Comings and Goings

The biggest news, if hopefully not the biggest surprise, is that I am now (as of last Friday) a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors: Transition certainly, but neither beginning nor ending of anything really. I look forward to teaching cert classes, getting to go to workshops for free (at some point […]

Last day of Sword & Shield Teaching

Today was the last day of teaching for the National Stage Combat Workshop, and I’m proud of the work my Intro to Stage Combat kids did. These are all young men & women who had little to no stage combat experience coming in to this workshop, I believe, and had just a week of classes […]

Swashing the Buckles

This video was something I assembled as a portion of the history presentation segment of the Teacher Certification Workshop. We went more in to the choreographers involved at the time (Cavens, Faulkner, Anderson, Uyttenhove, Heremans, and of course Paddy Crean), but I figured the video would be a good stand-alone introduction for anyone else interested. […]

Shiney!

Just a quick peek at the wares on sale at merchandise night (last night) here at the 2012 SAFD National Stage Combat Workshop: No, I didn’t buy anything- can’t afford to. That said, one of these days I’d love to be able to afford a Lewis Shaw smallsword as a personal toy, and the engraved […]

Super heroes

Sometimes, the world needs a superhero. Sadly, we don’t always get one.   I am saddened and appalled by the actions of lone deranged gunman James Holmes, who early today opened fire in a crowded theatre that was showing the new Batman movie. Many will approach this with politics or legislation or civil institutions in […]

Report from the TCW

Having a great time at the Teacher Certification Workshop with the SAFD, a bi-or-tri-annual part of the annual National Workshop. I have not been able to attend the nationals before – three weeks is a big chunk of time to get free, and the cost of a three week workshop is proportionally larger than your […]

We’re off to see the wizards…

I’m really not sure if I’ll be updating more or less in the coming three weeks. Tomorrow morning I head off for the SAFD Teacher Certification Workshop. It’s been a long time coming, and yet still managed to kinda sneak up on me, especially with the nasty sickness that has been running through my family […]

CLANG

There was a post I was going to write… continuing a theme on this blog about personal and communal self-defense. The problem was it was a bit too close to home, taking place in my old stomping grounds of Seattle, and involving the death of several members of the artistic community there. That post may […]

Daughter/Documentarian

Revisiting an old gig here… Last February I was working on Macbeth at Richmond Shakespeare, directed by Jan Powell, then visiting from Portland, now interim Artistic Director for Richmond Shakes (and still going back and forth). It was a great gig, and I very much enjoyed the chance to work with Ryan and Andrew on […]

New Faces of Theatre

In my current stomping ground of Richmond, VA, two of the major local theatres have merged, Voltron style; Theatre IV and Barkesdale are now becoming Virginia Rep. This seems to be a pattern, as I know both of them absorbed others before I moved here, but the respectability and hopefully financial power of a true […]