News / Events

Dec

22

2011

Class Registration opens at 6p.m. CST

The Winter Wonderland Workshop class sign-up system opened at 6p.m. CST, December 22, 2011. You can log in to your MACE account to see your details from the home page, and at 6p.m. a link will appear on the home page, on your account page, and on the MACE Facebook page to begin registering for classes.

Nov

10

2011

Registration Now OPEN!

After an extensive overhaul, the registration system for the 2012 Winter Wonderland Workshop and the related intensives is now available for students. Collect your information and register now!

Oct

31

2011

2012 Student Registration

Staff Applications are now closed and we are beginning to select classes for the upcoming 2012 Winter Wonderland Workshop!

In order to create a better experience, we are still working on the online Student Registration form. We hope to open the form very soon. Check here frequently for more news!

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Winter Wonder Who?

The Winter Wonderland Workshop is the largest regional stage combat workshop in the United States.

Sanctioned by the Society of American Fight Directors and the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat, the Winter Wonderland Workshop brings students from all over the world to learn from some of the best in the business.

Staff applications for 2013 are not yet open.

Workshop registration for 2013 is not yet open.

OPEN Classes

  • Back falls for all
  • Breath or Die
  • Lightsaber 101
  • Fighting For Film
  • Fancy Footwork
  • It Ain't Heavy, It's My Broadsword
  • Takedowns and Headlocks!
  • Lightsaber to music
  • Martial Arts Based Safe Combat
  • Unarmed Improv
  • Filipino Knife
  • Just For Kicks 2.0
  • Death and Killing
  • Actors Are Athletes
  • Interrupting Kn-hey!
  • Film Fighting 1
  • Medical Implications of The Hit
  • Lightsaber 101
  • Film Fighting Part 2
  • Footwork- The Foundation of Any Good Fight
  • Five Pillars of Ferocious Fighting
  • Falls and Rolls
  • Lightsaber to Music
  • Fighting Bound
  • Slaps and Haymakers
  • Footwork Will Save Your Life!
  • Film Fighting Part 1
  • Create A Fight
  • High Falls from Low Places
  • Film Fighting Part 2
  • Thinking From...
  • Pool Noodle Battles
  • Unarmed Improv

BASIC Classes

  • Quarterstaff for Beginners
  • Biomechanics of Finding Center
  • Sword and Shield
  • Smallsword
  • Groin Shots Are Funny
  • Takedowns
  • Quarterstaff
  • Small sword 101
  • How Slow Can You Go?
  • Brushing the Dust off Paddy Crean
  • Quarterstaff
  • Stick Fighting For Film
  • Broadsword
  • The Pointy End Goes Into The Other Person
  • Prep for Big Weapons For Small People
  • Broadrazor
  • Shakespeare's found logic
  • Knife
  • Quarterstaff
  • Reactor
  • Full Contact Improv
  • Big Weapons For Small People port d'armes
  • Intro to Knife
  • Falling and Rolling
  • Sword And Shield
  • Rapier and Dagger
  • Smallsword
  • Biomechanics of Finding Center
  • Knife Disarms
  • Smallsword
  • Quarterstaff
  • When All Else Fails
  • Twin Daggers
  • Single Sword
  • Filipino Knife
  • Breath or Die Again
  • Nasty Knife
  • Big Weapons for Small People - Reprised

INTERMEDIATE Classes

  • Abandon and Flow
  • Fight Like A Hobbit
  • I Told you to let the *&%# Go!
  • All In The Timing
  • Scimitar
  • Broadsword
  • Did You Say Tai Chi Speed?
  • Viking Sword and Shield
  • Rope vs. Rapier
  • Paddy Crean SiS
  • Fighting With A Smile
  • Abandon and Flow
  • Scimitar
  • Smallsword
  • Broadsword
  • Rope vs. Rapier
  • Paddy Crean Single Sword
  • SS and Cloak
  • Close Quarters Brutality, Chicago Style
  • Aggressive Smallsword
  • Case of Rapiers
  • Lightsaber Story vs. Flair
  • Avoid With Style
  • Shillelaghs
  • Vulgar Art vs. True Art
  • Broadsword
  • Smallsword and Cloak
  • Flash, Fun, and Fierce
  • How Shakespeare Fought

ADVANCED Classes

  • Yoga R&D
  • Fighting For Shakespeare
  • Multi Strikes, Double Timing, Blind Throws
  • Scuola Gladiatori
  • Advanced Throws and Takedowns
  • QS vs. Double Sticks
  • Rapier and Dagger
  • Stupid Sword Tricks 16
  • Smallsword a la Suddeth
  • Knife
  • Multi-strikes, Double Timing and Blind Throws
  • Multi strikes and Double Timing
  • Advanced Sword & Shield: Compound Combination Work
  • Yoga R&D

LECTURES, PANELS and DISCUSSIONS

  • Movement Professional
  • Chicks Unite!!! Women of the SAFD
  • Sword Maintenance