Join Alison Stanton-Cook for a 2 hour workshop tailored for creatives in music, theatre, and the arts. This session covers essential consent-based intimacy practices for staging intimate scenes in plays and musicals. You’ll learn how to:
- Choreograph and structure intimate moments
- Respect boundaries to enhance creativity
- Use placeholders and de-loading techniques
- Implement professional practices on set and in theatre
Empower your artistry with tools to ensure a safe and respectful environment in every performance. Ideal for students and aspiring creatives working in the arts.
As a society we are moving towards more supportive, safe and accessible practices in the arts. Telling stories often involves physical and emotional connections between performers and/or engaging with complex or sensitive topics. The role of an Intimacy Coordinator can provide tools, processes and language to support the creative process and these can extend through all aspects of media, film, theatre and journalism. This workshop will offer information about the best practices in the arts when it comes to consent, disclosure, communication, self care and respecting boundaries.
About Alison:
Alison is an acting coach, writer, director and intimacy coordinator based in nipaluna/Hobart. She is the Lead Tutor at Screen Acting Crew with 40+ students weekly. Alison holds her Advanced Diploma of Performing Arts from Actors Centre Australia and has trained extensively with Theatrical Intimacy Education, an Intimacy Coordination education organisation based in NY. She is also a specialist in Laban acting and movement technique and was mentored by renowned Laban coach Adrian Barnes. Alison has worked as an intimacy coordinator on productions including The Box with Mudlark Theatre, Spring Awakening with Black Box Theatre, This is Our Youth with Golding Tooker Productions, The Uni Revue and Shrek with Old Nick Company and The Wedding Singer with Claremont College. Alison has assisted acclaimed acting coach Miranda Harcourt and trained with Lesly Kahn & Company (US) and Les Chantery in Sydney. Alison was awarded her Mental Health First Aid certificate by Screenwell, with the aim of helping to improve mental health in the film and television industry in Tasmania.
Alison’s debut short film ROE (Running On Empty) about a teacher struggling to set boundaries with her students as an underfunded public school has won multiple awards and been selected to screen at festivals including Very Short Film Festival, BOFA, St Kilda Film Festival, Fleurieu Film Festival, Woman Up! Film Festival, CinefestOZ and the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in the USA. Alison recently completed a Directors Attachment role on the ABC’s production Bay of Fires season 2 with support from Screen Australia and Screen Tasmania.
