Biography
Jonathan is the BOVTS resident tutor of Stage Combat, Period Movement & Historical Dance and has performed in Repertory Theatres as an actor, choreographer, fight-director: in West End Musicals, Opera and Ballet companies, Radio, TV and Film.
Jonathan trained at London University, Goldsmith College; The Guildford School of Dance and Drama; The Place; The Dance Centre, Covent Garden and Pineapple Dance Centre. He has studied nine martial arts disciplines and trained in Japan at the “Tate Dojo So Honbu” with Hayashi Kunshiro’s combat team, Peking Opera and at Cardiff Arts Laboratory Theatre. He studied mime at the Ladislav Fialka, Theatre on the Balustrade, Prague and stage combat under Henry Marshall (RADA) and with the Society of British Fight Directors and the Society of American Fight Directors. He has taught Stage Combat in Japan, America, Canada, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Estonia and is a Master Teacher for The International Order of the Sword & the Pen workshops in Canada.
Jonathan is the author of Stage Fighting – a Practical Guide. Published by Crowood Press Ltd. 2008. IBSN: 978-1-84797-046-6. Available on Amazon.co.uk
