Columbia College Chicago recently launched its Intimacy for Stage and Screen program, an in-depth, year-long graduate certificate program focused on coordination, choreography, and advocacy for ...

“OK. We’re going to go through kissing right now.” That isn’t quite what it sounds like. With nine of his Columbia College Chicago undergraduate students, in Room 226 of the 916 Wabash Building, Greg ...

When Carla Pantoja first got the script for “Stage Kiss,” running Jan. 16-Feb. 16 at City Lights Theater Company, she flagged every instance of violence or intimacy. “It was a book full of tabs,” says ...

According to Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development, a theory developed by psychologist Erik Erikson in the 1950s, there are eight stages of psychosocial development: trust versus mistrust, ...

Sheryl Williams knew the kiss was a trick — that’s how the stage direction described it. But after her male lead twitched his head from her cheek to her lips, as he was supposed to, she froze. The ...

Although psychologists have studied intimacy for decades, there is no one agreed-upon definition of it. There are two predominant ideas regarding what intimacy is (see Cook, 2014): Following Erik ...

London — Two years after the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal fueled the MeToo movement, the media industry has been forced to rethink how it produces sexual content on stage and on screen. The ...

In my practice as a psychotherapist, I’ve observed a remarkable pattern in the lives of people who are striving for a life filled with healthy intimacy. As I describe in my book Deeper Dating, this ...

Many theater productions and films in the past few years have added a person on set beyond the cast and crew: an intimacy coordinator. This third-party advocate creates a “safe space” during moments ...

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