This workshop is an overview TIE’s Best Practices, including tools for developing a consent-based process, setting boundaries, desexualizing the process, choreographing intimacy, and documentation.
CHELSEA PACE is Co-Founder and Head Faculty of Theatrical Intimacy Education and works professionally as an intimacy choreographer, coordinator, and educator. Chelsea has been developing ethical, efficient, and effective systems for staging intimacy for over 10 years and she has shared her work with thousands of theatre and film artists around the world. Her book, Staging Sex: Best Practices, Tools, and Techniques for Theatrical Intimacy was released in March 2020 from Routledge Publishing. Her next book on the topic of creating ethical arts institutions is in progress. Chelsea is the current President of The Association for Theatre Movement Educators and is the Assistant Professor of Movement at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
www.chelseapace.com www.theatricalintimacyed.com
LAURA RIKARD, MFA, MA (SAG-AFTRA/AEA/SDC) is an intimacy choreographer and coordinator, director, actor and professor. She is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of South Carolina Upstate. She is Co-Founder and Head Faculty of Theatre Intimacy Education. Laura choreographs, consults, and teaches workshops on best practices for staging intimacy for professional and educational theatre and film across the country. She serves as the primary Intimacy Choreographer for the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She is an Intimacy Coordinator with NBC Universal. As a director and actor, she has worked in film and television, NYC, regionally, on national tours, internationally and devised solo productions. She is a recipient of the Best Acting award at the Virginia Film and has been named by Academic Keys as a "Who's Who in Fine Arts Education" Festival. She has served on faculty at Stephen F. Austin State University, Brown University, and the University of Miami. She received her MA in Acting from Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, MFA in Drama from the University of Virginia and her BA in Theatre from the College of Charleston. She is based in the home of the Cherokee Nation, Asheville, NC.