Training experiences in stage combat: A source of learning beyond the physical dimension
This qualitative interpretative case study allows a better understanding of learning experiences of scenic combat in a professional actor training context. Based on the concept of experience and the activity theory, this article discusses how these learning experiences go beyond movement and lead students to confront their personal limits, to take responsibility for their own path of learning, to increase their self-confidence and to realize how these experiences positively affect their whole student journey and their professionalization. Links can also be established with other teaching contexts for combative activities (scenic or not), which are, for example, authorized by the curriculum in Quebec.