Commedia Dell' Arte- Day Three

Today we mainly focused on stage combat. We learnt learnt both armed and unarmed combat. We used different swords- The Samari Sword/ Katana:

 



The Epee:

 

The Foil:

 

The Longsword:

 

Here are some stage combat Terms:

http://quizlet.com/11370744/stage-combat-terms-flash-cards/

 

Here is a video on stage combat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us0t1Gw21Xk

 

Here is my youtube video on unarmed stage combat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhwiL2YcXPg

Here is my video on stage combat with swords:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHdOeT3qtjM

 

 

Later we put on a performance with different Commedia characters. I played a female lover, named Isabella. I felt that my improvisation skills weren't as good as they have been recently, so I think that I need to play around with more accents. I also need to remember that the lovers don't snog people. They would move away if someone tried to snog them. The lovers can also kill.

As research for The Commedia Dell' Arte Workshop, I have watched these videos:
Here is an example of the energy needed for Commedia Dell' Arte-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCm9IApf1rA
Here is a cmpilation video of Fawlty Towers, which is quite similar to Commedia, it involves slapstick comedy and Basil has similarities to The Captain and Pantalone, Manuel is similar to a Zanni and Polly is similar to Columbina-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnPunAYRhmo
Here is a video of comic stage combat-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC6dgtBU6Gs
Here is another video of stage combat-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TxP2QIX1VU
Here is a serious stage combat video-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr1vsU-6vuU