# Dance

As the characters searched for elusive connection, we watched as they tumbled and fumbled their way into each other's arms, then flew apart, only to reconnect in a jumbled mess of love, desire, hate, and lust.

I sat there in my seat in the centre of the house, shaking – trying not to laugh – as the solo drag dance show evolved into a long, drawn-out anal fisting session between two men right in front of my eyes.

From wheelchair aerial dance to a tragicomedy about heartbreak, both pieces asked us of our shared humanity.

Imagine 40+ people decked out in their birthday suits, down to the a** cracks, all covered in slime. Then imagine them all slipping and sliding over each other... That's exactly what we did in choreographer Doris Uhlich's "Gootopians" at ImPulsTanz International Dance Festival in Vienna, Austria.

Everything you need to know about the program, funding, accommodation, and more — from a dancer.

This cheap photoshoot was the best hack I found to gift myself a dance photoshoot in Barcelona's Old Town without the hassle and pomp.

The dancers invited onto the Gala stage are world-class athletes. They represent not only their personal blood, sweat, and tears to have made it this far but also national pride in disseminating thousands of years of traditional Chinese dance.

In Shanghai, Sleep No More is taken as more of a date night offering. At least half of the audience members are couples, or, at the very least, girls on a night out. There aren't too many singles like me, unlike in New York where there were many solo-goers.

Along with the acting chops also came a greater sense of risk – one you don't often find with a large, established company.

For every assumption that we're polite on the outside, someone somewhere is creating dance that will shock your brainwaves.

There's an important aspect to receiving and/or offering first aid that many people forget about that can contribute to the outcome, especially for dancers.

As a seasonal team member of Fall for Dance North in Toronto, I have the distinct privilege of having seen FFDN grow from its early days to what it is now – a multicultural, international dance festival that strives to put its city at its core.

A tyrant. Secret lovers. A haunted hotel ... With the egg in my right hand, he slowly brought my arm up, fingers interlacing with mine in a lover's lock.

NYC’s Broadway culture can only be described as “dazzling” (for not always the right reasons)... Here are my reviews of the seven shows I watched, from least to most favourable.

Everything you need to know about the program, funding, accommodation, and more — from a dancer.