Body On Stage: Best Practices

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course explores how theater, film, and TV actors, directors, and artists can implement best practices to create equitable production and rehearsal environments. Through readings, case studies, and hands-on lab work, students will examine the politics and history of the mind/body relationship and its influence on contemporary creative processes. Topics include creating open and inclusive spaces, Check-Ins, and the role of intimacy direction in harm-reduction practice, culminating in a workshop with a professional intimacy choreographer. By the end of the course, students will be equipped to become more radically inclusive and conscientious artists and leaders.