Stage combat demonstration set for Thursday

Professional Stage Combat Choreographer Paul Steger will hold a public demonstration on Thursday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Reynolds Performance Hall.

UCA Theatre students will join Steger during the performance to demonstrate techniques they acquired during a four-day workshop this week. Audiences will be able to preview some of the fight sequences especially choreographed for the upcoming UCA Theatre production of ?Hamlet?.

Admission to the demonstration is free to everyone. Tickets are not required and seeting is not reserved. Doors will open at 7 p.m.

Steger is a certified teacher of stage combat and is a member of the Society of American Fight Directors.

Steger holds an MFA in directing from Western Illinois University and is currently a visiting associate professor of theatre at Florida State University in Tallahassee. His numerous credits include guest artist and fight choreographer for the North Carolina School of the Arts, the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Oklahoma.

His professional television experience includes appearances in ?Power Rangers,? ?Family Law,? ?The Practice,? ?Party of Five? and ?Ally McBeal.? He has been the fight director/choreographer on numerous stage productions including ?Romeo and Juliet,? ?Macbeth,? ?Richard III,? ?True West,? ?Tartuffe,? ?Julius Caesar,? ?Othello? and ?A Streetcar Named Desire.?

Steger?s demonstration is part of UCA Artists in Residence Program and is sponsored by UCA Theatre and the College of Fine Arts and Communication.