Gallery

Another day in the fencing room.

A balanced on guard position ready for anything.

A rehearsal for a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Missouri State University. The fencing scene was staged by Maestro Evangelista.

Two fencers jockey for an advantage under the watchful eye of the director.

Evangelista cats, Sweetie and Bud, get ready to take on fencing.

A successful stop thrust.

A lesson with Maestro Evangelista.
A ghostly fencing bout.

Women fencers mixing it up at an Evangelista tournament, as friends and family look on.

Maestro with one of his young students, Will Reynolds.

Nick Evangelista in his early days at the Faulkner School of Fencing (1973).

An attack dessous.

Maestro Evangelista engages in a brutal corps-a-corps with one of his youngest students.

Epee bouting in a St. Louis park.

Maestro Evangelista teaching at Missouri State University.

Maestro Evangelista directs a bout in 2011.

Evangelista cat, Sweetie, attempts to negotiate foil fencing.

Women’s individual foil fencing event at Missouri State University, 2009.

The challenge of teaching very young students. Especially challenging for the knees.

Maestro Evangelista (1989).

A perfect lunge.

A champion Falcon fencing team in the early 1970s. Nick Evangelista is on the far right.

A lesson with Maestro Ralph Faulkner.

Maestro Evangelista with his student teacher Adam Bedinghaus.

A traditional bout of fencing at Falcon Studios in 1982.

Maestro Evangelista demonstrating a fencing action to a student.

An excellent touch during one of Maestro Evangelista’s fencing tournaments.

Maestro Evangelista (2001).
An epee lesson.

A moment from ABC TV’s 1972 Summer Olympics promotional commercial, which won a Clio Award in 1973. The fencing segment was performed by Maestro Ralph Faulkner and Nick Evangelista.

The Evangelista fencing room decked out for Christmas 2021.

Bud, twenty pounds of muscle, is the Porthos of the Evangelista School.

Maestro Evangelista (2021),

Kid fencing.

Fencing in the Ozarks, Peace Valley, Missouri, 1999.

A student demonstrates relaxed poise during a fencing bout.

The Maestro works with a student at Tower-Grove Park in St. Louis. The student, Bill Leckie, is the author of German Fencing: The Problem of Meaning.

A foil bout with the Maestro.



































