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stage combat

noun

The art of arranging, designing or performing sequences of simulated fighting, especially in theatrical productions.

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We watched and rewatched grainy news footage, and rehearsed rudimentary stage combat.

Classes in improvisation and stage combat, lessons in lighting -- Mr. Braff, a self-professed "film geek," reveled in it all.

The boxing bouts are not realistic demonstrations of stage combat, but choreographed sequences in which each man fights alone.

The actors attend workshops where they learn stage combat, improvisation and matters pertaining to the Elizabethan world.

These two orphans of the revolution thus become brothers in Yu's opera troupe, rigorously training themselves in the semimartial art of stage combat.

Along with classical ballet, point, partnering, variations and repertory, students study mime, drama, character, period dance, anatomy, stage combat and music.

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But there is also diversion in these pages, with gruesome segments on things like staged combat between captured grizzlies and wild bulls.

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, eg savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.

American military strategists have devised contingency plans for staging combat operations in Iraq without Saudi support, but no one pretends that it would not be easier to have cooperation.

Specialist Jeremy N. Morlock, one of five soldiers from an Army Stryker brigade based here who are accused of staging combat situations to kill three civilians in Afghanistan last year, told the military judge presiding over the case, Lt. Col. Kwasi L. Hawks, that the deaths were neither justified nor accidental.

It has a controversial record of handling mental health issues, high rates of suicide, domestic violence and homicides committed by its soldiers, the most notorious of which were carried out by a rogue unit known as the "kill team" that staged combat situations to murder three Afghan civilians in 2010.

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