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Fight Choreography Classes
For Actors & Stunt Players of Stage & Screen
Beginning through Advanced
Stunts · Stage Combat · Weaponry

"…fight choreography to rival a Jackie Chan Film!" - The New York Times *

This year learn stunts/stage combat from the pros.
This is your chance to impress casting people and add important new skills to your repertoire. Learn from professionals whose recent work includes:
One Life To Live
As The World Turns
Nova
Sleepless Nights
The Dueling Accountant
  Current classes: "Hand-to-Hand Fighting" and
"Basic Sword Technique". Please come ready to move!

Cost: $15/class. First class $5

Time: Tuesdays, from 7pm to 9 pm.

Place: MCT, 380 Broadway (between
White St. and Walker, just south of
Canal St. www.MCTNY.org )
The purpose of these classes is to hone and develop the physical skills of actors and stunt people for combat, action and stunts in theater and film. Perform specific stunts and bits of action and develop technique to act and sell the fight or violence. The goal of our stage combat classes is to ensure safety and aid the performer in helping to tell a story.
These classes are on-going and for beginners as well as trained professionals.

The Instructors:
EDWARD JOSEPH WHEELER
Credits include stunts and stunt coordination for 11 films, 9 television shows, including One Life to Live, and over 40 stage productions. Edward has been teaching martial arts since 1988, stunts since 1996 and stage combat in NYC for 4 years. He is an AFAA certified kickboxing instructor, founding member of Fight Builders, and an Awarded Advanced Actor Combatant with the SAFD
LAURIE K MILLER
Laurie has instructed in venues such as, Yale Rep, NYU Tisch School of the arts, Vital Theater Summer Arts Program, Camp Broadway, Vital Voices, Manhattan School of Music, Brooklyn Poly-Tech, Northern Westchester Center for the Arts, Wing Span Arts and ASC.
Some recent credits include stunts for: As the World Turns, FOX network shows such as FOX Files and Sightings. Recent features such as Sleepless Nights and The Dueling Accountant. And she is the resident fight director for Mercury Opera and MCT, a founding member of Fight Builders and an Awarded Advanced Actor Combatant with the SAFD.
*Review for Fight Builder's choreography for New York production of Rikki Tikki Tavi

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