Which certification program should I enrol in to become an Intimacy Professional?
I’m often asked “Which intimacy certification program I would recommend?”. First, I would ask if you need certification, or are you looking to get qualifications. There’s a debate in the field as to what the industry needs more. I’ll just leave these here for you to...
Closure for work satisfaction
I'm always excited to find additional support for the methods we recommend, and I find a lot of them in TEDtalks. This one supports the case for closure, not just for actors, but for everyone. There's a few suggestions for rituals and small ways we can trick our...
Enhanced Intimacy for Directors and Actors
This is specifically intended for folks who are interested in becoming Intimacy Directors. It will cover the foundation principles of Intimacy Choreography and supporting skills and concepts that are crucial for achieving successful scenes of intimacy. This course is...
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The Experience of Stage Combat
The feeling you get when you watch a fight is different than the feeling of performing it. When we watch a fight as an audience, we tend to remember the image of the end points (completion of the attack and the parry), and the experience of the pathway. As a...
Receiving Your Choreography
In this series of posts, we're looking at the various stages of learning your fight scene. Reminder: this blog is full of helpful hints, but you can't really learn this art form in isolation. At some point, you need a teacher to help you build strong foundations, and...
The Virtues Project
I'm starting to take a webinar with The Virtues Project. I first heard about it from Christine Ayling when I was up in Grande Prairie to teach. From talking to Christine in person, to listening to her TEDtalk (see below), and reading up on The Virtues Project website,...
FlashFood
Flashfood is a way to get discounted groceries. Grocery stores post when they area putting food on at a discount, you purchase it, and pick it up! Super easy! At all FarmBoy locations in Ontario. Check out their website for more info. Download the free app (scroll to...
Mindfulness: essential emotional fitness
Mindfulness training can make you more resilient and compassionate, less reactive in situations of high stress. Soldiers reported that not only did daily mindfulness exercises decrease the chances of PTSD, but it also INCREASED the chances of Post-Traumatic GROWTH....
Union resources
In light of the current #metoo, I want to be sure that people know some of their options when facing harassment in the performance workplace. Ideally these actions are prevented, but if you have experienced harassment in the workplace here is how your unions have your...
Heart Warriors
Intimacy choreography has been a fundamental tool for me as an actor and as a human with boundaries. My boundaries are very different now from what they were when I was 16. I have triggers now that never existed before. Without intimacy choreography, I don’t know that...
Body Cam footage
You need a fight director/stunt coordinator. Find a good one. Engage their services. Celebrate your incident-free production. NB: No one is harmed in this body cam footage. Also, as soon as the police show up, DO WHAT THEY SAY, and read what Carly says below. ...
The Toronto Cyclists Handbook
Where has this been all my life?! I picked this up at the Toronto Public Library today. Has some excellent info on riding your bike in Toronto, including a quick reminder of the rules of the road, how to signal, handling intersections, and what you can be fined for....
Film Intimacy at the ACTRA Fall Members’ Conference
I'll be on the panel for FILM INTIMACY at the ACTRA Fall Members' Conference. Schedule here. The conference is free to members who register. Register...
Supporting Intimacy
In 2004, Tonia Sina began her work on creating what is now the Intimacy for the Stage method. At the time, the idea of being an “Intimacy Specialist” was completely new. 12 years later, Intimacy Directors International (IDI) was founded to...
Your Musical Theatre Book
Putting this here for safe-keeping and reference! I'm going to be doing a pocketLIVE broadcast where I go over my book. This looks like a good jumping off point. ...
Video Cropping
Today's helpful app: Video Crop. For Slate shots the videos need to be in an 8 x 10 ratio in a portrait orientation. My videos came back from my photographer in a standard landscape orientation,s so to the internets for a cheap or free app. I found Video Crop, which...