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Notes from the Field
Community based open-source resource published by Theatrical Intimacy Education. Each issue is available to download from JCBP website.
First in a three part series about intimacy direction from 2021.
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All articles, podcasts, and videos from HowlRound covering intimacy direction.
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Second in a three part article from 2021 suggesting some best practices for approaching staged intimacy.
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A 2018 article discussing non-consensual audience interaction in dance performance.
Final article of three part series from 2021, providing tools for hiring intimacy professionals.
Podcast by Ann James and Carly Weckstein. 2020
Yorgos Lanthimos Says An Intimacy Coordinator Made “Everything Much Easier For Everyone” On ‘Poor Things’ Given Amount Of Nudity For Emma Stone". 2023
"How on-set Intimacy Coordinators are helping to fix a broken entertainment industry" interview with Ita O'Brien. 2021
Interview with Amanda Cutting and Kathy Kadler for the Wrap. 2023
"How Hollywood's Sex Scenes will Change With the New SAG-AFTRA Contract" 2023
Video news story covering the emergance and rise of intimacy direction and coordination as a result from the #MeToo movement. 2023.
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BOOKS
Reading suggestions about the industry, the body, movement vocabulary, performance techniques, advocacy, and anything that may one may find useful and return to as a guide.


Breath: The New Science
of a Lost Art
James Nestor

Staging Sex
Chelsea Pace

Supporting Staged Intimacy
Alexis Black &
Tina Newhauser

Intimacy Direction for The Theatre
Edited by Dr. Ayshia Mackie-Stephenson

Mastery of Movement
Rudolph Laban

Michael Chekhov Handbook
Leonard Pettit

Physical Actor Training
Andrei Droznin

The Pocket Guide to Polyvagal Theory
Stephen W. Porges

Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches
Sharrell Luckett & Tia M. Shaffer

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Down the Research Rabbit Hole
Continuing resources and reading on everything from advocacy, bystander training, anti-racism in theatre and much more.
