Description
The Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook: Specialties for Stage and Screen explores the role of the intimacy choreographer with an in-depth look at specializations that exist within the profession.
With contributions by over 30 industry professionals, this book aims to bring awareness to a wide range of needs a project may have and how intimacy professionals use their cultural competency specialists in practice to create the most compelling storytelling. In Part One, the book addresses the scope of practice of an intimacy professional by discussing competency, finding your lens and tangential fields in the industry like fight directors, mental health coordinators and cultural competency specialists. Part Two covers specialties like working with minors, prosthetics, intimacy and disability, staging queer intimacy, working with fat actors, Black American intimacy, dance, working on scenes of trauma, sexual violence and non-consent, and BDSM. Between each chapter is a conversation with an actor, director or producer on their experiences working with an intimacy coordinator. In Part Three, the book looks at what it means to be qualified and intimacy professionals' hopes for the future of the industry.
The Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook is an invaluable resource for directors and producers looking to hire an intimacy professional, as well as in-depth study for those who are training or practicing in the field of intimacy for performance.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Scope of Practice 1. Competency 2. Finding Your Lens 3. Cultural Competency Specialist 4. Intimacy and Violence: A Conversation 5. Mental Health Coordinators Part 2: Specialities 6. International Considerations 7. Working with Minors 8. Intimacy and Disability 9. Working with Fat Actors 10. Black American Intimacy 11. Queer Intimacy 12. BDSM 13. Rope Scenes 14. Stories of Trauma 15. Sexual Violence and Non-Consent 16. Intimacy and Dance 17. Prosthetics Part 3: Moving Forward 18. The Intimacy Captain 19. Qualification 20. Adapting Your Process 21. Hopes for the Industry
