Workshop Instructors
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Jared
Kirby
has been involved in Western Martial Arts and Combat for
Stage & Screen for over fifteen years.
He has trained across the US and
Europe with some of the finest instructors in this Art. As a
stage combat artist he has worked with several organizations
and taken certification tests with the BADC and SAFD.
Ultimately, Jared found his home with the Art of Combat
which merged his passion for historical fencing with his
love of combat for stage and screen.
He is currently the fencing instructor at
SUNY Purchase and also teaches and trains at the
Martinez Academy of Arms
in New York City. He teaches a variety of workshops
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US and around the world
including
Canada, England,
Scotland, Finland and Italy. He has taught at the
Paddy
Crean International Art of the Sword Workshop,
the International Swordfighting and Martial Arts Convention
(ISMAC),
Rapier Camp
and the
Western Washington WMA Workshop
just to name a few.
Jared is the editor and one of the translators of “Italian
Rapier Combat”, the first complete, professional
translation of Capo Ferro. He is also the editor and wrote
the introduction for “The School of Fencing” by
Domenico Angelo and annotated by Maestro Jeannette
Acosta-Martínez.
For more information, see
Martinez Academy of Arms
or
Amazon.com.
He
is the co-coordinator of the International Swordfighting and
Martial Arts Convention in Detroit, MI. This workshop,
created in 2000, brings together the finest instructors from
around the world for one of the largest annual Western
Martial Arts workshops. Jared is also a member of the
Association for Historical Fencing.
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John
"Doc" Lennox has trained in various forms of swordplay for
over 25 years. Beginning with the katana, he later moved
into the western weapon styles. Through his involvement in
stage combat for theatre over the past 24 years he began to
study a myriad of weapons. He is a Fight Director for Art of
Combat, and has taught stage combat at Lansing Community College,
Jackson Community College Wayne State University, Centenary
College, Spring Arbor University and Purdue
University.
In October of 1999 he began his studies in
historical fencing. Working with such instructors as Maestro
Ramon Martinez, Maestro Jeannette Acosta Martinez, Maestro
Paul Macdonald, Dwight McLemore and Stefan Dieke, he
decided to utilize Art of Combat to bridge the gap
between stage combat
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and historically accurate combat. He brought this
philosophy to the members of Art of Combat, and AoC now
holds as their mission to choreograph works that are
exciting to watch, safe to perform, and as true as possible
to the historical style represented.
John has choreographed over 100 productions
and several films. Most recently he worked as the stunt
coordinator and lead actor for the film "Dog", and stunt
coordinator on "Auteur Theory".
He is an instructor with the Historical
Maritime Combat Association, specializing in Single vs.
Double Weapons, Naval Smallsword and combat against multiple
opponents. He is also an instructor with the Historical
Martial Study Society, and an Expert level knife instructor
with the School of Two Swords.
He is the
author of A History of Stage Swordplay:
Shakespeare to the Birth of Film and is also
working on a book on boarding tactics from the 17th through
19th centuries entitled By Sword and Tomahawk with
Gareth Thomas and Steve Huff.
John travels throughout the world teaching
at some of the most prestigious workshops in stage and
historical combat. He is also regularly called in to teach
workshops and choreograph productions at colleges and
universities throughout the United States. He holds a PhD in
Theatre with cognate studies in historical fencing from
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Kyle Rowling is a
professional Actor, Director,
Weapons Master and Fight
Director. He has twenty-five
years experience in various
Martial Arts including Chinese
and Japanese styles and has been
working as a Fight Director for
over a decade. In that time he
has trained, choreographed and
performed Stage Combat for STC,
Opera Australia, Ensemble
Theatre, Belvoir St, Marion St,
Bell Shakespeare, the David
Atkins Group, Sydney Shakespeare
Globe and many more.
He also teaches and choreographs
regularly at most of Sydney’s
top acting institution including NIDA, VCA, the Actors College of
Theatre and Television, the
Actors Centre Australia and The
Australian Theatre for Young
People. Kyle’s Stage Combat and
performance skills have also
secured him work in many theatre
and film productions including
“Star Wars EP II and III” as
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Christopher Lee’s fight double, Eric Bana’s personal weapons
trainer for “Troy”, fight
director and performer for the
2000 production of “Pan”
at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre
and the 2001 New York tour of
STC's “The White Devil”.
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