Intimacy Direction: An Introduction for Directors, Actors, and SMs
Claire Warden, Intimacy Director and part of the teaching team of Intimacy Directors International, brings IDI's training, practices and methodology in the discipline of Intimacy Direction.
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.
General Admission $100.00 | Member/SDC/AEA $80.00 | Directors Project Alumni $60.00
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Claire Warden, Intimacy Director and part of the teaching team of Intimacy Directors International, brings IDI's training, practices and methodology in the discipline of Intimacy Direction.
Specifically for directors, this advanced workshop delves deeper into the considerations of a director’s role when creating stories of intimacy. Explore power dynamics and the unique and complex factors at work when working with actors and stage management teams. Learn about the specific of physical story telling, the multiple considerations of working with actors in scenes of nudity and simulated sex and the new protocols around scenes of nudity and intimacy that are becoming standardized across the industry. Explore your own relationship to creating stories of intimacy, sex and sexual violence and learn self care methods for continued health and wellness within your work. Participation in the previous introductory workshop held in October 2018 or February 24th 2019 is required for participation I this workshop.
If you are an actor interested in this class please contact Nilan Johnson at education@dramaleague.org
If you are a stage manager interested in this class please contact Nilan Johnson at education@dramaleague.org
General Admission $100.00 | Member/SDC/AEA $80.00 | Directors Project Alumni $60.00