🔗 IN BIO. MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!
After last year's sold out success in Scotland, the annual international action intensive RETURNS with an exciting new location, the @accademiadellarte in the heart of Tuscany! @stagefightscotland and @actingactionltd return with four days of sweat and joy, fighting and laughing.
Learn from world-renowned teachers in a world-renowned location, with incredible food, accommodation and activity deals that make your trip equal parts career progression and memorable vacation. Orgs in the industry, enquire directly about group discounts!
Learn Chinese martial arts, fighting for film, sword fighting, intimacy and much more, with teachers from the US, Canada, UK and Italy. It's the perfect way to close out your summer.
See live medieval jousting, learn the tarantella social dance, meet industry professionals, make friends and memories that will last a lifetime.
Book now to avoid disappointment - places are strictly limited.
Our BASSC teachers Rob Myles, Jonathan Leverett, and Zhenya Leverett, in partnership with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland @rcsofficial , brought together an incredible team of international professionals for The Claymore 🛡️⚔️ — an exclusive stage and screen action workshop. The event featured an outstanding line-up, including Joey Ansah, Paul Macdonald, Anita Nittoly, Suzanne Smith CDG, Travis Staton-Marrero, Lucy Wild (Frantic Assembly), Tetsuro Shimaguchi and Hiromi Matsumura, and even a Q&A with legendary fight coordinator and BASSC Master-at-Arms Richard Ryan.
🔔 The workshop sold out. This is just the beginning. Stay tuned for announcements.
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The staff team on the final day of The Claymore. Pros from around the world coming together to share skills, perspectives and specialisms with students from Scotland and around the world. One of the objectives for this workshop was to bring the world to Scotland and Scotland to the world. I hope we did that. 🏴🌍
Presenting The Claymore 2025 staff and students. An incredible first international event combining performing arts, martial arts, stunts, and more. Already excited for what's next.
After two days of performance in action, covering swords, guns, knives, intimacy, physical theatre and casting, we celebrated the half-way point with DANCE! 💃🕺🏴
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🔥 CLAYMORE Teacher Spotlight - Suzanne Smith CDG 🔥
Suzanne Smith CDG is a double Emmy-winning casting director renowned for her work on action-packed TV series such as Silo (Apple), Black Sails (Starz), and all eight seasons of Outlander (Starz). With decades of experience, she has also cast acclaimed shows like Good Omens and Carnival Row. Suzanne combines expertise in television and film, consistently delivering dynamic casts for complex, action-driven narratives.
Her class will feature the opportunity to work with dialogue, advice on adapting performance for different genres, how to convey characterisation physically and vocally, and more.
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🔥CLAYMORE Teacher Spotlight🔥
Tetsuro Shimaguchi
Tetsuro Shimaguchi is a “Samurai Artist” pursuing a style that blends the beauty of form, acting, and martial arts.
He starred as an actor as the Crazy 88’s “MIKI”, as well as directing the choreography in Quentin Tarantino's “KILL BILL Vol. 1”.
After the success of KILL BILL, KAMUI has been putting on highly acclaimed performances around the world. They performed in high-profile venues, such as Kennedy Center in the U.S., Teatro Della Pergola and Palazzo Vecchio in Italy, Blue Note in Poland, and many more.
CLASSES
Becoming a Samurai
In Japanese martial arts, and in stage & screen action, the battle has already begun before the first move is made.
Learn authentic Japanese movements, etiquette, the drawing of the sword, stance, footwork, and how to close distance. Understand how these elements create a sense of tension and anticipation in the moment before the fight.
This is a movement-based meditation that allows you to physically experience the essence of what a fight means to those in the Japanese tradition.
Using the Samurai Sword
Learn traditional sword techniques including cutting, deflecting, and guards. Experience the purpose behind each movement and the beauty of the forms that the samurai pursued.
We will explore how these movements can be used to tell a story, and how they can be adapted for a wide range of character expressions inspired by traditional performing arts such as Kabuki.
Kumite and Choreography
Learn offensive and defensive techniques through the Samurai method Kengido's partnered practice (kumite).
There are 15 official kumite forms — in this class, we will select 3 to experience in depth.
This is a choreography-based class that can be applied to scenes such as “duels” or “ambushes.”
Kengido “Master and Disciple”
The true essence of the samurai lies in their spirit. To inherit that spirit requires a lifetime of training in mind, technique, and body.
This class follows the story of Miyamoto Musashi and his adopted son, Iori, on their last day together, and the passing of the sword from master to disciple.
🔥Performance in Action🔥
BOOK HERE: /courses/the-claymore/
The Claymore is coming this summer, and you have an extraordinary breadth of classes to choose from. With two rooms running, you choose the classes that best suit your needs, and to up your skills in a huge range of specialisms. Be trained by some of the best in the business, who have worked on Mission: Impossible, The Boys, Kill Bill, Bourne, Fallout and many more.
What are you most excited about?
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