Post by schlager7 on Dec 26, 2008 15:25:18 GMT -6
from my email...
As you know by now, the National Stage Combat Workshop has consolidated back into a single location, and will be held only at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. This was a difficult decision for the Governing Body, as I’m sure you can imagine. Many of us have fond memories of our time in Vegas, and leaving UNLV, the dorms, and the strip, is akin to moving away from home and leaving the only place that you’ve known as your own. It’s difficult, and a little scary. You can be confident, however, that while the location may change, the training, the camaraderie, and the NSCW experience will be as fun and as intense as ever. Certainly there is an unknown horizon ahead, but it is full of exciting possibilities.
For 2009, the SAFD will be offering Introduction to Stage Combat (ISC), the Actor Combatant Workshop (ACW), and the Advanced Actor Combatant Workshop (AACW). Although the Intermediate Workshop will not be offered this year, it is our hope that the AACW application requirements will allow many students access to advanced training. We have the space at UNCSA to actually create several groups in the AACW, so students can be sure to receive focused instruction with enough room to move a sword around.
The ISC and ACW will continue with their tried and true formats-the ISC will cover 10.5 hours of all eight SAFD disciplines, supplemented with master classes and movies, and the ACW will focus on training and SPTs in Unarmed, Rapier and Dagger, and Broadsword.
One innovation that we have planned for the AACW in 2009 is that in addition to the SPT coursework that you have come to expect from the AACW, we will be adding an emphasis on Performance and Fight Choreography. Basically, for one class per day, you will be able to choose a track that focuses specifically either on performance or on choreography, and receive additional training in that area. The same scenes will be explored in both tracks, allowing for a thorough exploration from both a performance as well as a choreography perspective. While it is impossible to be all things to all people, people have different reasons for attending the AACW; it is our hope that creating these two tracks will enable you to focus on the subjects that are the most important to you.
As a reminder, all SAFD members are eligible for tuition discounts, based on years of membership. Discounts start at 5% for one year of membership, and go up by 5% per year, to a maximum of 25%. If you have been a member for 2 years, for example, your discount would be 10%, and so on. SAFD members can also find in this edition of the Cutting Edge the application requirements for partial and full scholarships, sponsored by the SAFD. For further information about all of the SAFD workshops, including application requirements, please check out the SAFD website at www.safd.org.
The NSCW, in many ways, is the glue that holds the SAFD together. Regardless of what else is going on in the SAFD or in the world, a group of us (or two) gets together in July and creates incredible theatre. Mike Chin and Linda McCollum have created a fun and supportive atmosphere in Vegas over the past years, and Dale and I will work our butts off to do the same in North Carolina. We take the reins from the NSCW West with a full understanding of the responsibilities, as well as the importance of this transition. We are honored to be trusted with such an important task.
We appreciate all your patience as we work through all our new changes for 2009. I promise you the continued best training and staffing that the SAFD can offer, and will do everything in my power to make the NSCW at UNCSA the same exciting, humbling, change-your-vision-of–theatre experience for you that NSCW at UNLV was for me.
If you have any questions at all, please drop me a line at nscwcoordinatorATsafd.org.
Fraternally,
Angela Bonacasa
NSCW Coordinator
As you know by now, the National Stage Combat Workshop has consolidated back into a single location, and will be held only at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. This was a difficult decision for the Governing Body, as I’m sure you can imagine. Many of us have fond memories of our time in Vegas, and leaving UNLV, the dorms, and the strip, is akin to moving away from home and leaving the only place that you’ve known as your own. It’s difficult, and a little scary. You can be confident, however, that while the location may change, the training, the camaraderie, and the NSCW experience will be as fun and as intense as ever. Certainly there is an unknown horizon ahead, but it is full of exciting possibilities.
For 2009, the SAFD will be offering Introduction to Stage Combat (ISC), the Actor Combatant Workshop (ACW), and the Advanced Actor Combatant Workshop (AACW). Although the Intermediate Workshop will not be offered this year, it is our hope that the AACW application requirements will allow many students access to advanced training. We have the space at UNCSA to actually create several groups in the AACW, so students can be sure to receive focused instruction with enough room to move a sword around.
The ISC and ACW will continue with their tried and true formats-the ISC will cover 10.5 hours of all eight SAFD disciplines, supplemented with master classes and movies, and the ACW will focus on training and SPTs in Unarmed, Rapier and Dagger, and Broadsword.
One innovation that we have planned for the AACW in 2009 is that in addition to the SPT coursework that you have come to expect from the AACW, we will be adding an emphasis on Performance and Fight Choreography. Basically, for one class per day, you will be able to choose a track that focuses specifically either on performance or on choreography, and receive additional training in that area. The same scenes will be explored in both tracks, allowing for a thorough exploration from both a performance as well as a choreography perspective. While it is impossible to be all things to all people, people have different reasons for attending the AACW; it is our hope that creating these two tracks will enable you to focus on the subjects that are the most important to you.
As a reminder, all SAFD members are eligible for tuition discounts, based on years of membership. Discounts start at 5% for one year of membership, and go up by 5% per year, to a maximum of 25%. If you have been a member for 2 years, for example, your discount would be 10%, and so on. SAFD members can also find in this edition of the Cutting Edge the application requirements for partial and full scholarships, sponsored by the SAFD. For further information about all of the SAFD workshops, including application requirements, please check out the SAFD website at www.safd.org.
The NSCW, in many ways, is the glue that holds the SAFD together. Regardless of what else is going on in the SAFD or in the world, a group of us (or two) gets together in July and creates incredible theatre. Mike Chin and Linda McCollum have created a fun and supportive atmosphere in Vegas over the past years, and Dale and I will work our butts off to do the same in North Carolina. We take the reins from the NSCW West with a full understanding of the responsibilities, as well as the importance of this transition. We are honored to be trusted with such an important task.
We appreciate all your patience as we work through all our new changes for 2009. I promise you the continued best training and staffing that the SAFD can offer, and will do everything in my power to make the NSCW at UNCSA the same exciting, humbling, change-your-vision-of–theatre experience for you that NSCW at UNLV was for me.
If you have any questions at all, please drop me a line at nscwcoordinatorATsafd.org.
Fraternally,
Angela Bonacasa
NSCW Coordinator