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The Tandez Academy of Martial Arts Stage Combat Program (TAMA SCP) is dedicated to promoting safety and fostering excellence in the art of stage combat and theatrical action. The SCP is founded on the principles and methodology of the nation’s top stage combat training organization, the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD). SAFD directors are responsible for choreographing everything from the best Broadway shows, nationally renowned Shakespeare festivals and Hollywood action blockbusters.
TAMA’s SCP will become one of the foremost stage combat training programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. Taught by Fight Choreographer Adrian Tandez, all Stage Combat classes place emphasis on a non-violent approach to stage violence as well as the actor’s rights and responsibilities when required to perform fight scenes.
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Phase 1: Introduction to Stage Combat
Students
will learn to perform fundamental techniques in three basic “fight” disciplines recognized by the SCP. Basic skills will be covered. The emphasis is on the development of technique and the process of the work rather than the performance, with a focus on accuracy, safety, and the fundamental techniques needed to protect the actor and their instrument when engaged in dramatic physical encounters. Each class will emphasize development of the student’s personal command and understanding of their body in relation to theatrical physical conflict while encouraging each student’s personal development and artistic exploration.
Styles of stage combat to be covered will include:
1. Unarmed/Hand to Hand
2. Rapier and Dagger
3. Quarterstaff
4. Knife
5. Single Sword/Swashbuckling
6. Broadsword
7. Sword and Shield |
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Phase 2: Basic Actor Combatant Skills Proficiency
This is an intensive course focusing on training students in the compulsory techniques required for the SCP Actor Combatant Skills Proficiency Test (SPT) in unarmed, rapier & dagger and broadsword. Students will spend over thirty hours learning to safely perform fight choreography in each of the three “fight” disciplines, as well as additional classes in other weapon styles. Although the primary focus of this course is the learning of techniques and choreography containing the compulsory techniques required for the SPT, the class also focuses on developing partnering skills and expanding the artist’s imagination and ability to use these skills to make their stage combat work more connected and truthful. Working in a studio format, students will explore character objectives and beat work within the fight, and are coached/rehearsed through their fight scenes. The course concludes in a presentation of the fight scenes for adjudication by Adrian Tandez. |
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Tandez Academy of Martial Arts