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First-of-its-kind Intimacy Practice degree cancelled

The Mountview MFA programme, led by trailblazer Ita O’Brien, was due to start this September but has been cancelled due to ‘logistical challenges’.
Ita O’Brien worked as an intimacy coordinator on 'Normal People', 2020
Ita O’Brien worked as an intimacy coordinator on 'Normal People', 2020 - Courtesy Hulu

In a widely publicised announcement earlier this year, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts launched the world’s first university-validated degree in Intimacy Practice, run by industry leader Ita O’Brien. Just two months before the course was due to begin, the MFA programme has been cancelled. 

With a programme covering intimacy choreography and how to make sets safer for performers, the course was designed in partnership with O’Brien’s company Intimacy on Set – but has since been cancelled prior to accepting its first intake of students. Prospective students were informed of the cancellation just days before a planned recall workshop in London. 

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