CBBC MARRYING MUM AND DAD

Yesterday was a great shoot. Working with the fun people over at CBBC’s Marrying Mum and Dad myself and assistant April Hughes put together a quick sword fight before putting two sisters and presenter Ed Petrie through a introduction to stage combat. They each did very well and hopefully the final result will be a great addition to the show.

Here’s a sneak peak of myself and April working out the choreography for the fight. Its a little rough but it was really nice to be working with this kick ass actress again.

RAD AWARDS FIGTH SEQUENCE

Just before I left for New York I choreographed and performed this fight with April Huges and the very talented Jean-Paul Ly. They are both amazing fighters who I can’t wait to work with again. Jean-Paul is in fact going to be featuring in the new Street Fighter web series and has some of the best kicks I’ve ever seen.

The film was made by Casual Films on behalf of the RAD Awards which are an industry group awarding excellence in corporate video. Who says corporate can’t be creative.

BILLY BUDD IN NEW YORK

During the summer I had the great joy of working on Michael Grandage’s production of Benjamin Britton’s opera Billy Budd. It was a wonderful experience which I’m afraid I did not post about it. I have in fact become rather lazy on that front I have realised. However I imagine a large factor of this lapse is in fact that I have been busy teaching and working on a number of projects, the biggest being Billy Budd and the New York tour.

I am still rather jet lagged but had an amazing time providing the fights for this opera production. Falling from deck to deck, climbing the very impressive set and taking part in some jolly fun knife fights made this a dream job and I can’t thank all those involved enough.  We had some great reviews in The New York Times and other papers which you can find here and I can not wait to go back to the wonderful city of New York.

THE UNDERWATER REALM

I have been part of the Realm Pictures crew for a long time and after two of the most intense years of my life January saw the release of The Underwater Realm. Our most ambitious project to date. The five short films set and shot entirely underwater tell the story of 5 times throughout history when mankind has come into contact with a race of people living under the sea and were made entirely by a volunteer crew lead by director David M Reynolds. As a producer on the project I was instrumental in funding the film, raising over $100,000 through an online crowd funding campaign back in December 2011 as well as taking on roles as the Production Coordinator, Set Builder and of course Stunt Coordinator. The project has been truly life changing and is slowly gaining a cult following online and after a glitzy premiere in Leicester Square is gaining interest from across the globe.
 

All five films are available for free online via youtube and you can watch them all in 4K RIGHT HERE!

CHARD HOME EDUCATION CENTRE

It’s been two weeks since I did my first workshop with Chard Home Education Centre and I am still buzzing from the experience. The students were some of the brightest and most enthused people I have worked with to date. The day long workshop meant we could get a lot of really good work done spending the morning fighting hand to hand and then progressing to swords in the afternoon.

Check out some of the great photos taken by Patrick; a student at the centre with a great passion of photography. I am sure Squire will be working hard to work with more home education groups in the future and I hope to be back in Chard very soon. You can learn more about the great work Chard Home Education Centre on their homepage and see some images from the workshop below.

GLYNDEBOURNE OPERA

For the last 3 months I have had the great privilege of working with the Fight Director Nicholas Hall at The Glyndebourne Opera House on a new production of “Die Meister Singer Von Nurnburg.” With a riot scene involving a cast of over 160 people I’ve had great fun performing and assisting Nick Hall in creating a wonderful sequence which is both brutal and comic.

The production is being directed by world renowned opera director David McVicar and has opened to some great reviews.

Take a look at the production video and see some of the wonderful people that I’ve had the privilege to have been working with.

 

ZOMBLIES HAS BEEN RELEASED

Zomblies was a feature Mark Ruddick worked on before founding Squire Theatre was formed. This was the film which he really cut his teeth on, working with Realm Pictures in creating a balls to the wall zombie action film with only a £10,000 budget. There are plenty of falls, chases, gun shots and even a stunt involving Mark being dragged behind a speeding motorcycle. This was the making of Squire and now the whole feature can be viewed online for free and below

HORDE AT COVENT GARDEN

In early 2011 the wonderful people over at RC Annie founded their very own fight performance team called HORDE. Last week I had the chance to join them for one of their street shows at Covent Garden. Playing the role of Prince Charming, I entered a comedy prize fight against the very talented Lyndall Grant playing the role of Red Riding Hood in an attempt to win the coveted “fairy tale fight trophy.” The crowd was great and I will hopefully be seeing much more of the HORDE team in the future creating more madness and mayhem.