Application Deadline: sunday, february 16TH, 2025 AT 11:59PM EST.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility, or require assistance with this application, please contact accessibility@playwrights.ca.
This exploring practice workshop considers how consent — both psychological and physical — applies to a creative and process-oriented context. While a given project might not have an intimacy coordinator/director in the room, or even any intimate content, considerations around consent are always present.
Facilitated by theatre creator and Intimacy Coordinator/Director Burcu Emeç, this workshop will focus on consent-forward approaches in the development phase of a performance. The workshop aims to equip artists with tools, practices, and vocabulary to build confidence around consent that they can apply to their own processes. The workshop will also help participants form questions around intimacy, nudity, and other highly charged or sensitive content for consideration in the development phase. This opportunity is open to all artists working in live performance, and may be of particular interest to collective creators, dance makers, interdisciplinary creators, writers, directors, producers, stage managers, choreographers, and dramaturgs.
Please note this workshop does not constitute intimacy coordinator/director training.
SCHEDULE
Monday, March 24, 2025: 10AM to 2PM
Tuesday, March 25, 2025: 10AM to 2PM
Wednesday, March 26, 2025: 10AM to 2PM
Thursday, March 27, 2025: 10AM to 2PM
Friday, March 28, 2025: 10AM to 2PM
LOCATION
PWM Studio: 7250 Rue Clark #103, Montreal, Quebec, H2R2Y3
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HOW TO APPLY:
If you are interested in applying, please fill out this Google Form by 11:59 PM EST on Sunday, February 16, 2025.
Questions about this workshop can be sent to leila@playwrights.ca with the subject line: Exploring Practice with Burcu Emeç.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility, or require assistance with this application, please contact accessibility@playwrights.ca.
Click here for accessibility information and video tours of our location.
PWM welcomes all applications. While recognizing that the identity of each person is fundamentally plural, and multidimensional, we strongly encourage applications from artists who are: Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit), Black, POC, racialized (including recent immigrants), 2SLGBTQQIPAA+, neurodivergent, disabled, living with chronic illness and/or chronic pain. PWM is strongly committed to supporting a wide range of cultural identities and lived experiences, therefore we encourage applicants to self-identify in their application if they are comfortable doing so.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP FACILITATOR:
Burcu Emeç is a theatre creator, intimacy coordinator (film/TV), and intimacy director (live performance) based in Tkaronto (Toronto). Her theatre/live art practice focuses on narrative beyond text and spatial and visual dramaturgy. She frequently weaves social commentary with images and explores the spaces between performativity and “non-acting.” Her theatre/live art work has found its place in varying venues like theatres, galleries, and parks, and has received support from performance companies and festivals like Festival TransAmériques (FTA), La SERRE-arts vivants, MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), SummerWorks, Playwrights Workshop Montréal, and Public Recordings.
Throughout her artistic path, Burcu has been interested in how the way artists collaborate impacts their work. This interest led her to work at Articule, one of Canada’s oldest artist-run centres, where she played a pivotal role in facilitating anti-harassment and anti-racist advocacy initiatives. The advocacy thread continues in Burcu’s current role as an intimacy professional for stage and screen, where she provides a consent-forward and movement-based framework to tell stories that involve nudity, intimacy, and sensitive content. Certified by SAG-AFTRA accredited IDC: Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (U.S.) and Intimacy Coordinators Canada, Burcu has worked for A24, CBS, Lionsgate, and Paramount+, amongst others. She received training from HBO’s Lead Intimacy Coordinator Alicia Rodis (The Deuce, Insecure, High Maintenance), the first to be hired by a major network, and Claire Warden, the first intimacy director on Broadway. Burcu has a complimentary background as an active listener, which enriches her work. Her approach is rooted in a queer, anti-racist, and sex-positive framework, striving to cultivate a supportive and empowering environment for every member of the team.
Headshot photo credit: Phanie Étier
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