Consent Practices in Performing Arts Education

This book explores consent as a foundationalprinciple to guide practices and policies inuniversity level performing arts education. Itincludes descriptions of the structural powerdynamics present in educational spaces as well astools for defusing them. It adapts the consent-forward protocols that are foundational to intimacytraining in order to apply them to classroom andrehearsal spaces across performing artsdisciplines. This includes opening lines ofcommunication, actively discussing personalboundaries and modeling behavior that respectsthose boundaries. Additionally, the book usesexperiential reflections to address the real-worldchallenges that teachers face as they work toreshape their teaching habits and processes toinclude consent practices.