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About last night: in company life, crossing the line from dance to romance can create a volatile mix.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-NOV-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: About last night: in company life, crossing the line from dance to romance can create a volatile mix.(SEX & DANCE: a look at manners, mores, and trends)

Article Excerpt
Your eyes lock in a laser-hot gaze. Sparks fly across the room. You give a slight, inviting smile, and nonchalantly turn away to talk to a friend. But you re not out partying at a club or bar. You're in a dance studio, gearing up for rehearsal, and the person you're lusting after is a fellow dancer. While you can't deny how steamy your attraction is, you're secretly harboring the disturbingly realistic thought that hooking up might not be the best idea ever.

But physical attraction can override logic, and hormones often tend to get the best of us. The intimacy brought on by working with each other's bodies day in and day out seems to create a natural path from initial attraction to sexual involvement. But is romantic entanglement with fellow professionals productive-for you, for the work, or for the rest of the group? Read on for the pros and cons of dancing duets--offstage.

Love, treachery, and the threat of murder were part of a real-life scenario for one New York-based dance company in the 1980s. When "Louise," the artistic director, recalls the situation, she says, "It was dreadful."

Louise's company was growing, and they were on the verge of performing at larger, more visible venues. But late...

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