Hannah Montanna
Knife is a common weapon in stage combat choreography. This intensive workshop will teach proper techniques of handling, use, and preparation, and how to choose a safe, good quality knife prop. Material and techniques will be drawn from test requirements for the professional stage combat governing boards of the Nordic Stage Fight Society, Fight Directors Canada and the Society of American Fight Directors. Director, Lighting Designer, Writer, Fight Choreographer. Training includes Fight Directors Canada, Society of American Fight Directors, and the Nordic Stage Fight Society, for whom he has also assisted with test material and advanced syllabus material selection. Recent lighting design work includes 3 out of the past 5 semesters at Vancouver Island University, where he also provides Directed Study mentoring and design instruction. Directorially, recent work includes his adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray for VIU, and Apprentice Directorship for The Winter's Tale at Bard on the Beach. Upcoming work: Once Upon a Mattress (Three Legged Dog Productions), and lighting design for Arctic Action (Harstad, Norway).