Choreographed combat

Roberta Brown is an American swordmaster and actress.

Nick Gillard is an English stunt man and coordinator. He is best known as the technical lightsaber choreographer and stunt coordinator of the Star Wars prequels.

Stage combat or fight choreography is a specialised technique in theatre designed to create the illusion of physical combat without causing harm to the performers. It is employed in live stage plays as well as operatic and ballet productions. With the advent of cinema and television the term has widened to also include the choreography of filmed fighting sequences, as opposed to the earlier live performances on stage. It is closely related to the practice of stunts and is a common field of study for actors. Actors famous for their stage fighting skills frequently have backgrounds in dance or martial arts training.

B. H. Barry is an English fight director and choreographer in theater, film, television, opera and ballet. He has been awarded a Drama Desk and an Obie Award for Sustained and Consistent Excellence in Stage Combat. He also received a Lifetime Achievement Tony Theater Wing.

William Hobbs (29 January 1939 – 10 July 2018) was a choreographer of stage combat.

The British Academy of Dramatic Combat (BADC) is an organisation that provides training in stage combat and certifies Actor Combatants, Dramatic Combat Teachers and Examiners.

Cinematic fight choreography or staged fights in cinema include performances of archery, classical fencing, historical fencing, martial arts, close combat, and duels in general, as well as choreography of full-scale battles with hundreds of combatants.

Scarlet Blade Theatre was a theatre company based in London, England, specialising in acting, advanced stage combat, physical theatre and other performance skills including horse riding and martial arts.

Apache, or La Danse Apache, Bowery Waltz, Apache Turn, Apache Dance and Tough Dance is a highly dramatic dance associated in popular culture with Parisian street culture at the beginning of the 20th century. The name of the dance (pronounced ah-PAHSH, not uh-PATCH-ee, like the English pronunciation of the Native American tribe) is taken from the term for Parisian underworld of the time.

The British Academy Of Stage & Screen Combat (BASSC) is a British organisation for the tuition and development of stage combat for theatre, television and feature film.