Emotional Safety / Content Safety
Pre-scene agreements and in-scene signals (safe words, door-tap-outs) that let performers exit or redirect content that becomes unsafe.
Known for
- Common practices: content warning cards, signal phrases ('scene'), pre-class boundary circles.
- Imported from applied-improv/therapeutic contexts into performance improv post-2017.
- Some traditionalist schools resist, framing safety protocols as limiting 'truthful' performance — a debate that tracks the generational divide.
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