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In-person Arts & Culture

Intimacy Workshop for Actors

Thursday, March 13, 2025
6:30pm to 9:30pm

Part of: SkirtsAfire Festival

La Cité Francophone

theatre festival

Tickets are under $100

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March
13

This workshop is for actors who would like to deepen their practice and further their knowledge in performing theatrical intimacy. We will cover a lot of trauma-informed theory and practical work that aims to empower performers by giving them tools, vocabulary, and a chance to practice implementing the best practices of performing staged intimacy.

This class will cover:

the basic principles of consent and boundaries for auditions, the rehearsal room, and the show run
models for how to balance self-advocacy and personal responsibility when navigating the stories and characters actors embody
fundamental knowledge about trust, power, safety and the “body/brain/heart” responses to performed intimacy on stage
tips and tricks for communicating with directors and stage managers about performed intimacy
opportunities to implement theory work through exercises that include physical touch, “clinical”, prescribed choreography, and emotional intention
choreographic “language” tools to further your own vocabulary in rehearsals and deepen your process as an actor

La Cité Francophone

8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury
Edmonton, AB, T6C 3N1