Improv and stage combat

Our next Jam will be tackling Improv and the use of stage combat.
There are a lot of inherent difficulties in combining the two art forms. A totally improvised piece of stage combat is extremely dangerous. Something that is too rehearsed and choreographed loses the in the moment feel of good Improv.
This isn't a new idea. Fights were used routinely in Commedia shows hundreds of years ago. While safety standards were possibly more lax, they couldn't afford to injure their fellow performers and risk not being able to continue the show. The Commedia groups would rehearse their bits, or lazzi, and if a certain trigger was hit in the course of the scene the appropriate fight sequence would follow.
Today, professional wrestling uses physical cues such as taps or slaps on their partners body to let them know what move is coming next. Those cues trigger the appropriate sequence to perform the violence effectively while maintaining the illusion of a real, on the spot fight.
This is the type of Improv violence I am working to recreate. We will use our modern and safer techniques to create funny, dynamic, engaging, and seemingly spontaneous acts of violence onstage that fit in the context of whatever is developing onstage.
This will he extremely challenging, but it is by no means impossible. The next Jam will only be an introduction but the goal is to show that it can be done.
Greg