Resources ✧ Reflections ✧
Resources ✧ Reflections ✧
Consent-forward resources for performers and reflections on it all. Here is a quick guide to calling-in from the Consent Crew, and if you need immediate mental health support here is a list of 24/7 crisis lines. To book a workshop for your community reach out 🤝
Equity in the Performing Arts Classroom
Supportive resources for educators and students interested in creating consent-forward and trauma-informed creative collaboration spaces.
What are Power Dynamics Anyways?
How might specific power dynamics be affecting your creative process?
How to not look away from intersectional equity
How not to look away from difficult conversations around equity in the arts.
ACTRA, SAG/AFTRA and Equity Performers
Sexual harassment and intimidation reporting resources as well as union best practices when engaging in scenes of intimacy, nudity, sex, or sexual violence.
Intimacy Choreography: Some Psychological Considerations
Some psychological reasons it is important for an intimacy director or coordinator to be on set when working with vulnerable material.
In praise of Cookie Harrist’s The Liberated Dancer
Highlights from research, snapshots of the zine, and resources including an illustration of the stages of consent culture for dance communities.
Resources for Dancers
Check out some routes for reporting and useful articles around consent guidelines and considerations specific to dancers.
Staging Sex: The 3 Big Ideas
Get a sense of the major concepts and basic principles of intimacy choreography to put into practise in your own community.
What is intimacy choreography?
Intimacy work is relatively new to the worlds of art and entertainment, so if you’ve never heard of it, here’s where to start!