February 2025 Standard Level Intensive

Rapier & Dagger, and Unarmed: For Beginners

Suitable for beginners to stage combat or those with no previous British Academy of Dramatic Combat (BADC) qualifications, or those wishing to renew an expired BADC Standard (Level 1) certificate.

Learn the basics of swordplay and unarmed combat for stage and screen. You’ll focus on how to move your body safely and effectively with and without a weapon in order to tell a violent story with accuracy and dynamic action. You will learn how to communicate with a fight partner in the moment and how action and text affect one another as you work towards the performance of a fight scene.

DATES:
Monday 3rd to Friday 7th and Monday 10th to Wednesday 12th February 2025
9am - 5pm. No classes on weekends; Monday classes finish at 4pm.
VENUE:
The Thanet Youth & Community Centre, Malden Road, Herbert St, London NW5 4HD.
Beginners to stage combat or those with no previous British Academy of Dramatic Combat (BADC) qualifications, or those wishing to renew an expired BADC Standard (Level 1) certificate.

WEAPONS COVERED:
This course will cover Renaissance Rapier & Dagger and Unarmed combat techniques.
This is an intensive course in which students will spend up to 50 hours learning to safely perform fight choreography in each of the prescribed fight disciplines. The nature of this course is on combat in performance, and as such it will also focus on acting skills, with students working on incorporating their fight choreography into dramatic scenes. Exploring topics such as character intention, fight rhythm and staging, students will learn to create a fight in which they are connected and truthful in order to deliver an engaging and dramatic piece of theatre to an audience.
Students will have the opportunity at the end of the course to certify with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat at Standard level. The test fee is included in the course price.

FEE:
Early Bird Offer: £325 (Early Bird Discount ends 1st January 2025)
BADC, BASSC, APC, Equity, Spotlight, NUS membership: £350
Standard Price: £375
Single Weapon Price: £225 (Specify preference to take the single weapon option when completing booking form)