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"I’ve particularly enjoyed working with a movement director, Yarit Dor: a new experience for me. In our first weeks we did a lot of script and table work, uncovering the characters and the themes and all the little echoes in the play and then did movement in the afternoons. The physical games played with between Yarit and our three actors, Tom, Abbie and Richard, showed me the impulses that lie beneath text in a new and profound way." Playwright Cordelia Lynn, 'Love & Other Acts of Violence' at The Donmar Warehouse, 2021, Arts Desk Article
Yarit is an established and multi-faceted movement creative. Since 2007, she has worked professionally across stage and screen, directing and choreographing stage violence, movement, dance, and intimacy with a distinctive artistic vision.
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Based in London, UK, Yarit is recognised as one of the first intimacy directors and coordinators to work in the UK and EU. Her extensive portfolio spans film, television, theatre, musicals, dance, and opera. She crafts embodied movement and nuanced physical storytelling that brings authenticity to both intimate moments and large-scale ensemble work.
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Yarit is an Associate Artist of Shakespeare’s Globe and The Director’s Cut Theatre, as well as an Associate Teacher at RADA. In 2020, she was nominated for BAFTA London’s Shaker of the Year Award, and in 2023, she was honoured as a Fellow of Rose Bruford College for her outstanding contribution to intimacy practice in the UK.
Multidisciplinary Education
Yarit's professional education spans physical theatre, dance, movement, stage combat, martial arts, somatics, bodywork and wellbeing.
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Fight Direction, Stage Combat & Martial Arts
Fight Direction Workshops & Intinsives
BASSC Certified Stage Combat Teacher
Theatrical Firearms Safety Course (Barearms)
IDF Army Training (2 Years)
Bronze Medal Karate (North Isreal Championship 1999)
Additional training: Historical European Martial Arts, Capoeira, Escrima (Kali), Tai Chi.
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Intimacy For Screen & Stage
IDC Certified Intimacy Coordinator (SAG-AFTRA and BECTU Registered)
IDC Certified Intimacy Director
IDC Consent Forward Artist Certificate
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Bodywork & Wellbeing
Classical Pilates Teacher (mat and full studio equipment)
Garuda Instructor (mat & Garuda machine)
Somatic & Trauma Sensitive Movement Practitioner
Pre and Post Natal Pilates Instructor Certificate
Home Herbalist (Betonica and The Crafty Herbalist Academy)
Certificate in Permaculture Garden Design
Movement, Dance & Acting
MA in Theatre Directing (Rose Bruford College)
Jacques Lecoq Physical Theatre & Devising Certificate (LISPA, 2 year programme)
Postgraduate in Dance Studies (Trinity Laban Conservatoire)
Laban Guild International Certificate
Dance Theatre Diploma (3 years in home country)
Commedia dell'Arte 5 week full time training with Fabio Mangolini (Italy)
Le Jeu & Clown Intensive training with Philippe Gaulier
Period Dance: bursary recipient for the Historical Dance Society Intensive 2025 (Tudor and Renaissance Dance). Additional period dance trainings with: Darren Royston, Anne Daye, Sue Lefton, Jane Gibson, Quadrille Club.
Additional training with Gecko Theatre, Complicite, Told By An Idiot, Blind Summit (Puppetry), Little Angel Theatre, Movement For Actors ('Time & Space') with Glynn MacDonald, Laban For Actors ('Condensed, Imagined & Real') with Vanessa Ewan, Viewpoints & Suzuki workshops.
Teaching in Higher Education
Postgraduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (Rose Bruford College)
Shakespeare's Globe Higher Education Practitioner
Teaching topics: Movement For Actors, Stage Combat, Intimacy For Actors & Directors, Commedia dell'Arte, Clown, Bouffon, Games For Rehearsals, Experimental Anatomy.
Previous teaching includes: RADA, LAMDA, Guildhall, Arts Ed, East 15, Italia Conti Acting, Drama Studio London, National Film & TV School, Met Film School, London Film School.
​In August 2020 she helped to establish Bectu Union's Intimacy Coordinators Branch and was elected to chair its first committee.
In 2020 Yarit Dor co-founded INTIMASK, the first worldwide modesty garment online shop selling garments in 6 different skin tones and various sizes primarily aimed for Intimacy Coordinators/Directors and Costume Departments. Read Yarit's article on modesty garments in the Journal of Consent-Based Performance.
In 2022, with the help of One Dance UK, Yarit & Moving body Arts Ltd created a panel for the Dance Industry discussing staging intimacy, violence and autobiographical material.​​
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Contribution to the entertainment industry
In 2023 Yarit was awarded a Fellow of Rose Bruford College for her contribution to the development and implementation of intimacy direction and intimacy coordination in the UK industry.
Yarit started working professionally as an intimacy director in 2017 on Little Voice at Park Theatre followed by Three Sisters (Arrows & Traps Theatre, 2018). In 2019 she was the first Intimacy Director in London's West End credited for Death of A Salesman starring Sharon D. Clarke and Wendell Pierce.
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In January 2021 Yarit became the first Intimacy Director to work with Rambert Dance Company on numerous shows and in 2022 became an Intimacy Consultant for Punchdrunk. ​
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Yarit contributed writing and advised on many UK intimacy guidelines available online for employers as well as performers:
- Directors UK's 'Directing Nudity & Simulated Sex'
- Bectu's Guidance for Shooting Intimacy
- Intimacy chapter in the Creative Industries Safety Passport Course (Bectu & ScreenSkills safety training)
- Stage Directors UK's Intimacy Direction Guidelines
- Equity Intimacy Working Group's guidance for performers and engagers.
- ScreenSkills' Safeguarding Online Module.
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​To support the development of Intimacy Coordination (for screen) in the UK's entertainment industry, in October 2020 Yarit ran the first fully funded mentoring scheme for intimacy coordinators from under-represented groups funded by the Film & TV Charity Fund and supported by ScreenSkills & Moving Body Arts.
