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Grappling with Consent
Thursday October 24, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
B17 Open Studio
Since the development of Intimacy Direction, theatre artists have been grappling with how to stage physical moments of touch ORGANICALLY through consent.  Virginia Tech just produced Selina Fillinger's hilarious farce, "POTUS: Or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive" that required everyone in the creative team and cast to grapple with actual, physical grappling onstage.

Virginia Tech Fight and Intimacy Director Cara Rawlings will guide you through improvisational tools she used to help actors in the show develop organic, repeatable, and consensual choreography for a PHYSICAL GRAPPLING moment like the one Fillinger describes in the following Act 2 stage directions: "Bernadette nabs Stephanie by the inner tube and drags her, struggling, back to Chris. Stephanie bites Bernadette, attempting to escape...They try to shove Stephanie into the closet. She resists. They both have to hold the door shut."

Attendants of the workshop are invited to participate at whatever level they wish.  Physical participation in the workshop includes consensual physical touch in structured contact improvisations based on the actions of grabbing, pushing, and pulling another person.  Anyone is welcome to participate through observation and discussion.
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Cara Rawlings

Associate Professor of Movement and Acting, Virginia Tech
Cara Rawlings (she/her) is an intimacy and fight director, choreographer, and movement specialist based in Southwest Virginia where she is Associate Professor of Movement and Acting at Virginia Tech. A Certified Intimacy Director and Teaching Artist with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators... Read More →
Thursday October 24, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
B17 Open Studio 403 North 3rd Street, Richmond, VA, USA
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