Intimacy Direction: An Intro for Directors, Actors & SM

An introduction to the discipline of Intimacy Direction with Claire Warden, an international leader of the movement. Learn about consensual based working and consent practices, creating and containing chemistry, and open and empowering communication. 

Actors will learn to understand, communicate and advocate for their and their scene partners respect and safety and how to create authentic and specific stories of intimacy. Directors will learn how to facilitate an equitable, safe and creative environment for intimacy work and effective communication of their vision and will explore the creative possibilities of the specificity of physical storytelling. 

Stage managers will learn how to hold and maintain an equitable, safe and creative environment for intimacy work, notation of intimacy choreography and protocols and procedures for intimacy work. 

Directors/Devisers, get the chance to direct and practice methods towards achieving theatrical intimacy in this lab. You will have the opportunity to direct or watch a director work on scenes that explore platonic to romantic expression, heterosexual to homosexual expression, and more. 

Performing Artist, get the chance to explore consensual intimate movement of platonic to romantic expression, heterosexual to homosexual. Stage Managers, learn how to access when a room has become unsafe when working intimacy. Learn how to contribute and keep the space safe and practical. 

We are located on the ground floor, near the Church St end of the building. If you cannot find us, please ask at the Security Desk.