Positioning for Audience in Stage Combat

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So now that we know the three basic types of naps for slapping and punching and also we know what a nap is and you can use a nap for any kind of action, we're going to go over positioning for the audience. Now, the key thing to remember about positioning is that you don't want the audience to know what you're actually doing. When I should you how to do this, if you are the audience you wouldn't want to see me slapping my own hand or slapping Shaun's hand or Shaun slapping his own hand, you would want to be faithed to believe that I really slapped or punched Shaun. So, that's where positioning comes in. Now, we're going to pretend that you're the audience because right now you are. So what we're going to do is, I'm going to show just two different kinds of positioning. So the first one that we'll show you is having the attackee with their back to the audience and this is really straight on. You probably seen the old Batman TV shows with the big biffs and pows and everything. So I'll show you real quick with a slap and I'll do the nap. So remember, shoulders, eye contact, wind up and there you go. You weren't able to see me slap my own hand. Another one is the reverse where I slap Shaun and he's facing the audience and my back is to you. So again, we're going to do hands on shoulders, rear back after we've made eye contact and back and you didn't see it and usually I would drop my hand, but I kind of quit. And that is the basic positioning. Now aside from just going straight on, you can go to an angle which ever you can go. You can go all the way to 3/4 angle like this and still get away with it. If you do it correctly and that's when the different types of naps come in. Like for this where I'm closer to the audience and my back is sort of facing, we probably want to use one where I do the nap since my back is mostly facing. So, again we do this, eye contact, rear. Now if it was the opposite and we were like this and I was slapping Shaun, what we would do is have Shaun do the nap so it would look like this. Eye contact, back and that's basically it except we would probably do it like this where Shaun goes the other way and naps upstage so that the audience doesn't see his nap. That is the basics of positioning and again once you get a good idea of what you're doing start be creative with it. Always know what you're doing, always take your time, always go slow, but tailor it to your own scene or your own fight and then you start coming up with all kinds of new stuff and you always want the audience to not know what you're doing.

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