Intimacy
Direction
Intimacy Choreographers are responsible for the consensual crafting and staging of stories of sex, race, disability, religion, or age with appropriate cultural context and competency. They consult on scenes with loaded, heightened, or charged content that draws on the actor’s identity.
- Ann James (with Intimacy Coordinator's of Color)
Psychopsychotic- Intimacy Direction by Jenna Benzinger - Brown University
My work as a collaborator in artistic spaces, advocating for protecting the artist's humanity/boundaries, has lead me to becoming a qualified Intimacy director. Melding my training as an intimacy professional and choreographer for live theater has been such an artistically fulfilling experience,
I receive my training through Theatrical Intimacy Education and Intimacy Coordinators of Color. I am also Mental Health First Aid Certified.
I have choreographed intimate scenes for multiple plays and musicals (see resume), ran boundary and consent workshops, and provided Intimacy Best Practices consults with college theater groups.
Does your production need and I.C.?
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Does the production required nudity or simulated sex of any kind?
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Does the production include hightened, sexually charged physicality or non-sexual moments of intimate moments? (Utilizing actors lived experiences of race, gender, sexuality, disability or culture)
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Is the director confident in handling intimate scenes appropriately and navigating the actors through physically and emotionally uncomfortable moments?
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Are there any existing power dynamics/pre-existing relationships within the company that may require and outside perspective?
