you all so very much for taking time to visit us and for reading the writings of a crazy person and don't forget to tune in later this week were I will reveal secrets about vampires!
Jacob Camp plays Lysander in the upcoming production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Thank you all so very much for taking time to visit us and for reading the writings of a crazy person and don't forget to tune in later this week were I will reveal secrets about vampires!
Jacob Camp plays Lysander in the upcoming production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.