Intimacy Choreography

My goal as an intimacy choreographer is to encourage and advocate for agency in rehearsals and performances so artists feel safe while still meeting the director’s vision. I do this by prioritizing consent based practices in rehearsals, teaching actors and directors boundary-practice tools, and by using a desexualized and de-loaded process to create culturally competent choreography with detailed documentation procedures.

Selected Qualifications:

• Recent Projects:
  • the ripple, the wave that carried me home, Theatre Nova, Intimacy Choreographer
  • Luna Vacia, Black and Brown Theatre, Intimacy Consultant
  • Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare Royal Oak, Intimacy Choreographer
  • Detroit ’67 (2022, 2023, 2024), Detroit Public Theatre, Intimacy Choreographer
  • Bootycandy, The Ringwald Theatre, Intimacy Choreographer
  • Kilo Batra: In Death More Radiant, A Host of People, Intimacy Consultant
  • Black and Brown Theatre Company Intimacy Onboarding
• Theatrical Intimacy Education (34 Hours): Best Practices; Consent in the Acting Classroom; Foundations in Race, Intimacy, and Consent; Trauma Informed Practices; Modesty Garments, Barriers, and Masking; Race and Choreography; Intimacy Choreography; Qualifications: Building Your Intimacy Resume; Power Play; Staging Sex: Outercourse
• Bystander Intervention Specialist
• Sexual Misconduct Prevention Educator
• Unconscious Bias Educator
• Conflict Resolution Training
• Toward an Anti Racist Michigan Theatre, BLQN
• CPR/First Aid Certified, American Red Cross
• Adult Mental Health First Aid USA Certified Trainer, National Council for Mental Wellbeing

Photo Credit Chuk Nowak, Detroit ’67, Detroit Public Theatre
Featuring Salakastar and Edmund Alyn Jones

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