MYP Stage Combat

MYP: Stage Combat
Key concept: Communication
Related concepts: Audience, Expression, Interpretation, Presentation.
Global context: Personal and cultural expression
Statement of inquiry: Combatants use safe and choreographed stage combat, communicating personal and cultural expression for the benefit of an audience.
Inquiry questions:
Factual: Why is SAFETY, eye contact and cuing important during Stage Combat?
Conceptual: What is stage combat? Why will actors engage in stage combat? How do you communicate as combatants on stage?
Conceptual: How do we mask the audience to create the illusion of contact in stage combat, reflecting  conflict in a real life situations?
Debatable:  How realistic is stage combat in different movies? How do they sound? body knaps or prerecorded sound effects?