Swordplay classes get right to the point
En garde! Touche! Ring of Steel’s sword-play class is making a name for itself in Tree Town.
Kids love to play with swords… and so too do adults looking for a good workout in Ann Arbor.
Excerpt:
About three years ago, Ann Arbor resident Heather MacFarland had an unsettling epiphany.
“I realized the last time I was having a good time was playing with my daughter, who at the time was 10,” MacFarland said. “I needed something that was fun, and went looking.”
What she found was The Ring of Steel, a theatrical combat and stunt troupe that teaches and performs a variety of styles of swordplay for stage, films, workshops, Renaissance fairs, Celtic festivals, camps and more.
“When you become an adult, you pay your bills and rent, but to have fun and be childlike and not childish, is huge,” MacFarland said. “A lot of people have that, but usually it’s sports. This is a sport and I look at it that way, but it’s also theater. Part of it is the camaraderie, part of it is learning a physical skill, part of it is performance and part of it is just fun.”
Read the rest of the story here.
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