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Record Nr.

UNINA9910746994203321

Autore

Barclay Kari

Titolo

Directing Desire : Intimacy Choreography and Consent in the Twenty-First Century / / by Kari Barclay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

3-031-31222-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 pages)

Disciplina

792.9

792.028092

Soggetti

Theater - History

Theater - Production and direction

Actors

Cultural industries

Theater

Contemporary Theatre and Performance

Theatre Direction and Production

Performers and Practitioners

Theatre Industry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction Boundary Practice -- Chapter 2. Erotic Repetitions: A Brief History of Intimacy Choreography -- Chapter 3. Sexual Script Analysis: Sex Positivity and Authorship in Intimate Scenes -- Chapter 4. “Intermediate” Pornography: Mediating Presence with the Intimacy Kit -- Chapter 5. Playing with Trauma: Race, Consent, and Culturally Responsive Intimacy -- Chapter 6. Immersive Intimacy: Violation and Transformative Justice in Immersive Performance -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: Keep in Touch.

Sommario/riassunto

Directing Desire explores the rise of consent-based and trauma-informed approaches to staging sexually and sensually charged scenes for theater in the contemporary U.S., known as intimacy choreography. From 2015 to 2020, intimacy choreography transformed from a grassroots movement in experimental and regional theaters into a best



practice accepted in Hollywood and on Broadway. Today, intimacy choreographers have become a veritable "intimacy industry" in the cultural sphere, sparking attention from Rolling Stone to The New York Times to the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live. This book analyzes the forces that have led to intimacy choreography’s meteoric rise and asks what implications the field has for theater practice more broadly. Building a theoretical framework for intimacy directing, Directing Desire also strives to reorient the conversation in the field so that artists understand not only best practices in consent but also intersectional frameworks that expand and rework consent.