Do you know how to do a macaco? How are your rapier skills? Are you proficient in unarmed combat? Have you passed the test that allows you to indicate on your résumé that you're an "actor-combatant?" ...
The Visual and Performing Arts Department at Rockland Community College (RCC) recently hosted its Fall 2025 Skills Proficiency Tests (SPTs) in Theatrical Stage Combat, in the Cultural Arts Theatre.
The swords are slicing, kicks connecting, and punches flying. Stage combat, be it realistic and gritty or flat-out outlandish, is on display everywhere. But fear not, brave (or quaking) soul. Even if ...