The Women Making Simulated Sex Safer For Actors

Picture doing this job: “Alicia Rodis walks onto set in New York with a mission: to oversee the shooting of a very complex – and daring – group sex scene for a TV series on a major US network. She’s there to make sure the director observes the intimacy boundaries set by each of the 30 actors taking part. She keeps track of the conditions of their consent on a big spreadsheet, to make sure everyone is comfortable when the camera rolls.” – BBC

The Choreographer Reimagining How We See Dance

Chris Emile does DIY dance all over LA, bringing in audiences who normally might stay away from spaces like museums, or from traditional dance stages. He says, “It was really important for us to show people of color in our performances and just be physically closer to the audience, because we felt that was the way to get people impacted and get people involved in what we were doing.” (It’s working.) – Los Angeles Times

Not Wiped Off The Face Of The Earth, But Instead Surviving Through Art

An exhibition that covers 1000 years is going to have some unknown artists, but in addition, “native women’s art was usually anonymized and identified by tribal affiliation when exhibited in museums, says co-curator Jill Ahlberg Yohe. ‘This was a Nez Perce object, or an Apache dress,’ she explains by way of example.” But the names of contemporary Native artists will live on. – NPR

The Oregon Shakepeare Festival’s New Director Is Still Surprised By How Much Audiences Love Her Theatres

Despite the issues of the past ten years – forest fire smoke, some ugly moments in the town between a small business owner and some company members, not to mention that beam collapse in 2011 – the Oregon Shakespeare Festival seems to be thriving. New AD Nataki Garrett says, “‘I’ve never been to a theater where people move to a city to be closer to the theater’ … She’s talking about the passion and dedication of the festival’s nationwide audience, and about inheriting the leadership of a company that can inspire fans to not just buy tickets but rent U-Hauls.” – Oregon Artswatch