High Falls from Low Places

$35 Registration
Discounts Available - Please contact us to request
This class is Ages 18 +
Taught by Robb Hunter
High Falls are not just for action films! Although to be fair, most live theatre "high falls" occur at under ten feet, which is still quite a way to go! In this three hour exploration, students will learn how to safely fall from heights up to eight feet (or so) utilizing various postures/methods of landing. The students will explore landing techniques at very low heights and gradually increase the distance at the pace/discretion of each individual.
Class Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Sunday, January 17, 2027 @ 9am to 12pm EST
at the Reston Players’ Lindsay C. Petersen Rehearsal Hall
264 Sunset Park Drive, Herndon, Va 20170
Robb Hunter is a fight master and theatrical firearms instructor for the Society of American Fight Directors, as well as a long-time member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Robb is also honored to serve on the Governing Body as fight director representative. Professionally, he is an award-winning movement and fight director and has choreographed violence/movement for many D.C. theatres including The Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage, Center Stage, Washington National Opera, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, The Studio Theatre, Olney Theatre, The Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Rep Stage, and Washington Shakespeare Company, among others. Robb holds an MFA in theatre pedagogy from the Virginia Commonwealth University and is currently the combat instructor for the Shakespeare Theatre’s one-year intensive MFA program, the Academy for Classical Acting. He is also an artist in residence at American University where he choreographs, directs and has taught movement, mime, stage combat, acting and various sections of theatre history. In addition, he teaches stage combat for McDaniel College, the MFA program at Catholic University and he is a teaching artist for The Shakespeare Theatre and for the Acting Conservatory at The Studio Theatre. When he is not teaching or directing violence he is “enabling” it through his theatrical weapons rental company, Preferred Arms, Inc., which supplies swords, knives and assault rifles to theatres and universities nationwide (www.preferredarms.com).