Stage Combat Courses at the LPAC

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Stage Combat Courses at the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre

The Academy of Performance Combat presents two weekends of Stage Combat at the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre in February and March.
If you’d like to try your hand for the first time, or you already have experience, each weekend offers you the chance to learn the techniques of stage combat with Andrew Ashenden, a professional Fight Director.
Whether you want to discover Unarmed (February) or Armed (March) Stage Combat there’s a weekend for you. Both weekends offer experience at Basic, Intermediate or Advanced Levels and offer you the chance to learn techniques in a safe environment. So if you’re a professional Actor, you’re involved in Amateur Dramatics, or you’d just like to explore the secrets behind film and television’s fight scenes, there’s a weekend for you.
Each weekend costs between £75 and £135, depending on the level of skills you want to pick up, and is open to participants aged 18 and over.
For more information on either course please contact Andrew Ashenden on 07928 324706 or go to http://www.theapc.org.uk/courses/
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Unarmed Stage Combat is a largely non-contact practice. A.P.C. Instructors are rigorously trained in delivering clear, precise and safe workshops to course participants. Instructors will only allow participants to proceed with Techniques once the workshop’s health and safety guidelines are clearly understood by all participants.
Correctly executed Techniques will look convincing and theatrically violent. Unarmed Stage Combat, however, helps to create and maintain that illusion. It does not teach real fighting Techniques.
Andrew Ashenden has worked as an Equity Fight Director for over a decade in Television, Film and Theatre.  Clients include BBC Wales, Welsh National Opera, The National Theatre of Wales, Bristol Old Vic, Theatre Royal Bath, The Globe, Birmingham Stage Company and Harrogate Theatre. Andrew is also an Equity Registered Fight Director and Founding Member of the Academy of Performance combat (A.P.C). Resident Fight Instructor for G.S.A, The Bridge, University of Lincoln and Royal Academy of Music (R.A.M), Andrew has also authored two books on stage combat.