Swordplay for Stage and Screen with Fight Director Lyndall Grant (Melbourne - In Person)

Details

  • 15 April 2025
    6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Dancehouse Carlton, 150 Princes St, Carlton North VIC 3054
Applications Open 24 March 2025 8:00 am
Applications Close 9 April 2025 10:00 am
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Synopsis

This workshop will explore the foundations of using a single sword for theatre, film, tv or motion capture.  Performing staged combat with swords involves a lot of technical skills for safety and story-telling, and it can be a lot to absorb in rehearsal on the job.  This session will you give you a head start on these techniques, with an understanding of the key principles and tips for bringing out your best work under pressure. What you learn can then also be applied across a range of modern theatrical weapons (swords or otherwise).  Above all, it will be a super fun session where you can throw yourself into energetic performance and heightened scenes.  Please note - by necessity places are limited.  Please only apply if you are committed to taking part if you are successful. This is an in person workshop being held in Melbourne.

Host(s)

  • Lyndall Grant

    Lyndall Grant is a fight director, movement director, actor and motion capture specialist. She trained in acting at London’s ArtsEd School of Acting and then specialised in fight performance and movement from 2007. Lyndall is an accredited teacher with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat and a member of the Society of Australian Fight Directors. In 2013 she founded Captivate Action, which trains actors in stage/screen combat and motion capture in Australia and the U.K. Lyndall was recently a guest instructor at the Paddy Crean International Stage Combat Workshop in Canada, and teaches regularly at the Victorian College of the Arts and 16th Street Actors Studio. Recent fight/movement credits include Rusalka (West Australian Opera); Sunset Boulevard, Groundhog Day The Musical, Death of A Salesman, An American in Paris, 2:22 A Ghost Story (GWB); The Picture of Dorian Gray (Michael Cassel Group); Beauty and the Beast (Disney Australia); Topdog-Underdog, The Almighty Sometimes, 37, My Sister Jill, A Very Jewish Christmas Carol, Is God Is, Sunday, As You Like It, Berlin, The Lifespan of a Fact, The Architect, Cosi, Torch the Place, The Lady in the Van, Astroman (Melbourne Theatre Company); Cruel Intentions the Musical (David Venn Enterprises); Nosferatu, Looking for Alibrandi, Atlantis, The Return, Because the Night and Cloudstreet (Malthouse Theatre); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? (Red Stitch). As a performer, Lyndall was Movement Captain, ensemble member, principal role cover and aerialist in Melbourne’s production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child from 2018-2022.

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