For Theatre and Dance Spaces

Workshops on:

Power Dynamics, Consent-Forward Practices, Boundaries, Closure, & the Ethics of Touch.

Studios

The Power Dynamics between teacher and students, as well as the tradition of touch-centric and teacher-centric pedagogies make movement studios and performer training programs vulnerable to abuses of power.

Thankfully, these are also places that can facilitate personal agency through implementation of Consent-forward Practices, Ethics of Touch, and a creation of “Power With”.

Nicole offers consultations, workshops and courses through Momentum Stage. She designed the Care-full Creativity Accreditation Program offered through Momentum for studios to demonstrate training and commitment in consent-forward, trauma-informed, psychologically safe dance pedagogy.

Nicole is proud to be a Guide for Dance Education Equity Association on these topics and has worked with multiple dance studios, conventions, and competitions on these topics.

Schools and Academic Spaces

The Power Dynamics that exist in studios are significantly compounded by grading in academic settings. As teachers, we have a responsibility to teach our students not just technique, but offer opportunities for them to step into their own personal and creative powers.

Nicole teaches pedagogy courses through Momentum Stage, NDEO, and The Laban Institute for Movement Studies (LIMS). She also offers dance and/or theatre institutional consultations and guest sessions for professional development or for students through Momentum Stage. She designed the Care-full Creativity Accreditation Program offered through Momentum for academic dance programs to demonstrate training and commitment in consent-forward, trauma-informed, psychologically safe dance pedagogy.

Past clients include:

• Barry University

• Drexel University (Theatre)

• Episcopal Academy (HS Fine and Performing Arts Dept.)

• Kansas State University (Dance)

• Lynn University (Theatre)

• NC State University (Dance)

• New World School of the Arts (College Theatre Dept)

• New York Film Academy- Miami Beach

• PA Leadership Charter School (MS/HS Fine and Performing Arts Dept.)

• University of Miami (Dance) (Grad and Undergrad Film)

• University of New Hampshire (Theatre)

• University of Utah (Undergrad, Dance)

• University of Wyoming (Dance)

• Utah Valley University (Dance)

• W & L University (Theatre, Dance and Film Studies)

• Actors’ Think Tank

• Book from Tape

• City Theatre (South Florida)

• Dance Data Project

• Drama Teacher’s Academy

• IADMS (with Intimacy Direction in Dance)

• Maltz Jupiter Theatre (South Florida)

Professional Companies

The professional dance and theatre worlds are not exempt from abuses of power, physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Consent-based practices can be an integrated part of professional work for actors and dancers. Intimacy choreography can also be applied in dance as well as theatre.

Learn how to support your performers, and keep them safe, so they can be their best creative selves in your spaces. Nicole offers consultations, workshops and courses through Momentum Stage. Past clients include:

• Miami New Drama

• Minding the Gap (with Intimacy Direction in Dance)

• One Dance UK

• Shakespeare & Company

• The South Florida Theatre League

• Theatre Alliance Roundtable (San Diego)

• TheatreLab (South Florida)

• Theatrical Outfit (Atlanta)

Nicole is proud to be Guide for Dance Education Equity Association on these topics and has worked with multiple dance conventions and competitions on these topics.

Conference Presentations

Nicole regularly presents abbreviated versions of her consent and power dynamics work at dance and theatre specific conferences. Past appearances include:

Consulting

Nicole offers consulting for dance conventions, production companies, academic institutions, screenwriters and playwrights on:

• Dance and Dance History

• Intimacy for Stage and Screen

• Pedagogy- particularly the integration of consent-forward, trauma-informed, psychologically safe tools for movement classrooms

• Theatre and Theatre History

• Academia

• Ex-vangelical and/or Deconstructed Christian faith, particularly in light of the Christian Nationalist Movement

Public Appearances (see podcasts, publications, and press on the Dance and Intimacy pages)

Women in Film and TV Workshop Wednesday June 2023- What is Intimacy Coordination

Miami Film Festival, 2023- What is Intimacy Coordination

Film Florida Fridays, Oct. 2022- What is Intimacy Coordination

Wilzig Erotic Art Museum “Tea & Sex” Series, July 2020- Intimacy and Sex in Entertainment

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