engaging their heart and soul with
this dramatic presentation and it
is on that level that the violence
must affect them.
Can you briefly describe a fight
using “found weaponry”? Found
weapons are when you turn whatever happens to be lying around
into a weapon. For example, an
umbrella can easily be used as a
sabre and a screwdriver or newspaper has similar properties to a
long knife. When characters pick
up what’s next to them and use it
as a weapon you can create some
extremely visceral fights. It is not
difficult to understand how to do
this either. In fact, one of my favorite classes to teach is called
“Found Weapons Made Easy.” In
this seminar I ask the participants
to bring different items that don’t
seem like weapons and then they
learn how to identify the categories each will fall into. After that,
with a little combat training, they
can start to work on choreography utilizing each. That may be an
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