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Actors on Guard

Training, Rehearsal and Performance Techniques with the Rapier and Dagger for the Stage and Screen

By: Dale Anthony Girard

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Actors on Guard

Training, Rehearsal and Performance Techniques with the Rapier and Dagger for the Stage and Screen

By: Dale Anthony Girard

Actors on Guard, Second Edition is the most comprehensive book covering the current practices in learning, rehearsing and performing safe and dynamic swordfights with the single rapier and the rapier and dagger for both stage and screen. Focusing specifically on the Elizabethan rapier and dagger – the most popular weapons used in stage fights – Actors on Guard provides actors, directors, teachers, stage managers and technicians the skills and knowledge essential to presenting safe and effective swordfights. The book takes the reader through the complex process of selecting safe stage weapons, learning the basic handling and management of the rapier and dagger, as well as how to safely move and interact in the potentially dangerous process of learning, rehearsing and performing choreographed swordplay. This new edition has been revised with current industry practices, featuring hundreds of step-by-step practical exercises in the care and handling of prop swords, footwork, guards, parries, cutting and thrusting techniques, blade taking actions, disarms, wounds and kills using the rapier and dagger, with revised diagrams and photographs. An excellent sourcebook for university stage combat classes as well as self-learners, Actors on Guard provides the reader with the historical, theoretical and practical basis for mastering the art of sword fighting for the stage and screen. The book includes access to a wealth of online resources, with additional information that expands upon specific mechanics, techniques and concepts covered in the text as well as some video demonstrations of solo and partnered techniques and exercises.

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Routledge

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1000399052

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Actors on Guard

A Practical Guide for the Use of the Rapier and Dagger for Stage and Screen

By: Dale Anthony Girard

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Actors on Guard

A Practical Guide for the Use of the Rapier and Dagger for Stage and Screen

By: Dale Anthony Girard

Actors on Guard" is the most comprehensive and detailed book on the art of theatrical swordplay available today. It provides the reader with the historical, theoretical and practical basis for learning, practicing and presenting theatrical sword fights. Focusing specifically on the Elizabethan rapier and dagger (the most popular weapons used in stage fights), "Actors on Guard" provides actors, directors, teachers, stage managers and technicians the skills and knowledge essential to presenting safe and effective fights, both for stage and screen. "Actors on Guard" takes the reader through the complex process of selecting safe stage weapons, learning the basic handling and maintenance of the rapier and dagger, as well as how to safely move and interact in the potentially dangerous process of theatrical swordplay. This unique book provides the reader with hundreds of practical exercises in the care and handling of stage weapons, and is fully illustrated with over 250 detailed line-drawings and historical plates. Included are sections on footwork, guards, parries, cutting and thrusting techniques, blade taking actions, disarms, kills and wounds with the sword, and all are described in great detail with every safetly precaution spelled out to avoid any accident or injury. "Actors on Guard" also takes its techniques out of the classroom and onto the stage by providing information on melding the acting process with mechanics of a stage fight and procedures for safely rehearsing and running a fight within a production.

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Psychology Press

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0878300570

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9780878300570

Actors on Guard

Training, Rehearsal and Performance Techniques with the Rapier and Dagger for the Stage and Screen

By: Dale Anthony Girard

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Training, Rehearsal and Performance Techniques with the Rapier and Dagger for the Stage and Screen

By: Dale Anthony Girard

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