Maria VYAZOVA, champion of Russia in 2008, silver medalist of the 2008 World Art Fencing Championship in San Marino.

Do you think musketeers now live only in books, and pirates fight with sabers only in Pirates of the Caribbean? I assure you, the romance of the cloak and the sword is now inherent not only in naive dreamers. Perhaps as a child you played Zorro, the noble masked avenger? Or dreamed of defeating a dozen enemies alone? Or maybe you wanted to show off in front of a beautiful lady, casually releasing witticisms to your opponents, and win a duel? If you answered yes to at least one question, welcome to the world of art fencing.

"Duel in Venice". Photo by Georgy Shchukin.

"Tournament of Knights". Photo by Alexander Egorov.

Etude "Rescue of the Princess". Photo by Alexander Arifulin.

"Dream of a bullfighter". Photo by Alexander Egorov.

Partner A performs the action "with a step forward swing for a blow to the head." Partner B responds with the action “counterattack with downward evasion, left leg ahead."

"One against two". Photo by Alexander Egorov.

An example of the beginning of the etude "Duel".

A good swordsman can only be stopped by a bullet.
Charles Lecourt

History

The appearance in the 16th century of light, long-bladed weapons that could always be carried around aroused a strong temptation to use them in any case. The dueling craze claimed more lives than civil wars. The art of owning weapons has become not only a guarantee of survival, but also a way of life. The sword - patroness, intercessor, judge and seductress - resolved any conflicts.

The duel of fencers has always aroused great interest among the audience, completely absorbing their attention, which was often used by pickpockets. Here is how Théophile Gauthier describes a similar case in the novel "Captain Fracasse":

“There was a noise at the other end of the bridge, and the crowd rushed there. It turned out that there were rapiers fighting on rapiers ...

They shouted: "Beat, bey!" - and violently attacked each other. They fought two against two and seemed to blaze with indomitable hatred for each other, pushing back the swords of the seconds who tried to separate them.

In fact, this quarrel was intended to cause a crowd of people, so that it would be easier for pickpockets to operate in the crowd. And indeed, not one curious person intervened in the turmoil with a tightly stuffed wallet, but got out of the crush, having spent, without knowing it, all his money.

And the breters, who did not even think of quarreling, but, on the contrary, sang among themselves, hastened to reconcile, shook each other's hands with an emphatically noble gesture and announced that their honor was satisfied. This, however, did not require much effort - their honor was never distinguished by sensitivity.

Years passed, and gradually fencing lost its status as a vital skill. However, it has survived to this day as a sport. True, it has noticeably lost in entertainment, having acquired bulky masks and a complete set of electronic equipment. The art of injecting and not receiving injections yourself has almost lost its charm, turning into an academic sport and obscure to the uninitiated.

Now all over the world there is a decline in interest in sports fencing. Its conditionality is becoming more and more intensified, the rules are becoming more complicated. A casual viewer simply does not understand the meaning and logic of the fights. Spectacular sword fighting faded into the background, having the opportunity to excite hearts only in adventure films.

But the love for a beautiful spectacle and romance gave rise to a new kind of fencing: not a rigid conditional martial art, but staged and spectacular. The new kind sports - artistic fencing allows in all its diversity to demonstrate the technique of owning different bladed weapons. These performances with swords are interesting to many, but especially to children and teenagers. After all, knightly and musketeer adventures, thank God, still excite youthful souls.

In 2008, art fencing in Russia officially became a new discipline. sports fencing. In Europe, for more than 15 years, international tournaments. Since the last open championship In Germany, Russian athletes returned with six gold medals in eight categories.

rules

- Why do you need a cord at the back?
- So that the coach can pull at the right time ...
Old fencing joke

The new fencing discipline is theater by sports rules. Any art fencing tournament takes place in the form of a series of costume fights. Each performance is a performance with its own story. The fencing combat is learned and rehearsed, like lines in a theatrical play. In art fencing, not opponents meet face to face, but partners.

The fundamental difference between art fencing and sports combat is the prohibition of improvisation for the participants in the fights. The heroes of a staged battle do not have the goal of defeating the enemy, as happens in a sports duel.

On the stage, all the movements of the weapons and the movements of the fighters are learned as gymnastic or dance combinations. Each participant knows the partner's future maneuvers. All tactics of the fight and tricks for its image are thought out by the coach and athletes, then embodied in pre-selected actions, and honed in training through repeated repetitions.

Here is an example of the beginning of the study "Duel".

However, how to determine the winner, when the athletes do not have the goal of inflicting an injection on the enemy?

As in other complex coordination sports, in art fencing, athletes entering the competition area are faced with the task of scoring the maximum possible number of points.

Athletes present to the arbitrators a program full of complex technical elements. At the end of the demonstration, the arbitrators give marks. Those with the maximum number of points win.

An ideal performance can be called in which high level fencing is combined with artistry. In addition, a fencing match on stage needs an interesting plot, costumes, light, sound, props and other “moments” that fill the performance and turn it into a complete performance.

But sport is sport, and any performance submitted to an art fencing tournament must meet a number of requirements in terms of time and the presence of mandatory elements. All of them are fixed in the rules of the competition. The judges evaluate two aspects: technical and artistic.

The artistic aspect is understandable to all viewers without exception, however, in order to correctly assess it, there are special criteria.

Artistry is understood as the ability of a particular actor-sportsman to embody the chosen image.

"Expressiveness" characterizes the construction of the composition of the battle, taking into account musical accents, the beauty and freedom of movement of the body.

The criterion of "compositional construction" evaluates the presence of the basics of directing in the stage battle. It is desirable that the speakers do not go deep into the stage, do not overlap each other, try not to work with their backs to the audience. The action should develop dynamically, continuously, without "failures" and unreasonable pauses.

Additional incentive points are awarded for the beauty and originality of the plots and costumes, props and scenery. In a word, the fight shown by the athletes should be beautiful and exciting.

The technical aspect is important not just because art fencing is a sport and for some reason it is “necessary”. Imagine that an actor who went on stage to portray a brether does not know how to swordsman at all. The viewer will instantly notice fake movements. Frankly, not a real fight will not cause empathy, and no amount of acting skills will save the athletes. After all, for the audience, everything is simple. Either they are bored of looking at the awkward movements of strange weapons, or they are inseparably watching the mortal duel, worrying about the heroes.

To assess the level of mastery of weapons, the judges of the technical jury have special fencing criteria.

There is basic technique, which determines the ability of each art swordsman to clearly and correctly execute an attack and take a defense.

The level of skill speaks of the variety of combat actions performed.

The coherence of the work reflects the skill of the athletes in their "counteraction" with weapons, as well as the general sophistication of the performance.

You can look at how representatives of different schools of art fencing work and form your own opinion about technique and artistry during all-Russian tournaments or festivals, which take place on average once every three months.

In order to “cheer for ours”, feel free to choose a studio whose fencers you want to believe. Teams showing something like academic ballet on stage or crawling like snails are completely different. The pinnacle of excellence is defined in the same way as it was five hundred years ago. The viewer should be breathtaking from the reality and tangible danger of the ongoing duel.

Fencing is mysticism for noble people.
Arturo Perez-Reverte

In art fencing, athletes have the opportunity to realize themselves in various disciplines.

The most common category can be called "Duet". The one-on-one duel is the most common form of fencing in both sports and theater. The duel has always been the best way clear up any misunderstandings.

The “Solo” category is a combination of fencing techniques: a “shadow boxing” performed by one person. Coaches find unusual and paradoxical ideas to make this category a real spectacle. This is a kind of "school". Note that similar categories exist in many types of martial arts, for example, "Kata" in karate tournaments.

In the "Exercise group" category, athletes must simultaneously and consistently perform combinations of fencing techniques. Without a single contact of blades, the speakers need to convey the atmosphere of the battle and the intention of the heroes to act together.

The meaning and benefits of training

Fencing... the only kind of exercise where the spirit is exercised.
Michel Montaigne

Although art fencing is not a martial art in the truest sense of the word, you should not think that this fencing discipline was invented for cute girls who love fitness and sequins on clothes. Remember: no modern martial art is complete without demonstration performances. In art fencing, demonstration is at the forefront. However, this sport is by no means easier than the others.

Before the rookie presents the audience for the first time a duel performed according to all the rules martial art, he is waiting for many months of training. Indeed, in order to withstand the frantic pace of five minutes of fencing, even an experienced fighter needs to have good physical fitness.

In addition to actually owning a weapon, a swordsman must learn to control the body and mind, and in addition, be able to interact with several opponents. By solving the conditional task of staged combat, a person is able to develop the skill of self-management in a stressful situation.

If we assume that a beginner magically combines diligence, will and method, and learns fencing as if his life depended on it ... In this case, a few months will be enough. You can improve indefinitely - there is no upper age limit for serious art fencing. Now athletes over 40 successfully compete at the Russian championships.

You may ask: “But what do you need swords for, gentlemen? After all, Shakespeare's plays are not new for a long time, and edged weapons are no longer an argument in disputes. And why, in fact, do we need this incomprehensible “art”, if there is normal fencing?”

Art swordsmen take the stage to present the audience with a believable and at the same time spectacular duel.

What for? Simply because they know: perhaps someday, having given the audience a fencing salute with a smile, the last of them will go backstage. There will be no truly noble people left in the world, the beauty of the great art of fencing will be forgotten. Then our world will become a damn boring place.

Materials on the competition rules and the current state of artistic fencing in Europe were kindly provided by Victoria Likhtarenko, teacher at the Espada art fencing studio, founder of art fencing as a sports discipline in Russia, permanent chief judge all-Russian competitions, "trendsetter" in the production of fencing fights in Russia.

Details for the curious

TECHNIQUES AND WEAPONS

Step back starts from behind standing foot, which is rearranged to the length of the foot, and the one in front restores the distance between them in a combat stance.

1st defense. Designed to repel blows to the left side and thigh. The forearm of the armed hand is parallel to the floor and directed slightly inward, and the tip of the blade forward and down, somewhat out of the inner sector. The palm of the armed hand is turned to the outside, and the blade and the handle of the guard are up and to the inner sector.

3rd defense. Designed to reflect blows on the right side. At the time of the defense, the forearm of the armed hand and the blade are somewhat removed from the outer sector from the vertical projection of the body. The forearm is parallel to the floor, and the point of the blade is directed up and forward. The palm of the armed hand is turned down, and the handle of the guard is directed to the outside and somewhat forward.

4th defense. It is performed in order to reflect the enemy's injection into the upper inner sector. The weapon moves up to the vertical projection of the torso with inside. When moving with a sword, the forearm of the armed hand rotates slightly at the elbow joint. The movement ends with a clear setting of the weapon and hand after reflecting the opponent's blade.

Batman is performed by an energetic push of the middle or weak part of the attacker's blade into the weak or middle part of the defender's blade in order to briefly move the tip beyond the projection of one's own body in order to try to inject into the open sector.

(Based on the book by D. Tyshler and A. Movshovich “The Art of stage fencing»).

In artistic fencing, ordinary sports swords, rapiers or sabers are used. All of them are necessarily equipped with protective tips.

A sports sword is a weapon with a trihedral blade, with a hilt that protects the hand. The length of the blade is from 90 to 110 cm, the weight of the sword is from 500 to 770 g. The sword has valleys along the blade - grooves for rigidity.

A sports saber, or espadron, is a stabbing and chopping weapon, it has a blade of a trapezoidal variable section, proportionally decreasing towards the top. Reciprocating blades can have longitudinal grooves on the side and upper wide sides. Length - no more than 105 cm, weight - up to 500 g.

A sports rapier is a stabbing weapon with a rectangular blade. The rapier weighs up to 500 g, reaches a length of 110 cm with a handle.

Studio manager - Ivanov Dmitry Alexandrovich- Actor, director and stuntman, senior lecturer at the stage plastics department of GITIS, CCM in art fencing, silver medalist of the German championship in stage fencing and champion of Russia in art fencing.

"stage fencing is a combination of plasticity and acting skills, choreographic accuracy and well-coordinated actions of partners in skillful possession of weapons. This is the disclosure of the psychology of the fight through the dramaturgy of the fight and the development of the image of the character in extreme conditions fight."

"It is one of the mandatory professional disciplines in the training of an actor, it also exists as an independent direction in tune with artistic or staged fencing.
It reminds, explains and educates in modern man such concepts as honor and dignity.

Stage fencing studio "VOLTE" was founded in 2009.

During its existence, the studio took part in the festivals "Silver Sword" (Moscow), "Romance of the Middle Ages" (Kolomna), "Staging Fencing Festival" (Moscow), "Fencer's Day" (St. Petersburg), "Street Theater Festival" (Yaroslavl), "Silver Ring of the Blade" (Moscow), "Arena" (Vidnoye).

And also in the Russian Art Fencing Championship, and in the German International Stage Fencing Championship.

Supervisor: Novikov Evgeny Vitalievich CMS in Artistic Fencing

You can additionally get acquainted with the coach and direction here: Club page incontact, Website of KAF "Challenge"

It has been 3 centuries since the time of Dumas and Sabatini, but the beauty and romance of this era are still alive. Remember these wonderful films close to many hearts - "Midshipmen", "Three Musketeers"? Artistic fencing is what makes them spectacular and authentic. It's not just swordsmanship, physical training, stage skills, but also a sincere love for the era of knights and beautiful ladies.
Artistic Fencing is what brings this era back to us.
Artistic fencing is a duel staged and brought to perfection, when the masters, getting used to their roles, according to the script and without editing cuts, play the duel as a whole, recreating pictures past days and contractions. The work goes without protection, with strict safety procedures, real fencing techniques and creative acting.
We challenge the virtual life, the unloved work, the obsession with financial gain
We want to get rid of the Internet and get a taste of real life, real fight, passion, feel the firmness of the hand and the endurance of the legs!
We want to create our own scripts and let our ideas come to life.
We want to positively influence the world around!
We want to grow up to full-fledged theatrical productions, where there is a text, acting skills, passion, honor, a sword, nobility!

Artistic fencing is-

• Physical education
• Fencing
• Combat acrobatics
• Stage combat without weapons
• Acting Basics
• Historical and cultural heritage
• Hobby
• Breathtaking theatrical costume show!

Feel like a brave musketeer, a desperate pirate or a cold-blooded aristocrat.

You can...

• Try on the role of your favorite heroes of books and movies - nobles and musketeers, midshipmen and pirates, heroes and adventurers.
• Feel the excitement of the fight, the drive of the battle.
• To join the national and world history
• Learn to control your body.
• Learn theatrical techniques and tricks of stage combat and combat acrobatics.
• Find like-minded people.

Prepare for battle, like in good movies!

We create conditions to meet the needs of people:

• in cultural, creative, intellectual and spiritual development,
• realize creative potential,
• we create conditions for the socialization of young people,
• we develop forms of leisure in accordance with modern world cultural development

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Artistic fencing through the eyes of world champions

In September Russian teams took part in the Artistic Fencing World Championships in San Marino for the first time. Representatives of 11 countries competed in the competition: Norway, Portugal, Czech Republic, Belgium, Canada, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, San Marino and Russia. On account of the Russian team 3 gold medals. Two of them were won by the Fekhtomania team (RGUFK-RAMT) from Moscow.

The correspondent of the official website of the International Charitable Foundation "For the Future of Fencing" Tatyana Kolchanova met with the members of this team, its coaches and artistic director to get answers to the questions: "What is artistic fencing - sport or art? What should be paid more attention to - fighting technique or entertainment, stage effects? Is dramaturgy necessary? What are the requirements for staging performances, as well as for their evaluation? What future awaits a new sports discipline, balancing at the intersection of art and sports? Who and how came to artistic fencing? Thanks to what, in a new sport for Russia, the debutants of the World Cup managed to defeat more experienced rivals?

We talked with the guys and their teachers in the Blue Room of the Central House of Actors for several hours. They have not yet cooled off after their triumph in San Marino. They spoke emotionally, enthusiastically and a lot. And it took me a lot of effort to summarize this material. Firstly, we managed to find out how the leaders of the team interpret the concept of artistic fencing.

Artistic fencing is a method of conducting a conditional, pre-rehearsed fight. Such a fight should have story line, it can be supplemented with musical arrangement, text, dancing, tricks, etc. Participants of the performance fencing in costumes and weapons, indicating the era to which the plot they have chosen for staging the performance belongs. Also, the rules do not allow improvisation. That is, the audience is presented with a mini-performance based on fencing.

And for the coaches, the most difficult thing was to get all the team members together. If for athletes there was a concept - a regimen, daily training, then for actors it was difficult to choose the time for training. They practiced with pleasure and a healthy dose of courage after the end of the performances, when their fellow athletes were already closing their eyes. Leonid Lavrovsky recalls: “I did not participate in the World Championship, but I was in the team at the Russian Championship. When an incentive appeared in the form of the official national championship, which was also a selection for the world championship, we changed our attitude to training. So, in March we trained once a week, but from the end of April we trained almost every day, and some still stayed to train at night. When there is an incentive, then there is time for training.”

The Fekhtomania team managed to get to the World Championship, where they competed in two categories - "XVI century - modernity" and "Out of time, free style". Both were the best. I asked the guys - did they believe in victory? Prokhor explained: “We have a comic motto: “Victory, vanity, world domination.” He was born at the training camp before the World Cup. We worked out an episode in which we all attack Gleb Kachan, and he should not immediately give up, but hold on to the last with a straight back. And then I said: "Imagine, the whole world is looking at you, and in your every movement you should read - victory, vanity, world domination." Everyone liked this slogan.

Lada Mosharova recalls the difficulty with which each number was born: “At first, the guys did not take serious fencing lessons, so it was in the work on the “Wax Museum”. This number was given to us with great difficulty. But now it is almost a masterpiece. It was the same with A Night in Spain. Lena Tikhomirova and I could not convince them to play this number. Then I said - we will do "In the yard of leftovers." Imagine - a huge yard of leftovers, a prince and a beggar. Then the guys shouted - no, let's better the Spanish theme. Then I set a condition - you will have a chaperone, and Lena said - Sonya Ivanova. They say, maybe invite an artist? And Lena answered - no, the artist will not cope. Here we need real lunges, real fencing techniques. And when they united on the idea, it was such a pleasure to work with them.

And Roman Stepensky told how sometimes it was difficult for the athletes to realize the acting idea: “I explained to Sonya how she should sit on my knees. Does not understand. Then I say, everything is simple - step forward, lunge, close. Understood".

In San Marino, the guys agreed not to go through all the episodes at speed during rehearsals. It was impossible to reveal all the cards ahead of time. But at some point it was necessary to check the movements against the music, and I had to perform the episode at full speed. “Giovanni, the organizer, runs up here and pulls the sword out of my hands,” Roman recalls. - I do not understand what is going on. And he says that this is a hoax, the sword is not metal, as it should be, but plastic. I give him a weapon, and he understands that it is real, metal. He could not believe that it was possible to perform movements with real weapons at such a speed. We laughed."

There was another episode that all team members are talking about. There was a day when everyone came to the rehearsal before the competition. On the open stage, where tourists walk, there were fights in every corner of the square, it was noisy, everyone was talking in different languages. It was the turn of the Russians to rehearse on stage. The guys began to pass the "Museum" without music. And suddenly they realized that they were doing it in complete silence. Everyone stopped and just looked at them. The opponents were amazed by the strength and confidence of the team. “We agreed among ourselves,” explains Prokhor, “that in training we do not show everything in full force, we pledged not to sell the meaning of our numbers to anyone. Each passed in short fragments. But even from several fragments of one number, the opponents and the judges realized that we represent a serious force. Our advantage was that we are all professionals - in acting or in sports. We all master the second type of activity. One is fencing, the other is acting. Our opponents are either underplayed actors or underfenced athletes. There are also just amateurs among them, people from the street who have united in clubs, hold festivals, and whole families are engaged in acting fencing with great enthusiasm.”

One more of our teams from Kolomna, representing the Svyatogor Center of Russian Military Culture at the championship, can also be called professionals, - says Roman. - They also won first place. These guys are engaged in the reconstruction of the Kolomna Kremlin. Every day they conduct excursions, perform with a demonstration program, hence such endurance. They perform in chain mail, they have real weapons that they themselves forge. Not everyone takes this as seriously as Kolomna athletes, for many the championship is just a mass holiday, hooliganism, which has nothing to do with history or fencing.”

The guys from the Fekhtomania team believe that not only skill, but also chance helped them win the championship. “Everyone performed under normal conditions,” says Prokhor, “and during ours, it started to rain. Only we managed to perform on the street stage, we got the first number by drawing of lots. According to the plot, the hero of Sergei Gerasenkov was the first to die on the stage, and the sky began to cry. After our performance, the competition was moved indoors. Before the championship continued, two hours passed. And all these two hours everyone was just talking about the performance of our team.”

According to Gleb Kachan, in artistic fencing there is not yet one important element- judging criteria. “Take, for example, figure skaters,” Gleb gives an example. - They evaluate the complexity of the elements - double axel, triple, etc. One skater can cleanly skate the program without using complex elements, while another can fall, but perform a four-turn jump. And until clear evaluation criteria appear, artistic fencing will not be perceived as a full-fledged sport. Uniform rules should be developed so that the competitors understand what is required of them and why they receive certain points.”
While our champions are practitioners. They follow the path of error and trial. Just like it was in ice dancing. IN figure skating When dancing was included in the official competition program, the question arose - what is it? How can this be assessed? In the end, we just agreed - what technical means can be used and what should not be. With their lives, their victories, our pioneers show that the path of development they follow has the right to life. They are trying to combine the professionalism of actors and athletes, and this has already led to victory at the World Championships. But then we observe hunger in theory. There is no discussion of the technical approach to this sport. So far, this is a territory in which no one is fighting. Some people benefit from this situation. Because as soon as the conditions and rules of the game and your language are determined, it will immediately become clear who is worth what. And yet, I believe that the time will come when artistic fencing will take its place in the history of our sport, and Russian masters will be able to achieve the same respect and honor as their colleagues from sports fencing.

Team members "Fechtomania":

Alexey Longin, a graduate of the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS). Currently he is an artist of the Moscow theater "Et Cetera" under the direction of A. Kalyagin. Busy in performances: "Shylock", "Newspaper "Russian Invalid" for July 18", "The Secret of Aunt Melkin". He acts a lot in films (“The Hunt for a Genius”, “Penal Battalion”, “Mothers and Daughters”, “Soldiers-11”, “Students-International”, “Thirty Years”, etc.) Performer of fights and stunts in films: “Servant of the Sovereigns ”, “Shadowboxing-2”, “New Earth”, etc. Director of the first numbers of the “Fechtomania” team.

Sergei Gerasenkov, a graduate of the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS). Currently, he is an artist of the Moscow Drama Theater named after M. Yermolova. He takes an active part in recording audio books (“Treasure Island”, “Black Arrow”, etc.). Conducts the author's course of stage movement and plasticity.

Gleb Kachan, a graduate of the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS). At present he is an artist of the Moscow theater "School of the modern play". He performs with a solo program in the bard club "Capercaillie's Nest" and at the evenings of the Theater Center "On Strastnoy" (under the Union of Theater Workers of the Russian Federation).

Roman Stepensky, a graduate of the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS). At present he is an artist of the Russian Academic Youth Theatre. Filmed in films (“Antikiller-2”, “The Last Weekend”, etc., performer of fights and stunts in the film “Servant of the Sovereigns”).

Prokhor Chekhovskoy, a graduate of the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS). At present he is an artist of the Russian Academic Youth Theatre. While still a student, he was introduced to the main role in the play "Little Lord Fauntleroy". Filmed in films (“The Return of Mukhtar”, “Airport”, “Satisfaction”, “Don't Be Born Beautiful”, “Kulagin and Partners”, “National Treasure”, etc., performer of fights and tricks in the film “Servant of the Sovereigns”).

Leonid Lavrovsky, a graduate of the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS). While still a student, he played several roles in the performances of the theater "At the Nikitsky Gates", at present he is an artist of the theater "School of the Modern Play". Student of the Literary Institute (Drama Department). Acting teacher at RATI (GITIS) and the Institute of Russian Theater. As a director, he collaborates with several entrepreneurial projects. He took part in the filming of the films "Moscow Saga", "Children of the Arbat", "Star of the Empire", etc.

Sofia Ivanova, graduate of the Russian State University physical culture and sports in the specialty " Combat sports". Master of sports in fencing. Four-time champion of Russia in fencing.

Artem Deev, student of the 5th year of the Russian State University of Physical Culture and Sports, majoring in Combat Sports. Master of sports in fencing. Winner of the championships of Moscow and Russia in fencing. As a stuntman, he took part in the filming of the film The Treasures of Mazarin (a sequel to The Three Musketeers).

Team coaches: master of sports in fencing - Elena Tikhomirova And Elena Yakovleva.

Artistic director Lada Mosharova.

Choreographer Mikhail Lavrovsky. People's Artist of the USSR, Laureate of the Lenin Prize, International Competition ballet dancers, Prizes to them. Vaslav Nijinsky of the Paris Academy of Dance, Moscow Prize in the field of culture and art.

It has been 3 centuries since the time of Dumas and Sabatini, but the beauty and romance of this era are still alive. Remember these wonderful films close to many hearts - "Midshipmen", "Three Musketeers"? Artistic fencing is what makes them spectacular and authentic. This is not only fencing skills, physical training, stage skills, but also a sincere love for the era of knights and beautiful ladies.

Artistic Fencing is what brings this era back to us.

Artistic fencing is a duel staged and brought to perfection, when the masters, getting used to their roles, according to the script and without editing cuts, play the duel as a whole, recreating pictures of past days and fights. The work goes without protection, with strict safety procedures, real fencing techniques and creative acting.

We challenge the virtual life, unloved work, obsession with financial gain.

We want to get rid of sitting on the Internet and feel the taste of real life, real combat, excitement, to feel the firmness of the hand and the endurance of the legs!

We want to create our own scripts and let our ideas come to life. We want to positively influence the world around! We want to grow up to full-fledged theatrical productions, where there is a text, acting skills, passion, honor, a sword, nobility!

Artistic fencing is:

• Physical education;
• Fencing;
• Combat acrobatics;
• Stage combat without weapons;
• Fundamentals of acting;
• Historical and cultural heritage;
• Hobby;
• Breathtaking theatrical costume show!

Feel like a brave musketeer, a desperate pirate or a cold-blooded aristocrat.

You can...

• Try on the role of your favorite heroes of books and movies - nobles and musketeers, midshipmen and pirates, heroes and adventurers.
• Feel the excitement of the fight, the drive of the battle.
• To join the national and world history
• Learn to control your body.
• Learn theatrical techniques and tricks of stage combat and combat acrobatics.
• Find like-minded people.

Prepare for battle, like in good movies!

We create conditions to meet the needs of people:

• in cultural, creative, intellectual and spiritual development;
• realize creative potential;
• we create conditions for the socialization of young people;
• we develop forms of leisure in accordance with modern world cultural development.

The fencing rally, which united the fighters of the Staritsa, Moscow, Balashikha and Rzhev branches of the Club, ended successfully. Filmed a movie, got invaluable experience!photo in VK

Results of fencing rallies "Summer 2017", 1st and 2nd shifts. Based on the results of the first session, which took place at the end of June 2017, 14 videos were created with their own scenarios. According to the results of the second July shift, there is still one video from the montage above. You can follow the release of the rest in the club's diary in the VK group: https://vk.com/kaf_vysov. We present to your attention several videos with the participation of our students and the head of the art fencing club "Challenge"

Learning fencing just like that is interesting in itself. But it is much more interesting if there is a scope for this art. Someone competes in championships, someone participates in festivals and reconstructions, someone arranges professional performances, and we, for the second summer in a row, find an outlet in the form of amateur filming.
First, we form script ideas, then we write them ourselves, make storyboards, assign props, cameramen, costume designers, assistant directors, make-up artists and, of course, rehearse fights in advance and sort out the psychological state of our characters.
This summer we had 2 shifts of 7 days each. Our plans included such scenarios as "Pretender", "Son of a blacksmith", "Sister's honor", "Do not give up", "Angard", "Letter", "Shadow" and "Ordinary miracle". Most of them are short (5-9 minutes), but there are also longer ones. For most scenarios, there were many who wanted to participate, so sometimes they filmed the same thing, but with different actors in the lead roles.
Started in January 2017 organizational training to fly. Since April, they began to rehearse fights and roles.
From June 26 to July 2, the 1st shift "shot back", and from July 22 to July 28 - the second. Filming took place in Bernovo, Staritsa (Museum of Local Lore, the house of the merchant Filippov, Praskov-Pyatnitskaya Church, the city itself) and in Chukavino (the historical ensemble and the Chukavino Country Complex).
Both children and parents participated in the filming, and with great enthusiasm: there was not a single person for whom there would be no role, or organizational, invaluable application for the film crew. For me, as a stage director, these were two wonderful shifts: my guys from Moscow, Balashikha, Staritsa and Rzhev became wonderful friends and worked well together. The volunteer crews have done a great job, and I think we've made a good step up from 2016's The Chase.