Power Con 2012

Power Con 2012

Jul 17, 2024

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Fight Direction is an ART and a CRAFT. You don’t become a Fight Director overnight. To do it well requires commitment, diligence, scholarship and research, countless hours of hands-on practice and trial and error investigation into a variety of fighting styles and weaponry. Knowledge is choices and your art is in your choices both as a martial artist and as an action story teller. It’s why I never stop learning and training and sharing knowledge. Fight Directors are in the business of turning adversity into opportunity and that perception and creativity only comes from many years of dedicated study and hands-on experience. 

I love action.  To me it is all acting, whether I am telling my character’s story with words or with deeds.  The best action is a carefully crafted dialogue of movement instead of words between performers and it can be as subtle as a whisper or as dynamic as a scream.  Such opportunities dramatically define the character and invigorate the story, providing the Actor commands the skills to deliver a believable, exciting and safe performance and the Director can bring those images to the stage or to the camera. Action offers unique opportunities to deepen the actor’s performance and viscerally capture and guide the emotions of the audience. A good Fight Director helps make all this possible and it is their job to unite all these assets into a dynamic and satisfying entertainment.

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