Film Fighting (Level I) teaches various styles of martial arts and how to maintain safety in the midst of full-contact action. As actors learn to integrate acting and martial arts skills and examine their work from different camera angles, they discover how to transcend choreography, tell the story physically and express themselves through dynamic action.

Film Fighting (Level II) challenges the actor to grow mentally, physically and spiritually through intensive training in self-defense and advanced fighting techniques; jumping, acrobatic movements and weapons are incorporated into the stunt choreography. The lessons stress fundamental combat skills while preparing actors for filming a complete fight sequence.

The move to the new Strasberg.com has taken a lot of work, but I am happy to have a new and improved on-line home for our work. I appreciate the feedback that I have gotten from the actors out there who have read this blog and checked out the new site.

I would like to share a wonderful comment that was posted by a reader and former student.

David,

I greatly admire this new energy in raising the profile of your father’s work. The combination of what he was intelligent enough to preserve and insightful enough to expand has, I think, created a breadth to our understanding of acting that too few seem capable of dealing with all at once.

Often I come across a practitioner who, in his ignorance, has dismissed what he feels Lee was about. Yet he will then go on to complain of an acting problem that is absolutely contained within what Lee would practice!

You must keep it up. There are lessons in his oft-misunderstood practice that are so valuable and universal. Lee himself would ...