The K-State Dance Program is hosting a virtual master class, "The Ethics of Teaching Dance With(out) Touch" with guest artist Nicole Perry on Tuesday March 7, 2023 from 11:30am-12:45pm. Any K-State student interested in participating should contact Kate Digby at kdigby@ksu.edu to reserve a spot in the class.

The master class will explore: How do dance students know and establish boundaries when it comes to touch? How do choreographers and teachers help cultivate collaboration, communication, and consent in their own creative processes? Touch is part of teaching and performing dance, therefore, in order to promote safety and agency, practices of consent and personal agency should be cultivated. This interactive session is an introduction to working consent, as a way of creating collaborative, healthy, creative spaces for dancers.

Nicole Perry is a Silver Palm award-winning intimacy director, as well as intimacy coordinator and dance choreographer in South Florida. Career highlights include 2 Broward County Artist Investment Grants for KINesphere (site-inspired dance works), intimacy coordination for God Forbid on Hulu, and a Carbonell nomination for the intimacy direction of To Fall in Love at Theatre Lab.

Nicole is a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst and provides workshops on Laban, as well as Consent and Power in Creative Practice, through Momentum Stage. She founded this non-profit to provide affordable, virtual professional development for performing artists and arts educators.

Nicole holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts, with concentrations in Performance Creation and Decolonial Arts Praxis from Goddard College. She is an adjunct professor of dance at the University of Miami.

Nicole is a member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the Dance Studies Association, the National Dance Education Organization, and the Association of Theatre Movement Educators. She apprenticed with Intimacy Directors International, and is certified in both Intimacy Direction and Intimacy Coordination with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC). Insta: @dancendrama and @intimacychoreofl TikTok: @intimacychoreofl