Stage combat is costly
I figured a while ago that I would do a free workshop with FASS and KWLT to do some “intro to stage combat”. I was thinking that I would try to make it more actor focused… I didn’t do a great job at that, it’s hard to focus on character representation and exploration in the area of stage fighting. I’m not quite sure how I got reasonably good at it, but I must have done something useful in all those courses I took. Anyway, I had a ton of weapons and had people interact with each other as the characters they would be given the weapon styles they were wielding. Then we got to the bits that everyone loves, the swish-swish ting-ting, the actual attacking and parrying bit. Overall, it was a fun three hours and I am out of practice. I *must* spend more time apprenticing with someone to learn more of their approach. The adventure really began when the class was over and I lugged 200+ lbs of swords to the car. Turns out it had been towed by the UW police because, well, I had parked not really on a spot and not really even on a road. It was a walking path in the middle of campus. I wasn’t overly surprised. Karen came and rescued me from my fate and we loaded up the hatchback and then headed to the police office to get my car back. $70 later, we were heading home. It was a long day that really started yesterday morning at 4am and I’m very tired.
1 comment November 29th, 2006