Intro to ID Section 1
What you will Learn
In this course, you can access all lectures that in Section 1 of the ID track
- Consent and Power
- Elements of the Profession
- Intro to ID
- Consent and Closure
"This workshop was filled with so many valuable tools I know I will use again and again throughout my career."
- IPEC Student
Intimacy Directors create spaces that can set the direction of the culture from first read to curtain call.
While we see Intimacy Coordinators in many more headlines, Intimacy Directors are being requested more and more in our live and theatrical spaces. The skill of an Intimacy Director is not only that of collaboration, story telling, and advocacy, it's the daring skill to hold space & create choreography that is impacts the audience as well as is profoundly repeatable for the actors.
Looking for accreditation? Sign up for your Welcome Mentorship for guidance of what courses you need.
Here for à la carte training? Consider signing up for a Lab to practice scenarios for stage in a small group to stretch your skills.
100's of Shows / Thousands of Hours in Dance, Opera, Narrative Theatre, & Devised Art
Our educators have worked at theatres like The Pasadena Playhouse, Nashville Opera and Symphony, The Garden Theatre, The Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Palm Beach Dramaworks, 7 Stages Theatre, The Academy Theatre, Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre, Arts Express, Pima Community College, and more.
Daring Creativity.
Safer Spaces.
Communicative Processes.
"As an Intimacy Director, my greatest intention is to be an advocate and collaborator who supports the performers’ mental, physical, and emotional health. My hope is to build safer, comfortable, consensual, and communicative rehearsal rooms for performers and performers in training. I am a firm believer that consent, boundaries, and communication should be deeply ingrained within the performance and rehearsal space, as we are all human." - Matt Denney
Theatre Spaces that create new molds rather than fall into old habits
“It is not just a matter of physically directing movement such as the placement of a hand or the length of a kiss. It is a matter of providing actors the space to honor their own limitations and boundaries when the work requires them to be physically and/or emotionally vulnerable. It gives authority of an actor’s own body and mind back to them. They are a person first, not just a cog in a larger wheel of commercial theater productivity. ”
— Vida Manalang, Creative Generation Blog
Reflection on a workshop with Nicole Perry
Staged Intimacy for live work is holding space for actors, directors, and crew. To be able to visit daring work time and time again in the healthiest manner possible.
“I think a hugely harmful misconception people have around art is that suffering creates better art. ”
— Nicole Perry in an interview with CanvasRebel