R&D Choreography

11/14/2025

Nathan Clough is awesome. I ... absolutely know I am old because I do not want one of these. I expect some of you folks do, though...

https://www.arms-n-armor.com/blogs/news/shock-knives-for-hema-dagger-work?fbclid=IwY2xjawOEdPNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEerRrg_xaHAA67gZySYtlYdHwHTZPz8MQztAYZ0mwSdXxOAjeUvcaWxWArgfo_aem_gtIvONZiE04dSp8YirIefg

Today we watch Dr. Nathan Clough get electrocuted for science, er, kind of... Shock knives are a martial arts training tool that uses a taser-like electrical current to simulate being cut with a sharp, edged weapon. Arms and Armor sharp Koln Messer As makers of both blunt and sharp edged historical....

04/21/2025

Still room in this workshop coming up at TUTA! Great refresher for anyone just looking to get some fighting in, or a great place to pick up some new all-around-useful fighting skills!

When we think about stage combat, we often think about fighting with swords, knives, quarterstaves, and other weapons. Athough fighting with weapons onstage can be great fun and exciting to watch, modern plays are much more likely to involve confrontations between characters who are unarmed and ofte...

04/12/2025

We will be teaching an unarmed stage combat workshop with TUTA! We will be covering the kind of fighting that we see most often in plays: untrained, unarmed assault. This sort of violence includes such scenarios as domestic violence, brawling, and real world street assault. We will be teaching the fundamental principles that will allow us to keep ourselves and our stage partners safe while portraying visceral, unhinged violence effectively on stage. We will also talk about character intentions, plans, and goals, how they shift throughout the fight, and how they are essential not only for acting the fight but also for learning the choreography.

Come play with us!

When we think about stage combat, we often think about fighting with swords, knives, quarterstaves, and other weapons. Athough fighting with weapons onstage can be great fun and exciting to watch, modern plays are much more likely to involve confrontations between characters who are unarmed and ofte...

09/15/2024

Wooooot!!! Released to press. (Which I guess means it is in the process of being physically printed now)
Another step closer to having one in my hands!

Theatrical Violence Design offers the reader a complete education in the theory and practice of designing violence for the theater. From swordfights to exchanges of gunfire to domestic violence, the theater abounds in physical conflict. The artists who design that violence, sometimes called fight di...

07/14/2023

Here's a look at the Making Of and BTS of our motion capture shoot for War of Being! Subscribe to see the entire UE5 Workflow for creating animations, VFX an...

07/13/2023

Some BTS for War of Being!

07/12/2023

Catch us in the music video for TesseracT’s new single, War of Being! We performed the motion capture for the samurai in the video! Tremendous thanks to Found Format for having us aboard! It was such a fun shoot!

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05/05/2023

Heyo! R&D is planning a class or classes for the summer! Are you interested? What would you like to study? Swashbuckling? Historical combat of some sort (what sort?!?) Unarmed? A variety of "intro to X" with a different thing each class? Would Monday nights be better, or Saturday mornings or afternoons?
On the Red Line or Brown Line better?
Interest in a workshop on violence design, as well as or instead of on some aspect of stage combat?

04/29/2023

I cannot believe that I still hear some folks say that historical combat does not work in performance. Folks who say that should just get out of the way of the folks who make it work. Adorea is always a joy to watch.

Enjoy a new Adorea swordfighting video.A reluctant swordsman is summoned by a brutal duke to participate in a high-stakes duel.To purchase the weapons used i...