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Safety Basics

-- Make sure your scene partner is comfortable with the contact involved

-- Just because you borrowed your friend's car before doesn't mean you get to use it whenever you want...

-- Ask about any medical conditions or restrictions

CONSENT

Consent
Costume

--Have you removed all jewelry?

-- Can you perform the choreography freely?

-- Can you see?

-- How does the weight affect you?

-- Are the shoes non-skid? Heeled?

COSTUME

Call

-- "Call" is when an actor needs to show up

--"Fight call" means those actors involved in a fight have a seperate call time

-- Specifically for running choreographed violence

-- ALWAYS happens before a show 

FIGHT

CALL

-- Safe word

-- If someone calls "hold," you STOP!

-- Particularly important with armed combat - freeze and DO NOT MOVE.

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CALLING

"HOLD"

Hold
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