Fight Jam April 2012: Mixed Weapon Mass Battle

By Gabe | Published: April 14, 2012

Mixed Weapon Mass Battle: Roll for Initiative!…Roll for Initiative!

Saturday April 28th, 2pM-4PM

Join us for our third Jam at the Second City Training Center in Chicago! We’re bringing a veritable cornucopia of assorted weaponry (feel free to bring your own cool thing you’ve always wanted to try out) and will look at how to create—and be in—a mass battle scene.

Date: Saturday, March 28th
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location:
Second City Training Center
1608 N. Wells, Room 301

Word is spreading fast on this one, so let us know you’re coming by contacting us or
replying at our facebook event. We hope to see you there!

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Fight Jam March 2012: Fightin’ on the Edge

By Gabe | Published: March 14, 2012

…of a knife
with Greg Poljacik

Saturday March 31st, 11AM-1PM

Join us for our second Jam at the Second City Training Center in Chicago. Last time we had a fantastic turnout of folks coming to experiment with Sword-Versus-Knife, and we’re excited to see what happens this time as we focus in on the intimate violence of Knife fighting. We’ll explore disarms, stabs, wounds, and takedowns. We hope to see you soon!

Date: Saturday, March 31st
Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Location:
Second City Training Center
1608 N. Wells, Room 301

Let us know you’re coming by contacting us or
replying at our facebook event.

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Fight Jam Feb 2012: Bring a Knife to a Sword fight!

By Gabe | Published: February 17, 2012

Imagine: A duel-happy gentleman (or lady) corners you in a dark alley and shoves a smallsword in your face. You check your hip. Curses! You’ve only got a knife! What do you do (besides cry uncontrollably)? How can you turn this to your advantage? How can he (or she) take the advantage back? Does anybody really win? We will play with choreography exploring this odd pairing and see what the possibilities are. In true Jam fashion, all skill levels and ideas are welcome: if you’ve never fought with a sword or a knife before, you may have a valuable new way of looking at things.

This week also marks our debut at the Second City Training Center! We’re thrilled and grateful to have the opportunity to work in such a great space in the heart of the theatre community. We hope to see you there!

Date: Saturday, Feb 25
Time: 2:00 PM — 4:00 PM
Location:
Second City Training Center
1608 N. Wells St, Room 301
Chicago, IL

Let us know you’re coming by contacting us or at our facebook event

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Free Skate at Forteza!

By Gabe | Published: February 16, 2012

Forteza: Fitness, Physical Culture, and Martial Arts
Thursdays 8-10PM
4435 N. Ravenswood Ave

We’ve acquired an amazing opportunity at the new Forteza Fitness space to gather like-minded performers dedicated to developing their stage combat skills. (So let the gathering begin.) It begins tonight! We are, shall we say, super excited about it. We’ll run it as a fairly freeform workout, with a group warmup, some group activities, and a chance to break off and work on whatever tickles your fancy. The space includes weights, punching bags, and an assortment of weaponry to play with.

As always, contact us or drop us a comment/message on facebook if you have questions or want more details. Hope to see you there!

Thursdays, starting February 16
Time: 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Location: Forteza Fitness
4435 N. Ravenswood Ave
Chicago, IL

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Weekly Free Skate is… NOT back.

By admin | Published: January 16, 2012

POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Due to sudden loss of space, we had to cancel our workout tonight. Watch this space for updates for future dates and new locations!

Zev Steinberg and Sara Hodges at Winter Wonderland Workshop 2011

Fight Jam is known for our free monthly classes, but we’re also a community of fighters that loves to get together with other fighters to work out, hone our skills, and play with new ideas. To that end and thanks to our friends at Asylum Stunts, this Thursday we’re relaunching our weekly unstructured stage combat jam sessions. Even better—the first time is free!

We’ll keep it simple this week and do a weapon-less session focusing on falls, rolls, and unarmed fighting. Skyline is a fantastic gym with plenty of floor space, mats, and gymnastics equipment, so come on out and take advantage of it!

Date: NOT TONIGHT
Time: THE FUTURE
Location: SOMEWHERE

Remember, Fight Jam is for everyone (18+) regardless of skill level. We hope to see you there!

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Ting-tang-panache!

By admin | Published: January 7, 2012

Basil Rathbone swashbucklingFight Jam is starting off the new year right with some oooooh shiiiny Hollywood-style swashbuckling swordplay. Come join us, fresh(ish) off the Winter Wonderland Workshop, as we play with the swish, shine, and slash we all know and love. We’ll bring the swords, you bring the pizzaz.

Date: Saturday, 28 January 2012
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 2nd Floor
1509 Ridge Ave, Evanston, IL

Use the entrance two to the right of the main doors, inset from the sidewalk, and go upstairs. There will be signs.

Remember, Fight Jam is for everyone (18+) regardless of skill level. We hope to see you there!

Join our mailing list so you’ll never miss a Jam.

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Fight Jam at Winter Wonderland!

By admin | Published: January 7, 2012

This weekend, most of us at Fight Jam can be found at the Winter Wonderland Workshop—the largest regional stage combat workshop in the country, presented by our friends at M.A.C.E.—helping in various capacities to make it happen. If you’re reading this because you met us there and/or ate our cookies, welcome! If not, you really missed out on the cookies.

We’ll be back for our January Jam on the last Saturday of the month (the 28th at 2pm) at a location TBD. If you haven’t already, sign up for our mailing list so you won’t forget!

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Stunt Jam – 12/20/11

By Gabe | Published: December 14, 2011

Fight Jam Chicago & Asylum StuntsThis month, instead of hosting our own class we’ll be partnering with Asylum Stunts at their weekly workout! Asylum is a group of film stunt performers, coordinators, and teachers that provides specialized training for actors as well as twice-weekly general training sessions at Skyline Gym. Their sessions cost $20 to attend, but the first one is free! Several of us at Fight Jam have gotten to work (and play!) with them and we think they’re pretty damn awesome.

So come out and learn to fight, fall, and roll like a film performer!

Note the day and location change—this is next Tuesday, not Monday.

Date: Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Time: 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Location: Skyline Gymnastics
4121 N. Ravenswood Ave
Chicago, IL 60618

We hope to see you there!

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Fight Night is Tonight! (12/8/11)

By Gabe | Published: December 8, 2011

Fight Night presented by Nothing Special Productions

12/08/11 at The Den Theatre

In this corner, five Chicago theatre groups ready to fight. And in the other corner, the world.

Fight Jam Scrappers Zev and Gabriel, along with Sandra Howard, are super excited to be participating in a one-night-only stage combat extravaganza tonight (Thursday, December 8th) presented by Nothing Special Productions: Fight Night! The show also includes the awesome:

Drinks will be available as audiences join in the mayhem to win raffles and prizes.

So come get yer fight on! Or, you know, watch a bunch of other people get their fight on. See you there!

Thursday December 8th
10:00 PM (doors open at 9)
The Den Theater
1333 North Milwaukee
Tickets: $12 at the door

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Fight Jam at Fight Night!

By Gabe | Published: November 17, 2011

Fight Night presented by Nothing Special Productions

12/08/11 at The Den Theatre

Fight Jam Chicago is participating in Fight Night on December 8th, and we’re very excited to be a part of the show. Tickets are on sale now for $10 online ($12 at the door). From the show’s facebook page:

DUELING DRAMATISTS DUKE IT OUT

NOTHING SPECIAL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS FIGHT NIGHT

11/08/2011 CHICAGO – In this corner, five Chicago theatre groups ready to fight. And in the other corner, the world.

Nothing Special Productions, in collaboration with creative powerhouses The House Theater of Chicago, The Inconvenience, Babes With Blades, and Fight Jam, is winding up for one mean right hook with FIGHT NIGHT. For one-night-only, December 8, 2011, these five groups will present a series of scenes at The Den Theatre in Wicker Park featuring mind-blowing combat of all kinds, presented in wrestling match style by hosts Brian Rohde of Nothing Special Productions and Matt Castellvi of nefarious sketch comedy team Octavarius. Drinks will be available as audiences join in the mayhem to win raffles and prizes. Did we mention drinks will be available?

ONE NIGHT ONLY!

For more information, visit Nothing Special Productions website at
www.nothingspecialproductions.com.

We hope to see you there!

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