Stage Combat

Objective: 

Students will demonstrate an understanding of stage combating by performing a choreographed fight.

Class Level: 

Beginning

Main Concepts: 

Safety, stage combat moves, sound effects

1994 National Standards: 

CONTENT STANDARD 2: Acting by developing, communicating, and sustaining characters in improvisations and informal or formal productions.

Lesson Plans

Lesson 1: Stage Combat Basics

Students will demonstrate an understanding of stage fighting and hand-to-hand fighting moves by performing a small fight that incorporates the three types of break falls.

Lesson 2: Choreographing a Fight

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the basic punches, slaps, knaps, and kicks of stage combat and how to use these techniques by choreographing their own fight scene.

Lesson 3: Acting the Fight

Students will demonstrate an understanding of how to use acting techniques by rehearsing a teacher-choreographed fight and adding their own fight choreography.

Lesson 4: Rehearsal/Performance Day

Students will demonstrate an understanding of how to safely rehearse, perform, and write down a choreographed fight by performing their choreographed fight, turning a written notation of the fight and taking a quiz.

Stage Combat Unit of Lessons.Kathy Bruderer