About this Event
Redirect Violence: Flow Through Fight Scenes
What happens when we approach a fight scene through flow rather than force?
This is a movement workshop for actors and movement practitioners who are curious about fight scenes and looking for a gentle, embodied way into physical interaction.
Drawing from Tai Chi - Chinese internal martial arts, the workshop explores the relationship between intention, qi and movement — how intention initiates action, how qi carries it through the body, and how movement can flow between partners.
We will explore principles of connection, redirection, timing, weight and responsiveness, and apply them to fight choreography and physical storytelling.
The workshop is an opportunity to approach fight scenes not simply as a sequence of techniques, but as a form of dynamic physical interaction — where attention, intention and movement are constantly responding to one another.
No previous fight experience is required. The work is approached through curiosity, awareness and listening to the body.
Led by Jin Chen
Jin Chen is an actor, movement director and fight director specialising in Chinese internal martial arts. He works across theatre and screen, and currently teaches at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and UAL Wimbledon.
Date: Saturday 17 October
Time: 11:30-14:30
Location: Hackney, London
Suitable for: Actors, performers, movement practitioners, and anyone interested in exploring fight scenes through movement and physical interaction.
Event venue & nearby stays
Create Destroy Studios - Sugar House Island, Sugar House Island, London, United Kingdom
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