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Intimacy Coordination Athens Greece Europe
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GEORGIA PAIZI (she/her) is a bilingual (Greek/English) Intimacy Coordinator, movement teacher & funded choreographer (COCHLEA non-profit), born in Athens/Greece (1985). Georgia trained as an intimacy coordinator with the US-based Intimacy Directors & Coordinators Professionals —Consent Forward Artist (Level 1 & 2, 2022-2023), Accelerator Program (Phase 1, 2 & 3 2023-2024)— completing IDC's internationally renowned training course recognized by SAG-AFTRA.

Georgia is the first Greek performing arts professional, and one of the very few based in Southern Europe & the Balkans, to specialize as an intimacy coordinator. She has a background in dance & voice, and university degrees in theatre & social sciences, with studies across Greece, Europe, UK & the US (BA, PG, MA, vocational trainings). She is an ARTworks (SNF) fellow in choreography, (2021), a State Scholarship recepient,  a  Gill Clark Bursary and Trinity Laban awardee, while in 2023-24 Georgia was shortlisted for a British Council Alumni Award (Culture and Creativity) and a Fulbright Greek Arts Professionals Scholarship.

Having worked primarily as a choreographer & movement educator in Athens, London & Berlin -with additional experience as a performer in dance, film & theater, as well as assistant directing and producing- Georgia brings over 10 years of experience in working with actors & dancers in the performing arts industry & education to her role as an intimacy coordinator. Since 2020, Georgia curates COCHLEA studia and is the artistic director of international mid-career dance & movement course GUTS | EYES | BONES | BOUNDARIES. She has a extensive experience in the pioneering movement pedagogies that -since the 1970s- develop in Northen Europe & the US. She is a member of the Alexander Technique teachers' International, the Skinner Releasing Technique teachers' Network, the Greek Dance Union, and the greek department of Women in Film & Television. She is a mother of two.

Georgia's approach to intimacy work is rooted in continuous education, high artistry and strong bonds to the collegial community. She works closely with a network of specialists whose embodied and professional expertise bring nuance and diversity to her work, in confidence that simulated sex, nudity and intimacy in film and performance are powerful storytelling elements that require detail, care and multidisciplinary craftswomanship.

 Find Georgia's full cv here

Intimacy Coordination Athens Greece Europe
Intimacy Coordination Athens Greece Europe
Intimacy Coordination Athens Greece Europe

 

PROJECTS

 

⫸ Major Platform Streaming Series 

(season 2, 2025)

major international collaboration

filming in Greece

⫸ The Corpse Flower (2025) 

directed by Calliopi Beku 

producer Calliopi Beku 

 

⫸ Disqualified (2025) 

directed by Dimitris Zouras 

producer Isavella Alopoudi

Neda Film 

 

⫸ Untitled Feature Film (2025) 

international collaboration

to be filmed in Greece

PRESS & MEDIA

⫸ Georgia Paizi, how is a safe intimate scene

really filmed in the movies?

Read Georgia's interview to Christina Galanopoulou

for the AthensVoice magazin here

⫸ The post- #MeToo cinema era

Six women in the creative industry

in conversation with Anna Routchi

for monopoli.gr

Find it here

⫸ WIFT GR | Conversation between

Mary Kolonia, Ariane Labed, Maria Louka,

Iossifina Grivea, Georgia Paizi, and Elina Psykou:  

post- #MeToo cinema

Watch it on YouTube here.

 

 Radio show Cultural Magazino

FM105.5 StoKokkino | 13.01.2025

Maria Thanassoulia & Georgia Paizi

on the first show for 2025

on intimacy coordination

in Greece & the world.

Listen to their conversation

on SoundCloud

WORKSHOPS 

⫸ Women in Film & Television 50/50 festival 2024 

Georgia is facilitating

a workshop on 

“Consent Forward Practices

& Tools for the

Audiovisual Production” 

at this year’s WIFT Festival. Check this year's program

here.

⫸ COCHLEA studia 

Stay tuned for

CONSENT IN THE

PERFORMING ARTS

termly workshop

coming this February.

Intimacy Coordination Athens Greece Europe



EVERYTHING
YOU WANT
TO ASK
ABOUT INTIMACY COORDINATORS

and what
we actually do 
*


 

 

 

 

• DON’T WE RUIN THE DIRECTOR’S VISION • AREN’T WE THE SEX POLICE • AREN’T WE JUST AN UNNECESSARY COST • AREN’T ACTORS ALREADY TRAINED FOR THIS • DON’T WE MAKE THINGS FLAT & TECHNICAL • DON’T WE KILL SPONTANEITY • ISN’T THIS JUST OPENING THE DOOR TO ENDLESS NEGOTIATIONS • AREN’T WE PART OF THE CANCEL CULTURE AGENDA • ISN’T THIS JUST PRUDERY AND CENSORSHIP • DON’T WE MAKE THINGS WORSE • ISN'T THIS JUST A WEEKEND WORKSHOP SPECIALISATION • DON’T WE RUIN THE DIRECTOR’S VISION • AREN’T WE THE SEX POLICE • AREN’T WE JUST AN UNNECESSARY COST • AREN’T ACTORS ALREADY TRAINED FOR THIS • DON’T WE MAKE THINGS FLAT & TECHNICAL • DON’T WE KILL SPONTANEITY • ISN’T THIS JUST OPENING THE DOOR TO ENDLESS NEGOTIATIONS • AREN’T WE PART OF THE CANCEL CULTURE AGENDA • ISN’T THIS JUST PRUDERY AND CENSORSHIP • DON’T WE MAKE THINGS WORSE • DON’T WE RUIN THE DIRECTOR’S VISION • AREN’T WE THE SEX POLICE

*1

studying
the play or
the script

The first thing an Intimacy Coordinator (IC) does is study the play or script identifying intimacy material, including nudity, simulated sex, romantic intimacy, physical violence, as well as family scenes involving excessive physical gestures.

 

Once this breakdown is complete, the IC takes notes of the director's vision for these scenes, including specific nudity portrayal, physical actions & gestures, their overall emotional tone, and their contribution to the development of the characters & the storytelling of the project.

*2

choreography 
facilitates
improvisation

Once the project's intimacy needs are identified, scenes are marked as:

 

    •    Scenes requiring a closed set.

    •    Scenes that would benefit from a combination of choreography and improvisation (e.g. a highly specific simulated-sex scene). 

    •    Scenes that can be fully improvised within set boundaries that maintain consent and artistic integrity.

 

The IC then holds meetings with the actors to discuss individual boundaries & individual conserns, and notates the moment-to-moment and/or improvisation score

*3

feeding
improvisation
back into the score

On set, improvised materials that imerge through blocking & filming, are fed back in to the score through practical consent & dramaturgy check-ins with the director & actors. As the score might shift through acting and artistry, consent is reconfirmed frequently, while if boundaries are crossed accidentaly, ICs have possitive ways of reconsiling and re-establishing.

 

Clear communication ensures professionals entering the work with enthusiasm and devotion to perform their best, and will perform their best when they are given the right of choise & respect.




SEX
& A NEW GENRE

intimacy coordinators are to realistic sex-scenes what costume designers are to period films, and some great projects have both*



 

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Ensuring consent and introducing new technical and narrative tools to the performance of intimacy, intimacy coordinators (ICs) have played a pivotal role in shaping a new kind of realism, particularly since 2020, when SAG-AFTRA began overseeing official training programs.

 

This shift has led to the authentic portrayal of the full spectrum of human sexual expression, moving away from vague insinuations, lifeless stereotypes, awkward staging hidden conveniently behind curtains, and coercive improvisations that barely conceal the actors’ discomfort.

 

Today, this evolution has given rise to projects such as *The Great (IC Katherine Hardman), Normal People (IC Ita O'Brien), Rivals (ICs Yarit Dor & Enric Ortuno), and Sex Education (ICs Ita O'Brien & David Thackery), where sex is portrayed with diversity, depth, and realism -awkward, passionate, funny, dirty, unsuccessful, explosive, or even traumatic and violent.

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