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Burning Mountain

Tempus - Distancia - Proportio

Dramatic Violence for Stage and Screen: A performance art that uses movement and acting to depict the illusion of violence in a dramatic context.
We are performers, teachers and directors.
We work on other peoples' projects, as well as producing and developing our own shows. Furthermore, our company is engaged in continuous research, development and creative experimentation to foster the growth of the Art Form and its Artists.

Our Style is guided by:
1 - Storytelling and acting: character choices, reacting moment-to-moment, fully engaged in your scene partner.
2 - Martial Viability based on martial arts principles (heavily influenced by European and Western Martial Arts ie. swordplay from when swords were used for self-defense or in battle, see links below).

Target audience: professional performers, directors, managers and administrators in theatre and film around the world.

"Burning Mountain" comes from the Grant Clan Badge which features a mountain on fire: "the so-called 'Rock of Alarm', the gathering place for the Clan when the signal fires were lit on its summit to rally the Clan to battle". We have chosen this symbol for a few reasons. First is that we are of the Grant Clan. Also, the fire can represent the fires of creativity, and our burning passion for what we do. Finally, one of our foundation practices is to be a gathering place for artists interested in this field. We endeavour to eschew the (somewhat inevitable) politics, and instead focus on the practice and development of the artform, and the Joy we get from doing it!

Stage Combat (also called Dramatic Violence, Stage Fight, Dramatic Movement and numerous others). Any violence you see on stage or scree -- from fisticuffs to sword fights to simpler things like falling -- are choreographed so that the performers can live to see another day, and can do these things without injury. On top of that, the "fighting" needs to fit the play or the rest of the movie, and accurately express the characters, and tell a story. People who train in this art form train both movement skills and acting skills. Intense partner work is also required (a bit like ballroom dance, that way).

A short film we recently completed:
https://vimeo.com/45563294

The show we are workshopping and producing:
https://www.facebook.com/demandingsatisfaction

CV websites:
http://www.SiobhanRichardson.com
http://www.video.siobhanrichardson.com/
http://www.MattRichardson.ca/

facebook pages for photos etc:
https://www.facebook.com/BurningMountainSummit
https://www.facebook.com/fighteractress
https://www.facebook.com/matt.richardson.9889