By Rick Gilbert. We usually consider a fight choreographer's job to be staging the fights so that they are safe. Certainly safety is essential: actors should not be getting hurt in the exercise of their art. But a violence designer is far more than a mere "safety foreman." Like any other artist working in the theater, the violence designer's primary role is doing interpretive work: making choices that help tell the s…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 11:56AM on April 25, 2014