CORE-terstaff

Name: CORE-terstaff
Start: 2025-02-23T10:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-23T12:00:00-05:00
Location: The Noble Blades

Schedule

Sun Feb 23 2025 at 10:30 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Noble Blades | Herndon, VA

$35 Registration
Discounts Available - Please contact us to request
This class is 18 +
Taught by Jenny Male
Welcome to the exciting world of Staff fighting! Learn to handle the weapon with ease while using your core to maneuver the stick into successful attacks and parries. Different historical staff styles will be covered as well as a few Hollywood tricks just for fun.
Class Level: Open
Sunday, Feb 23, 2025 @ 10:30am to 12noon
at the Reston Players’ Lindsay C. Petersen Rehearsal Hall
264 Sunset Park Drive, Herndon, Va 20170
Jenny Male (she/her) is a Certified Teacher and Fight Director with the Society of American Fight Directors. She has served as the Fight Choreographer for such DC/Baltimore theatres as Ford’s Theatre, Studio Theatre, Arena Stage, Constellation Theatre Company, Rep Stage, Washington Stage Guild, Everyman Theatre, Factory 449, Adventure Theatre, Imagination Stage, Maryland Opera Studio, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Maryland Lyric Opera, and Toby’s Dinner Theatre. In 2002, Jenny earned her MFA in Theatre Pedagogy with an emphasis in Movement & Fight Direction from Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2018, she received the SAFD President’s Award and was elected to serve as the Certified Teacher representative for the SAFD Governing Body 2019-2021. Jenny taught at the National Stage Combat Workshop in 2022 (Sword & Shield) and 2023 (Staff) and has taught at several SAFD regional workshops including the Summer Sling, Philadelphia Stage Combat Workshop, Tourist Trap, Carnage in the Corn, the MAC, Virginia Beach Bash, and the Mid-Atlantic Melee. Jenny is Associate Professor of Theatre at Howard Community College.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the class, payment, safety, or any other topic, please email [email protected] or contact us here.