Organizations
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British Academy of Dramatic Combat
The BADC is the longest established stage combat teaching organization in the United Kingdom. The BADC also enjoys international recognition as a provider of excellence in teaching quality, curriculum design and assessment rigour.
The BADC is dedicated to the advance of the art of stage combat in all forms of performance media. This includes the provision of training and qualifications in all weapon and combat systems employed throughout the performing arts and entertainment industries including theatre, television, film and new media technologies.
The qualifications awarded by The British Academy of Dramatic Combat are recognized throughout the industry in the UK and set standards of excellence that are respected internationally.
British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat
The British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat was founded in 1993 with the aim of improving the standards of safety, quality and training of stage combat and promoting a unified code of practice for the training, teaching and assessing of stage combat within the United Kingdom.
All BASSC teachers have undergone a rigorous training programme and the examining members of the BASSC are highly qualified, experienced professionals with a tradition of working in theatre, television and film productions such as ALEXANDER, TROY, STARDUST, CLOSER, THE LAST LEGION and THE GOLDEN COMPASS.
Since it’s formation the BASSC has established a reputation as the invigorating driving force behind stage combat in the United Kingdom and is respected, both nationally and internationally, as the leading provider of professional level level stage combat training.
Fight Directors Canada
Fight Directors Canada is the only internationally recognized organization in Canada, teaching safe and dramatic combat since 1993. It is a professional not-for-profit society dedicated to the education, development, advancement, and proficiency of action-oriented entertainment in theatre, television, and film, as well as in educational institutions across the country.
New Zealand Stage Combat Society
Nordic Stage Fight Society
The Nordic Stage Fight Society, is a non-for-profit organisation that currently consists of members from four countries: Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Estonia.
Since 1995 when NSFS was officially founded, the society has offered education, training and research that is recognized internationally. Today there is an increasing need for actors and choreographers to be able to accomplish more and more demanding physical activities for stage and screen.
The NSFS maintains the highest standards of safety while providing an international forum for those interested in the art of staged combat.
Society of American Fight Directors
In the mid-70s when David Boushey returned from studying stage combat in England, he approached the Seattle Repertory Theatre and offered his services as a fight director. "What's a fight director?" asked the artistic director.
"I knew I had my work cut out," recalls the SAFD founder. "As a member of the Society of British Fight Directors (the first American to be inducted into the SBFD) I knew how their organization was structured. And I knew how valuable an asset to the fight community their society was. It was obvious to me that a professional organization would need to be in place if Americans were going to get the respect the British had earned in England."
David contacted several other individuals around the U.S. that he knew to be involved in stage fighting; among them, Erik Fredricksen, Joseph Martinez, Byron Jennings and Rod Colbin, and the Society of American Fight Directors was born.
