Covid Choreography: Redefining Intimacy On sets

Citation

Horeck T & Berridge S (2024) Covid Choreography: Redefining Intimacy On sets. In: Mayer V, Lavie N & Banks M (eds.) Media Industries in Crisis: What Covid unmasked. New York: Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003387794-24/covid-choreography-uk-tanya-horeck-susan-berridge

Abstract
This chapter outlines the key lessons learned from UK intimacy coordinators during the COVID crisis regarding the importance of consent and care on set. While consent and care were already foundational elements of intimacy coordination practice, the pandemic heightened their significance and created new opportunities for intimacy coordinators to articulate their professional practice. Drawing from interviews with intimacy coordinators, this chapter considers how the new awareness of interpersonal boundaries and consent brought about not only by the global #MeToo movement but also by the pandemic might be retained to reframe understandings of intimacy and safety in the entertainment industry.