This article examines how consent is negotiated, handled, and understood within everyday rehearsal work in the Swedish performing arts. Drawing on ninety hours of video‑recorded rehearsals, three interactions involving intimacy, sexuality, and violence are analyzed to identify how practitioners navigate when consent is ambiguous, assumed, or contested. Using a multimodal discourse analytical approach, we show how consent operates as a situated knowledge practice shaped by ideas of artistic freedom, embodied interactions, and organizational power relations. Three distinct strategies—irony and laughter, exploratory questioning, and affirmation—define how actors and directors mobilize cultural resources to manage uncertainty, regulate conduct, and sustain professional norms. The findings highlight the paradoxical interplay between autonomy and control in creative work, demonstrating how consent functions as a mechanism of ethical self‑governance and subject formation. We argue that understanding consent as a technology of subject formation and as a relational and discursive practice offers important insights into organizational life of the performing arts, challenging technocratic approaches to risk management in favor of dialogical and reflective forms of workplace ethics.