Fight Choreography with Jacquie Loewen

Stage combat is a beautiful combination of tricks, skills, and partnering, which we’ll learn to put together in order to create non-verbal physical poetry. This class will be focusing on “unarmed” moves -ironically, you will use your arms a lot- like punches, chokes, hair pulls, falling, and whatever else the needs of the class brings up! Jacquie will teach a basic compliment of skills, which you’ll then take into making a scene with your partner(s). As a group, we’ll learn what takes a scene from just “skills” to “storytelling.”

About the Facilitator: Jacqueline Loewen is a Canadian theatremaker and founding member of the multiple Canadian Comedy Award-nominated physical sketch group Hot Thespian Action. She has worked extensively as a fight choreographer and movement coach on every stage in Winnipeg, Manitoba, as well as at Bard on the Beach (VAN), CanStage (TO), and Kansas State University (KS). She has won two Winnipeg Theatre Awards for outstanding choreography. She has adapted and directed site-specific operas for Manitoba Underground Opera, Little Opera Company, and Flipside Opera, as well as directed The Telephone/La Voix Humaine, the first show of Manitoba Opera’s 2021-22 season. Jacqueline has created/directed several experimental physical theatre pieces, notably In Time (Theatre Projects Manitoba, producer), La Belle Laide (nominated for Harry S. Rintoul award), and Tree in the Closest Distance (residency at The Sawdust Collector, Vancouver). Jacqueline has been teaching “Live Art Making” in the faculty of Architecture at the University of Winnipeg and at Arts Letters and Numbers residency (Upstate NY).