We are Dani Brown, Frida Giulia Franceschini, and Cathy Walsh, a Berlin-based team of intimacy coordinators and choreographers, friends and collaborators for over a decade. Each of us brings 20 years of experience in movement, performance, and physical storytelling, and together we founded MINT in 2025 to bring a movement-informed, playful, and ethical approach to intimate scenes.
As queer artists and parents, we understand the power of trust, empathy, and clear boundaries. Our roots in Berlin’s alternative arts scene, combined with international experience, shape a philosophy that blends care, freedom, and daring.
At MINT, we integrate embodied expertise into every project. We support creative teams in approaching intimacy with ease and clarity, adapting seamlessly across stage, screen, and experimental performance — in English, German, and Italian — always honoring the uniqueness of each collaboration.
Pic: Emilia von Senger
One year ago, we had our very first credit as Intimacy Coordinators on the film Protagonist by Nathalie Seidl.
After 12 months of activity we wrapped on our 13th production across film, television, and theatre.
This first year has been a ride: learning, innovating, building safer, more consensual, and sustainable workplaces while collaborating with great teams to make beautiful scenes.
We’re proud that none of our projects required reshoots, and that performers could step into the work with clarity and agency.
Some of our earliest productions are now premiering — and we can’t wait to share more soon. Here’s to another year of growth, empowerment, and captivating storytelling!
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Last week at the Achtung Festival Berlin, we attended the premiere of PROTAGONIST by Nathalie Seidl.
‘A woman on the verge of emotional collapse is replaced by a more efficient version of herself’.
Frida and Dani worked as Intimacy Coordinators on the film.This project marked our first film production and the beginning of our collaboration in this role. 20 months later, together as MINT, we have worked across 13 films, 2 series, and 6 theatre productions.
We are grateful for this beginning, and for the trust placed in us along the way! Thank you to Nathalie and the entire team 🪄
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In October 2025, Frida worked as Intimacy Coordinator on Wink, a performance project by Paulina Pawlowska.
It marked her first intimacy coordination process within a live performance context. As an active dancer and choreographer herself, stepping into this role within performance felt both close and distinct, approaching nudity, exposure, and vulnerability from the perspective of care and consent.
In dance processes, we have found it essential to open clear conversations around boundaries, expectations, and shared language at the beginning of creation. Once that foundation is there, the work can move forward by applying agreed communication tools and consent-based practices throughout rehearsals instead of constantly resetting the frame.
We are grateful to Paulina for the trust and to the entire team for being so open and willing to go there together, bringing questions, and real-time feedback into the process!
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We were so happy when The Berliner approached us for a feature article, and we had a great time talking with the journalist Louise East. Check out the article in this month’s magazine, out now.
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In April and July 2025 Cathy and Dani each worked on different episodes of Die Notärtzin Season 2.
It is now available to watch on ARD Mediathek and has been nominated for the Jupiter Award from Cinema magazine!
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We’re delighted to have had the opportunity to work on this show. So much work happens behind the scenes to bring a show like this to life. We’re delighted and grateful for this experience and the wonderful cast and crew we got to share it with. We learned so much!
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Foto: SWR / Oliver Feist
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INFINITY
Directed by Julie Kelleher
Written by Hannah Moscovitch
Cathy has just been in Cork Arts Theatre working with an incredible team of artists on Infinity, an expertly woven drama about time and love. Infinity is inspired by scientific concepts of time while remaining grounded in the very human predicaments of its beautifully drawn characters.
INFINITY is the first of the Re:Directing programme 2026. A series of contemporary plays platforming three Cork theatre directors, produced by Cork Arts Theatre and funded by The Arts Council.
Cast
Timmy Creed as Elliot
Martha Dunlea as Carmen
Bláithín MacGabhann as Sarah Jean
Creative Team
Directed by Julie Kelleher
Set & Lighting Designer Aedin Cosgrove
Composer and Sound Designer Fiona Sheil
Costume Designer Valentina Gambardella
Movement & Intimacy Director Cathy Walsh
Photos by Marcin Lewandowski
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In August 2025, Cathy worked on a beautiful and intense short film Hitzewelle (AT), directed by Philine Jo Hammon and Patrick Fleischer.
The film explores what happens when the perpetrator of sexual violence is not a stranger, but a friend. It addresses the dilemma between society's obligation to condemn violence and the uncertainty when it affects one's own friendship.
Everyone on this film was an absolute pleasure to work with, from cast and crew, to parents and stunts, it was a beautiful and very moving experience.
Hitzewelle is now finished and will have its premiere on March 14, 2026.
A production by Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
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This past October, Dani and Cathy were incredibly fortunate to receive a grant to attend the FEST FILM LAB Choreography and Movement Direction in Film workshop with the legendary Francesca Jaynes (Gravity, XMen, Muppets, House of the Dragon, the list goes on and on…)
Alongside her brilliant collaborator, Dale Mercer, the generosity was real — not just in technical insight, but in the behind-the-scenes stories, lived experience, and the quiet wisdom of decades spent shaping movement for the screen.
Add to that an inspiring cohort of directors, broadcast directors, dancers, choreographers, ADs, and producers, and the exchange became something rare: expansive, grounding, and deeply Inspiring.
It’s the kind of learning that stays with you.
The kind that reshapes how you see the work.
The kind you wish never had to end.
We didn’t want it to end AND at the same time we are still digesting :)) THANK YOU FRAN, DALE and participants, xxx MINT
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Frida Giulia Franceschini is a performance artist and intimacy coordinator based between Berlin and Bologna. With a background in visual arts, video, and contemporary dance, she trained at Rotterdam Dance Academy and S.E.A.D. Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, later developing her practice between Brussels and Berlin. She completed her intimacy coordination training with SafeSets (UK/SA).
At MINT, Frida approaches intimacy coordination through a somatic, trauma-informed, and consent-based practice. Drawing on her choreographic background and an embodied understanding of power, consent, and trust, she cultivates safer and braver spaces that encourage authentic connection and creative risk-taking. Her IC work centers care, agency, and collaboration, supporting performers and creative teams in shaping intimacy with clarity, integrity, and play.
Pic: Emilia von Senger
