[1] DRAMATURGY

An Intimacy Coordinator's (IC) work begins with the text. Your IC collaborator will study the play or script, identifying intimacy material, including nudity, simulated sex, romantic intimacy, physical violence, as well as family scenes involving excessive physical gesture. Once this breakdown is complete, the IC will take notes of the director's vision for these scenes, including specific nudity portrayal, physical actions & touch, their overall emotional tone, and their contribution to the development of the characters & the storytelling of the project. ICs are artistic collaborators who bring tools and processes that ensure the authentic depiction of intimacy, treating it as a central aspect of a project. Much like costumes or music.


[2] CHOREOGRAPHY 

Once the project's intimacy needs are identified, scenes are marked as (a) scenes requiring a closed set, (b) scenes that would benefit from a combination of choreography and improvisation (e.g. a highly specific simulated-sex scene), and (c) scenes that can be fully improvised within set boundaries that maintain consent and artistic integrity. The IC will then hold meetings with the actors to discuss individual boundaries & conserns, and will notate the moment-to-moment and/or improvisation score where needed.


[3] CONSENT 

On set, improvised material that imerges through blocking & filming, are fed back in to the score through practical consent & dramaturgy check-ins with the director & actors. As the score might shift, consent is reconfirmed frequently, while if boundaries are crossed accidentaly, ICs have possitive ways of reconsiling and re-establishing. Clear communication ensures professionals entering the work with enthusiasm and devotion to perform their best, and will perform their best when they are given respect and the right of choice.
 

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GEORGIA PAIZI 

intimacy coordinator | movement director | voicing breath practicioner

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GEORGIA PAIZI (she/her) is a bilingual (Greek/English) intimacy coordinator, funded choreographer (cochleares.com), and movement teacher certified in FM Alexander's & Joan Skinner's techniques. Born in Athens/Greece (1985), Georgia trained as an intimacy coordinator with the US-based Intimacy Directors & Coordinators Professionals (Consent Forward Artist 2022-2023, IDC Accelerator Program 2023-2024), completing IDC's internationally renowned training course recognized by SAG-AFTRA.​ 

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Georgia is the first Greek performing arts professional, and one of the very few based in Southern Europe & the Balkans, to specialize as an intimacy coordinator. She has a background in dance & voice, and university degrees in theatre & social sciences, with studies across Greece, Europe, UK & the US (BA, PG, MA, vocational trainings). She is an ARTworks (SNF) fellow in choreography (2021), a Greek State Scholarship recepient, and a Gill Clark Bursary & Trinity Laban awardee, while in 2023-24 Georgia was shortlisted for a British Council Alumni Award (Culture & Creativity) and a Fulbright Greek Arts Professionals Scholarship. 

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Having worked primarily as a choreographer & movement educator in Athens, London & Berlin (with additional experience as a performer in dance, film & theater, as well as assistant directing and producing) Georgia brings over 15 years of experience of working with actors to her role as an intimacy coordinator. Since 2020, Georgia curates COCHLEA studia and is the artistic director of international mid-career dance & movement course GUTS | EYES | BONES | BOUNDARIES. She has extensive experience in the pioneering movement pedagogies that -since the 1970s- develop in Northen Europe & the US, and is a member of the Alexander Technique teachers' International, the Skinner Releasing Technique teachers' Network, the Greek Dance Union, and the greek department of Women in Film & Television. She is a mother of two. 

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Rooted in continuous education, high artistry and strong ties to the collegial community, Georgia’s approach aspires to bring nuance and diversity to the depiction of human intimacy, contributing to multilayered storytelling and authentic character development on safe sets, and with respect for the performing professionals.

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Donwload Georgia's full CV here. 

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