Join Dr. James D Walters, Assistant Professor of Dance Danielle Lydia Sheather, and Alec Barbour Theater Actor, Fight Director and Intimacy Director, and Certified Stage combat Teacher as we dive into the excitement of stage combat and the necessity for intimacy coordination. Listen to how these too tools can become necessary elements for physical and mental health but also how they can become necessary to enhancing sotrytelling and fight dynamics. Learn how contact improv can in some ways be similar to fight choreography and how fight choreography can be drastically different from traditional dance choreography and seen as, "ugly ballet with dangerous props." Consider how art literacy can play a role in these idioms and how rubber stamping productions with these vital tools can be detrimental to the performance but also to the wellbeing of folx involved!

Musical contributions by Alexandra Ausman, Graphic Design by Dr. Kelsey Elliot. Views expressed in this podcast solely reflect the authors' and guests' views and not any organization to which an affiliation might be present.