Academie Duello
Our Trips
Teach your drama program how to stage a safe and exciting sword fighting for your school
theatrical production.
Your students will learn the basics of theatrical swordplay with rapiers or longswords
including stance, movement, attacks, and defences. We’ll also teach the core “safeties” of
stage combat including managing distance, controlling targets, cueing and collaborative
choreography, as well as creating real and safe looking strikes, and reactions.
In a short session we can give you the basic tools of swordplay and in longer sessions we
can help you build choreography and get ready for bringing a lesson from the classroom to
the stage. Let us know your goals so we can shape the session to your group.
Learn to shoot like Robin Hood!
Immerse your students in an archery adventure, with a lesson in your choice between the
modern take-down recurve bow, the english longbow, or the asiatic composite bow!
Archery is a fantastic special program to offer as part of your educational classes as a single
session or an ongoing series. We combine modern archery instruction with historical bows
from Europe and Asia in a way that will excite your students to learn about different cultures
and physical skills related to patience, persistence, and strength.
*This lesson can only be offered at our downtown studio.
Come on a journey through time, and learn about the martial history of knights and duellists!
Far from armoured brutes wildly hacking and smashing their enemies, the knights and
duellists of the middle ages and renaissance were highly trained martial artists. Skilled not
only with swords, but also with daggers and spears, in and out of armour, on foot and on
horseback.
Presenters from Academie Duello will host your students, or travel to your school. Over the
course of an hour they will describe the martial arts of medieval and renaissance Italy, along
with live demonstrations, show and tell of medieval weapons and armour, and a Q&A period
at the end of the presentation.
En garde!
Immerse your students in the middle ages and renaissance, with a lesson in the arts of
knightly combat.
Swordplay is a great special program to offer as part of your physical education classes as a
single session or an ongoing series. We combine historical swordplay skills with modern
physical conditioning techniques in a way that will excite your kids to move. We have had
great results engaging students who usually have a hard time in phys.ed. and have found
that even push-ups are exciting when swordplay is the reward!
Get a hands-on tour of our medieval and renaissance museum of arms and armour, original
renaissance books, and heraldry!
Your students will get excited about the middle ages and renaissance in a new way by
handling reproduction and historical swords, trying on real steel and leather armour, leafing
through parchment and linen books, and learning all about the surrounding history from our
expert instructors.
We combine engaging lectures and demonstrations with opportunities for students to hold
and experience artifacts while learning their stories and real world use.
