Falling for Performers
A step-by-step guide to sustainable and captivating performance.
Learn how to fall in a way that doesn’t hurt you
and tells a story for the audience.
You’ve booked a show, and you’re so excited! Reading the script, you remember that your character has to fall .. or pass out, get knocked out, get pushed to the ground… and you can’t remember how to do it, or you never learned.
You’re not sure what do to next! Book a private coaching? Watch some youtube videos?
You want specifics on how to fall so that it looks great, but it doesn’t hurt you.
This is the course that will give you those basics AND the additional details so that your character falls as part of the action (and it doesn’t look “stagey”).
To help you learn how to fall for performance, this course breaks it down into simple steps.
- Set up your workspace: context is important! Set yourself up for success.
- Practice! At each phase of falling, try the tools to help you to find the movement in your body with some flow and ease.
- We work on options for how to act the fall, so that you gain confidence with a variety of ways to do it (and it doesn’t look like a technical exercise in the middle of your performance).
- Try it out! Play with your new tools. Try out the given examples and come up with your own! There's numerous ways to fall and countless stories to tell!
By the end of this course, you should have confidence with a variety of ways to fall, so that your action suits your character and the scene.
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What people have said about this material
"This course was super informative, helpful and interesting!!"
"This course emphasizes safe practice, and also uses acting and intention as a root for the movement, which makes it a lot easier to recall and further execute the choreography. Stage combat is super accessible when done like this."
Learn this essential skill
on your own time and
in the space of your choosing!
What people are saying about the instructor
"Stage combat is an essential part of the actor's toolkit, and Siobhan is an excellent teacher of it."
"Siobhan Richardson is an expert in her field that taught the basics of stage combat with such precision, that you can only find this with an expert of her caliber.... She is an absolute delight to work with."
Your Instructor
Siobhan Richardson is an internationally-recognized Fight Director, an Intimacy Director (a pioneer voice in this specialty across Canada), an award-winning actor/fighter/singer/dancer and an "industry legend" (Intermission Magazine). Her teaching career has spanned Canada, USA and Europe. She’s been both a student and a teacher online for over a decade.
Siobhan’s work as a Fight Director and Intimacy Director has been seen on some of Canada’s premiere stages, as well as around the world through online performance and education. She was recently awarded an Arts Response Initiative Project Grant to create online Stage Combat study, and would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
Passionately curious, Siobhan continues to pursue her own training, and is continually experimenting, drawing from arts and science for the betterment of our performances, rehearsal practices and the spaces we work in. She Practices that foster joyful workspaces for vulnerable and creative work has been a particular focus of the last several years.