Fight is a tool to tell the story.
Fight is an acting tool as important as any other. Like dance, music, light, and sound design, fight direction is an integral part of production. Brianna Love is a trained fight director, instructor, and member of the Association of Acting Coaches and Educators (AACE).
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Fight Direction
Fight is so much more than choreography. It brings unique information and choices to performances and characters. Brianna works alongside a director and cast to direct the fights as a true acting scene, and create a multifaceted performance.
Workshops and Private Lessons
Having taught workshops for colleges, universities, and theatre companies, Brianna has a range of experience and options for a workshop. Private lessons give you one-on-one learning, knowledge and feedback, to help fast track improving your skills.
Intimacy Direction
Brianna has worked in intimacy since the start of her career, first as the fight director, where the two intersect and additional training in Canada and the US once the industry began to change. She is a member of Open Intimacy Creatives.
Classes
In 2016 Brianna co-founded Violence in Motion, a fight training company based in Toronto, ON. Along with co-founders Julia Dyan, Neil Adams, and Jamie Treschak, she teaches regular classes and workshops with VIM. A member of the ACCE, Brianna values the responsibility she has for her students’ physical and emotional safety.
Past Clients:
Dynamic Storytelling
A slap. A fall. A duel. Each of these situations bring new layers to the story. Staged Combat shouldn’t be a break from the story, but an integral piece, helping to move the story along, and add dimension to the characters. Creating these levels, to thrill the audience, is the best part of the job.
Safety is Centre Stage
Creating a space space in order to be able to take emotional risks is the job of every theatre and film professional. A fight director’s job is to create safety, and protect the performers on set and stage. As a member of the AACE, Brianna has made a commitment to not only to the physical safety of the performers in her rehearsal, but also the emotional safety.
