Consent and Power
What you will Learn
- Power Dynamics
- Power Dynamics and how they affect consent, boundaries, and expectations and identity.
- Powers Over v. Power With
- Defining Consent - Consent is a place to start. A CONTINUOUS PRACTICE - consent is not contractual - and transparency is key. (FRIES, ARISE, VIBE)
This video is for all tracks: IC, ID, and IE
Embodied consent! That was such a successful exercise in leaning in to the somatic experience and such a different approach than how consent typically talked about in these contexts
- IPEC Student
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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