in partnership with The B-Bar
Summer Intensive Sessions
Stage Combat with Keith Wallis
For ages 15-25
Join us for an introduction to stage combat with renowned theatre and film fight director Keith Wallis, where we'll be exploring a wide range of techniques in unarmed fighting for the stage.
This course aims to give actors and stage performers a good foundation in the principles of unarmed combat, with a strong emphasis on how to perform fights safely and effectively, and exploring what makes for a good fight scene.
NOTE: Please bring suitable loose clothing for movement work, along with a pair of trainers or dance shoes. You may also wish to bring bottled water with you.
Read about Keith Wallis below
Pay What You Decide
This is a Pay What You Decide workshop, which means you can decide what you pay to attend. We have set a minimum of £15 per course (we pay all our course leaders the ITC rate and this minimum fee will not even cover the cost of half their fee) but if you can afford to pay a little extra to ensure we can continue to offer such opportunities to young people we would be extremely grateful. There is no 'right' answer, we are not attempting to lead you to a specific figure. You can pay £15 per course or you can donate a little extra if you decide to (if you can afford it) by adding an additional value in the Donation box on the next screen when you checkout. From researching similar courses like this in the Plymouth / south west area we can see that it would usually cost £50 per day to attend (so this two day course would cost £100).
Please click below to read about how you can ask for one of our Free Place bursaries available...
Free Places
We also have a number of bursaries (free places) for anyone for whom money is a barrier to them being able to join. There is no judgement and you'll not be asked to answer question after question after question.
If you'd like to chat (confidentially) about having one of our free place bursaries please email Suzie West at suzie@barbicantheatre.co.uk
Meet Your Course Leader: Keith Wallis
Keith has worked as a fight director across theatre and film, with recent credits including work at the Almeida, the Arcola and Theatre Royal Haymarket, stunt coordination for the BAFTA nominated feature film Lady Macbeth starring Florence Pugh, and stunt performances in the TV series Vikings
Over the past twelve years he has worked on a wide range of projects from small scale unarmed choreography and basic falls, to historical sword duels, group fights and mass battles.
Based in the south west, Keith travels all over the UK providing fight choreography for theatre, opera and film production companies, as well as teaching both armed and unarmed stage combat at a number of British acting schools and institutions.
In 2018 Keith co-founded Master at Arms, a non profit organisation dedicated to the tuition of stage combat and the practice and continued development of fight choreography in the creative arts.
Keith's qualifications
BA Hons Degree: East 15 Acting School - Stage Combat & Specialist Performance Skills (2008)
British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat (BASSC) - Advanced Qualifications including: Unarmed, Single Rapier, Rapier & Dagger, Medieval Broadsword, Quarterstaff, Sword & Shield, Smallsword, Knife
British Academy of Dramatic Combat (BADC) - Advanced Qualifications including: Unarmed, Single Rapier, Rapier & Dagger, Medieval Broadsword, Quarterstaff, Sword & Shield, Military Sabre, Smallsword, Knife
keithwallis.com
Image credit: Ziebell Photography, 2019
Keith Wallis Fight Director
Keith Wallis Fight Director
Barbican Theatre's #BardInTheYard Macbeth 2018
Barbican Theatre's #BardInTheYard Macbeth 2018
Barbican Theatre, Plymouth
Barbican Theatre Auditorium