About

YARIT DOR

MEET YARIT
Shaping Movement, Fights, Intimacy & Physical Storytelling

Fight Director & BASSC Certified Stage Combat Teacher

Movement Director & Coach

IDC Certified Intimacy Coordinator

IDC Certified Intimacy Director

SAG-AFTRA Registered Intimacy Coordinator

BECTU Level 2 Registered Intimacy Coordinator

Yarit (nickname 'Yar') is an established and multi-faceted movement creative. Since 2007, she has worked professionally across stage and screen.

Yarit is an interdisciplinary movement artist working as a Fight Director, Movement Director, Intimacy Director, and Intimacy Coordinator across stage and screen. Her practice intertwines these disciplines together to create integrated physical storytelling,
She is Co-Director of Moving Body Arts and Moving Body Studio, where she teaches workshops and leads professional training programmes. Yarit is an Associate Artist of The Shakespeare’s Globe and Director’s Cut Theatre Company, and an Associate Teacher at RADA.

Yarit is an Associate Artist of Shakespeare’s Globe and The Director’s Cut Theatre, as well as an Associate Teacher at RADA. In 2021, she was nominated for the FOCUS Shaker of the Year Award, and in 2023, she was honoured as a Fellow of Rose Bruford College for her outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry. Yarit is a BAFTA CONNECT member.

Playwright Cordelia Lynn, 'Love & Other Acts of Violence' at The Donmar Warehouse, 2021, Arts Desk Article

"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."

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TRAINING
Grounded in Depth of Training and Professional Standards

Fight Direction, Stage Combat & Martial Arts

Fight Direction Workshops & Intensives
BASSC Certified Stage Combat Teacher
Theatrical Firearms Safety Course (Barearms)
IDF Army Training (2 Years)
Bronze Medal Karate (North Isreal Championship 1999)
International Workshops: Stage Combat World Conference (Canada), Winter Wonderland (USA), Paddy Crean Stage Combat Workshop (Canada), Tourist Trap (USA)
Advanced Actor Combatant Intensive, Mace Workshop, 2014 (Chicago)
Additional martial arts training:
- Historical European Martial Arts
- Capoeira
- Escrima (Kali)
- Tai Chi
Additional Workshops/CPDs with renowned Fight Directors: Richard Ryan (UK), Steve Boushey (USA), Alan J Suddeth (USA), K Jenny Jones (USA), Michael Chin (USA), Tod Campbell (CA), Scottie Witt (AUS), Oula Kitti (Finland), Hilde Ostensson (Sweden).

Required Foundational Training to Fight Direction Work:

Adult & Youth Mental Health First Aider
Trauma First Aid
Trauma Sensitive Yoga Foundation Course (20 Hour)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Training
Disability Awareness For Managers & Working With Disabled Talent
LGBTQIA+ Awareness Training
Transgender Ally/Advocate Training
Supporting Trans Actors & Creatives Training
Unconscious Bias Training
Bullying, Harassment & Sexual Harassment Training For Managers
Bystander Intervention In The Workplace
Conflict Resolution Training

Emergency First Aid In The Office & Studio
Creative Industries Safety Passport
Safeguarding Level 2
Adult & Youth Mental Health First Aider
Trauma First Aid

Intimacy Direction (for stage)
Intimacy Coordination (for screen)

IDC Certified Intimacy Coordinator (both SAG-AFTRA and BECTU Registered)
IDC Certified Intimacy Director
IDC Consent Forward Artist Certificate
Additional Online CPDs/Workshops with TIE (Theatrical Intimacy Education), NSIP (National Society of Intimacy Professionals, IPA (Intimacy Professionals Association).

Required Foundational Training to Intimacy Work:

Adult & Youth Mental Health First Aider
Trauma First Aid
Trauma Sensitive Yoga Foundation Course (20 Hour)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Training
HETV access, approaches and actions training
Deaf Awareness Training with SignPost Productions
Disability Awareness For Managers & Working With Disabled Talent

LGBTQIA+ Awareness Training
Transgender Ally/Advocate Training
Supporting Trans Actors & Creatives Training
Unconscious Bias Training
Bullying, Harassment & Sexual Harassment Training For Managers
Bystander Intervention In The Workplace
Conflict Resolution Training
HETV Leading & Managing Teams Training
Emergency First Aid In The Office & Studio
Creative Industries Safety Passport
Safeguarding Level 2

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 intensives taught by Philippe Gaulier
Clown training taught by John Wright
Gecko Theatre week long intensive
Frantic Assembly week long intensive
Viewpoints Summer Intensive at Rose Bruford

Historical Dance:
- Bursary recipient for the Historical Dance Society Intensive 2025 (Tudor and Renaissance Dance).
- Additional historical dance training with: Darren Royston, Anne Daye, Sue Lefton, Jane Gibson, Quadrille Club.
Movement Workshops/CPDs with
- Complicite
- Told By An Idiot
- Blind Summit (Puppetry)
- Puppetry at Little Angel Theatre
- Movement For Actors ('Time & Space') with Glynn MacDonald
- Laban For Actors ('Condensed, Imagined & Real') with Vanessa Ewan
- Physical Theatre for Dancers with Struan Leslie
- Suzuki 3 day workshop at Regent's Park University Campus
- Tanztheater weekend workshop Rainer Behr of Tanztheater Wuppertal

Bodywork & Wellbeing

Certified Classical Pilates Teacher - Bridging Programme at Pilates Nation London UK - 900 hours of training, mat and full studio equipment.
Certified Classical Pilates Teacher - Certification Programme at Dror Raz Pilates - 340 hours, mat and studio equipment.
The full Classical Syllabus taught by MeJo Wiggins - 44 hours
CPD workshops with Classical Pilates Master Practitioners/Specialists: Kathryn Ross-Nash, Blossom Leilani-Crawford, Bob Liekens, Alycea Ungaro, Moses Urbano, Shari Berkowitz, Andrea Maida, Lolita San Miguel, Marjorie Oren, Holly Murray.
Garuda Mat Certification: Lying, Seated and Standing
Garuda Equipment Certification: Foundation & Level 1

Somatics & Trauma Sensitive Training:

Certified in Trauma Sensitive Yoga Foundation
Certified in Trauma First Aid taught by Peter Levine (founder of Somatic Experiencing).
CPD: Trauma Awareness Through Movement taught by Ashley MacDonald.
Currently studying Yoga & Somatics for Healing and Recovery with Charlotte Watts.
Reforesting The Body - Dance & Ecosomatics at Acosta Dance

Pilates & Rehabilitation subjects:

Certified in Pre and Post Natal Pilates from the Center For Women’s Fitness by Caroline Anthony, 22 hours course.
3 Day Anatomy Trains For Movement Practitioners taught by James Earl
Pilates On Tour Workshops with Balanced Body Trainers:
- Facsia In Motion In The Pilates Environment with Elizabeth Larkham
- Pilates for Shoulder Injuries with Karen Clippinger
- Pilates For Athletes with Chrissy Romani-Ruby
CPD Full Day Workshops:
- Introduction to Franklin Method with Polstar Pilates
- Mat Pilates with the Foam Roller
- Mat Pilates on the Ball
- Mat Pilates with Magic Circle
- Reformer on the Mat
- Reformer Pilates with Magic Circle
- Pilates For Seniors
- Pilates For Osteoporosis

AIMING FOR LASTING CHANGE
Contribution To The Entertainment Industry

Awards

- In 2021, Yarit was nominated for the Shaker of the Year Award in recognition of her impact on the screen industry, having secured funding to design and deliver a fully funded mentoring programme for intimacy coordinators from underrepresented groups, thereby helping to diversify the community of intimacy professionals in the UK at that time.

- 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's entertainment industry.

Amongst the first to establish intimacy practice in professional productions

Yarit started working professionally as an intimacy director in 2018 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 (same year the role was first credited on Broadway).

In January 2021 Yarit became the first Intimacy Director to work with Rambert Dance Company on numerous dance shows and in 2022 became an Intimacy Consultant for Punchdrunk's Burnt City.

Consultancy, writing guidelines for unions and associations and promoting safer practices

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.

- Shakespeare's Globe Higher Education Guidance for Fights & Intimacy.

In August 2020 she helped to establish Bectu Union's Intimacy Coordinators Branch and was elected to chair its first committee. Under her leadership & determination the committee created its first working groups, published a rate card & terms, published Bectu's Guidance for Shooting Intimacy and created the first infrastructure for the Intimacy Coordinators Registry.

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.

In 2025 she helped to establish the Equity Intimacy Directors Network and currently sits on their organising/steering group.

Expanding diversity in the intimacy professional community while reducing financial barriers to training

- To support the development of Intimacy Coordination (for screen) in the UK's entertainment industry, in October 2020 Yarit created and taught 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.

- In 2023, Yarit's company secured funding from ScreenSkills to fully support two Wales-based practitioners in gaining certification and professional training as intimacy coordinators, contributing to the development of the Welsh speaking screen industry.

- In 2019 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. It revolutionised the garments used on set and on stage during intimacy scenes and expanded the range of skin tones and sizes available in the market to help diversity and inclusion.

Read Yarit's article on modesty garments in the Journal of Consent-Based Performance.