Avertissement de contenu : endoctrinement politique, interrogatoire
Winston Smith est interrogé par un membre du Parti pour quelque chose qu'il a écrit dans son journal. Dans cette scène, Smith lutte pour différencier sa réalité de celle qui existe dans l'esprit du Parti.
Une femme trébuche, Winston l'aide à se relever. Cette interaction en apparence banale signifie beaucoup plus lorsque l'homme lit les mots sur le morceau de papier plié qui a été placé dans sa main. Des mots qui ont tant de sens, mais qui comportent aussi tant de risques.
Rain and Simone are in the kitchen, prepping dinner. Things are weirdly tense. Suddenly, Rain snaps and accuses Simone of killing his ex-girlfriend, Sally. Of course, Rain doesn’t really have proof of this (other than the time Simone killed a Yorkie for biting her - but they’re an aggressive breed). Simone tries to placate Rain. She’s always bee...
Une soirée d'été. Une écrivaine éprouve un peu de blocage de l'écrivain alors qu'elle est assise dans une terrasse de café dans un quartier historique de la ville. Elle cherche l'inspiration autour d'elle et voit un homme regarder les étoiles avec des jumelles. Les nuages lui bloquent la vue et quand il regarde autour de lui, il croise son regard et sourit. Est-il vraiment là ? Ou est-il juste là...
La nuit, sur un quai au bord d'un lac. Des bougies ont été soigneusement disposées sur le côté du quai pour éclairer un chemin. Adèle se tient au bout d'un quai, tenant une urne qui contient les cendres de son mari. Elle enlève le couvercle de l'urne et se met à répandre les cendres sur l'eau.
The interior of a thumping, vibrating gay nightclub with obligatory disco ball and coloured strobe lights. A middle-aged gentleman is sitting at the bar, back to the audience, lost in his thoughts and seemingly oblivious to his surroundings. The truth is he isn't used to going to clubs, or hasn't since th...
Join George Taylor and the travelling Gilbert & Sullivan theatrical troupe The Vagabonds in a twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of the birth of his papermill. Unbeknownst to him, Jeremiah - the leader of a local small-potatoes bandit group called The Rift Rafters - just discovered a long-hidden secret abo...
Une employée de guichet rêve de monter sur scène. Lorsque le rôle principal de la production se blesse, elle supplie pour avoir sa chance sous les projecteurs.
In a shack surrounded by barren fields, a dying father and his son drink their last bowl of water. They need oil for the machines that will keep them alive and purify their water. A truck rolls past with a huge barrel of oil in the back. The son flags it down, only to discover the person driving the truck is a monstrous c...
La Démocratie gît morte dans un cercueil, pleurée par deux citoyens...
« Elle repose en silence dans un cercueil de glace, les bras liés par un drapeau, les yeux cousus ensemble, la bouche fermée par un fil… »
Mais lentement, la Démocratie relève sa faible tête et supplie les deux citoyens de la maintenir en vie en exécutant une tâche difficile mais nécessaire.
Deux frères taureaux tentent de convaincre l’autre d’entrer dans l’étable. Aucun des deux ne veut y aller, sachant que leur vie est en jeu. Ils se flattent, se défient et se défient l’un l’autre, jusqu’à ce qu’un défi à la course règle finalement le problème : le premier à entrer dans l’étable gagne. En quelque sorte.
Avertissement de contenu : maladie, décès, VIH/SIDA
Dark Star Requiem is a poetic chronicle of the 25 years (as of 2010) of HIV-AIDS, reflecting the many faces of the disease and those affected by the pandemic.
In a schoolyard full of kids, nine-year-old Elijah still feels alone. He’s had a lot of trouble from Big Billy Brett, who takes every opportunity to bully and tease Elijah and his friends. For comfort, Elijah brings his favourite kite to school. One day, they meet a strong new girl called Miriam. Miriam isn’t afraid of Billy and stands up to him...
Avertissement de contenu : génocide, colonialisme, mort, violence armée, mort d'un enfant, violence contre les animaux
« Rien n’est aussi réconfortant que la captivité ».
Beth, a young diplomat, and her husband Andrew are stationed at a Canadian Embassy in Africa. They are troubled by news of political upheaval, forced migrations and indiscriminate slaughter. They ...
Un père surprend son fils au lit avec sa petite amie, Eva. Un combat à trois éclate, le fils professant son amour pour Eva et vice versa, tandis que le père prévient qu'ils vont bientôt se trahir l'un l'autre. Ils quittent, et le père regrette sa perte.
Avertissement de contenu : maladie, mort, colonisation
Facing South is inspired by the life story of American Arctic explorer, Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary, and his contested discovery of the North Pole in 1909. The opera takes place in the inner landscape of Peary’s mind during the last hours of his life in February 1920, as he lies dying of pernic...
Avertissement de contenu : violence sexuelle, incarcération, abus religieux, homophobie, thérapie de conversion
Through several vignettes, Forbidden examines the idea of rules and taboos. Do they protect people, or do they control them? Are they of any value, or do they simply exploit the powerless?
A young girl, punished with repetition of religious tex...
Get Stuffed is a comic opera about serious decisions, featuring vocalizing vegetables and a big helping of other opinionated edible characters, all competing to influence one child's daily diet. Written for 5 singing actors and 2 musicians, this opera is intended for family audiences and touring to schools with a focus on encouraging youth to ma...
Singer-songwriter Josie works on a song in her shared Portland apartment, a girl-at-the-guitar on the cusp of leaving for New York City and a long-anticipated big break. Though her luggage is packed and she’s almost out the door, her boyfriend interjects with objections—he’ll miss her. Josie’s reassurances, dreams of him visiting her on the East...
Avertissement de contenu : langage explicite, violence sexuelle, contenu sexuel, alcool, consommation d'alcool pendant un black-out
Hook Up tells the story of three friends who have made it to university, each with their own unique desires and inner conflicts. Mindy is just excited to keep her high school friend circle together and finally get some privacy with her boyfriend. T...
« Ma vraie voix, c’est mon cri : OUVREZ VOS YEUX. »
The Hydrophis is a Deep Sea Submergence Vehicle (DSV) that takes scientists on extreme-depth expeditions to research and explore. During a recent expedition, a rare jellyfish, Stygiomedus Gigantea, has been captured on film. It is rarely seen but thought to be one of the largest invertebrate predator...
George and Martha have three very different versions of a difficult conversation over breakfast. The first two represent what happens in George’s mind when his wife insults him over breakfast. One is violent and reactionary, with George screaming and verbally abusing Martha. The other is more considered, as Georg...
À 4 heures du matin, un compositeur est debout devant la fenêtre, ses outils à proximité. À l'autre bout de la ville, un librettiste fait de même. Tous deux sont un peu paniqués par leur dernière œuvre : un opéra au sujet d'un chien nommé Harley. L'œuvre est une méditation sur le doute personnel, la suspicion entre collègues et l'inspiration soudaine qui peuvent tenir les artistes éveillés jusqu'aux petites heures.
Avertissement de contenu : racisme, colonialisme, violence, mort
En Chine dans les années 1880, Lai Gwan, une jeune femme appauvrie, est à l'aube d'un énorme changement. Sa mère mourante la presse de respecter et d'honorer la mémoire de son père, Manli, dont la disparition au Nouveau Monde les hante tous les deux.
Armed with the hope that she will find her father aliv...
Simone lutte contre une dépression post-partum non diagnostiquée et est en train de perdre. Elle décide de partir, de faire ses valises, et son mari Marc essaie de lui demander des explications. Alors que leur fils dort dans la chambre voisine, elle part, et Marc n'essaie pas de l'arrêter.
Un jeune enfant se réveille seul sur la plage. Il cherche sa mère. Le bruit des vagues étouffe les voix des gens qui s’inquiètent des nouveaux arrivants et de l’effet qu’ils auront sur leur société. D’autres voix prennent le relais : d’autres enfants disent que sa place est avec eux maintenant.
Avertissement de contenu : mort, meurtre, suicide, xénophobie
Jason, an army captain and now war-hero, is returning home after years of war and an uncertain future. His interpreter and lover M’dea and their son Chase accompany him to a new life in the West. Jason begins a political career, working alongside the President and Dahlia, the President’s bea...
Piégé par une avalanche et enseveli de neige, un homme ne pense qu'à sa femme et à trouver une issue. Pendant ce temps, la femme est remplie de suspicion. Elle pense qu'il poursuit une relation amoureuse et que son silence en est la preuve. Entre les deux, la Mort chante les façons dont elle provoque le désastre.
Juste avant d’atteindre le sommet du Mont Everest, sur la crête sud du sommet, Jackie et son partenaire Pasang célèbrent le fait qu’elle est la première femme à atteindre le sommet sans oxygène. Puis quelque chose change. Serait-ce Mère Everest qui punit les alpinistes ?
"Détestez vos stupides boucles d'oreilles, détestez vos chaussures laides." Stéphanie se prépare à sortir avec un rendez-vous, mais elle commence à s'effondrer lorsqu'elle se regarde dans le miroir. Les voix qu’elle entend dans sa tête sont des variations de sa propre voix critique. Elle se voit comme elle imagine que son rendez-vous la verra. Rien ne va – tout va mal. C'est un...
Avertissement de contenu : meurtre, violence, maladie mentale
The story begins with a distressed Paul being interviewed about his missing parents. It switches to two weeks earlier with Harold and Julia in the airport after sending him off. Julia worries that something is wrong with their son. Harold is sure that he'll be back to his old self after the tr...
A ‘Hitchcock-style thriller’ for baritone and soprano, Nigredo Hotel is “the story of a neurosurgeon, a man of science, who has lost his soul. One night he thinks he has hit a child on the road and hides out in a decrepit, Hitchcockian motel run by a monstrous concierge called Sophie. The terrifying crone — his anima — locks him into his room an...
Noor Over Afghan is set in Afghanistan, and tells the story of two young Afghani sisters, Noor and Jaan. But Jaan is dying, and begs Noor to take her place in the marriage and have her child. By the time the groom finds out, Jaan will have died. They swap places, Noor disguised by the veil.
Avertissement de contenu : captivité, traite des personnes, travail du sexe, violence sexuelle, violence, mort
The Enslavement and Liberation of Oksana G. is a fictional dramatic opera built on extensive factual research. Set in Ukraine in 1997, it is the story of Oksana, a young woman lured into the world of sex trafficking by a Russian recruiter, Konstantin, who ...
In a country torn by war, a woman works as a bell-ringer. There used to be many more in the tower, but one by one the bells were taken: metal for the war-machine. A man climbs the tower after hearing her play the one remaining bell. What seems at first a meeting of two lovers turns dark as the man tries to claim the bell. They need the metal for...
Le compositeur Gareth Williams et le librettiste David James Brock ont créé un opéra-promenade in situ inspiré du plus ancien pub de Glasgow, Sloans. Le public se déplace dans ce pub vieux de 250 ans et découvre une série de scènes racontant des histoires d’amour, de perte, de vengeance et de pardon.
La pièce s'ouvre au milieu d'une bataille pour la garde inversée, chaque partie exigeant que l'autre prenne son fils, Simon. Carla pense que son fils grandira de manière dysfonctionnelle sans père, et Peter prétend qu'il ne fera que pleurer pour elle. Entrecoupées de leurs combats, il y a des instructions occasionnelles à Simon, indiquant qu'il est dans la pièce, un témoin...
Rocking Horse Winner primarily explores the relationship between Paul, a young adult, and his emotionally distant mother, Ava.
Paul is driven to bridge the relationship with his mother, but Ava sees Paul’s attempts to engage as fussy and considers motherhood an obligation. She remains distant, trapped in a m...
An opera for all ages. Sydney, an Asian elephant poached at a young age from the jungles of Indonesia, recalls her remarkable life in captivity, far from home, as her keeper of 22 years leads her on a journey towards sanctuary in the hills of Tennessee. A dynamic weaving of opera and dance unearths friendships lost and found and restores a stole...
Avertissement de contenu: violence coloniale, colonialisme, mort, maladie
1828, baie Notre Dame, sur la côte nord-est de Terre-Neuve. William Cormack, explorateur et anthropologue, a récemment créé le Beothuk Institute : un organisme destiné à prévenir l'extinction des premiers habitants de l'île. Après avoir appris qu'un Béothuk...
Janna and her grandpa are in Toronto’s distillery district. Before she has to leave, Janna asks him to tell the story of how he and Grandma met. Both were fighting a fire, and met as part of the bucket brigade. Janna proudly reminds him he saved everyone that night, but this isn’t true. Grandpa confesses that a wo...
Une famille nucléaire à la dérive dans l’ère atomique. Depuis que Prométhée a volé le feu aux dieux, l’humanité joue avec la dangereuse beauté de la science. Dans cette fable caricaturée, un père protège sa famille à tout prix.
Thomas and Claire fall madly in love at a fundraising party. Thomas has decided to “find a wife, get a life,” whi...
Une sœur et un frère fouillent dans les affaires de leur mère récemment décédée et trouvent une vieille boule à neige de leur jeunesse. Tous deux veulent absolument la garder. Une dispute amère s’ensuit et la sœur laisse échapper par inadvertance un secret très douloureux.
Avertissement de contenu : violence armée, mort, fusillade de masse
Dans la Salle bleue de l'Assemblée nationale du Québec, Denis Lortie tue et blesse des personnes avec une mitraillette pour protester contre la souveraineté du Québec.
Un fermier prend affectueusement soin de sa vache brune, sans savoir que lui et la vache se sont déjà rencontrés dans des vies antérieures, une fois au XVIIIe siècle et une autre fois au XXe.
Avertissement de contenu : mort, meurtre, violence
This opera explores the interior realm of a woman’s response to a crisis. The Laurels plays with audience assumptions and expectations; it is well into the piece before we realize the stranger is not the person he appears to be. While it is important that Laurel’s understanding of the Stranger is consi...
As the waves crash against the shore, two religious brothers go for a walk. The conversation is dominated by the older brother, and heavy with implication. The younger one announces his wish to leave the order, and is asked if his father’s death has something to do with this decision. The younger brother is furious; he could have spoken to his f...
Avertissement de contenu : maladie mentale, consommation d'alcool, incarcération pour cause de maladie mentale
Est-ce les vêtements qui font un homme, ou est-ce autre chose ?
Based on the satirical Nikolai Gogol story of the same name, The Overcoat centres on Akakiy Akakiyevich, a diligent man no one likes, who works the numbers best he can. But he can barely pay th...
Deux marionnettes chaussettes aspirent à quelque chose de plus que leur vie morne. Elles se croisent dans la rue, et il ne leur faut pas longtemps pour reconnaître qu'elles correspondent parfaitement l'une à l'autre !
Nominé pour le prix Dora Mavor Moore 2009 de la meilleure nouvelle comédie musicale ou opéra, cette tragi-comédie de 40 minutes sur l’intégrité créative, l’autonomie et l’ajustement est un conte allégorique qui démonte les ironies du capitalisme ; une parodie des relations transfrontalières ; un récit romantique.
Due to the all-powerful Ford selecting the American Phillips screw for...
Basé sur le témoignage de la peintre du 17ème siècle Artemisia Gentileschi sur l'instructeur qui l'a violée, Agostino Tassi. On nous donne un aperçu du viol, de la confusion et de l'oppression des femmes.
A boy is sitting through the longest sermon ever on the most boring subject ever: purity. He didn’t sleep well the night before, and so convinces himself that he can close his eyes during the sermon without much trouble. But it doesn’t take long for the priest’s longwinded comparison of venial sins to tablecloth stations to blur and distort as t...
Barcelona, 1900. Against the backdrop of Gaudi’s surrealist Parc Guell, Raoul, a humble postman, falls for the beautiful Allegra, whose father is a wealthy aristocrat on his mail route. To impress Allegra, Raoul disguises himself as Hernando, a “wealthy suitor,” and borrows money from the local mafia to impress the girl. Raoul goes deeply into d...
Avertissement de contenu : harcèlement sexuel, violence, incendie
Une terre du nord, la fin de l'hiver. Une avant-aube froide et sombre au bord d’une montagne ; à travers la vallée rugit une puissante cascade. Dans cette vallée, il y a deux fermes, une pauvre - appartenant à Runa, une femme célibataire - et une riche, appartenant à Olaf, qui souhaite que Runa soit son épouse.
Une méditation sur la discrimination et le dégoût dont les athlètes intersexués font l'objet dans l'esprit de leurs pairs. Une femme gagne une médaille d'or, mais ses efforts pour y parvenir ne signifient rien pour l'organisation et les autres athlètes. Elle est disqualifiée et honteuse.
Chloe et Eddie sont au lit lorsqu'ils sont interrompus par Matt, l'ex-mari de Chloe, un athlète. Matt demande où se trouve leur fille Ava, et reproche à Chloe d'avoir abandonné Ava pour un homme anonyme.
Avertissement de contenu : descriptions d'esclavage, de violence, de violence sexuelle, de mort
A father will do anything to save his daughter. Of the Sea follows the story of Maduka, his daughter Binyelum, and fellow Africans thrown overboard during the Middle Passage who now populate mythical underwater kingdoms that span the ocean floor. Amidst the waves, ...
La société technologique fictive RUR, fondée par le couple Helena et Dom, domine le marché des logiciels d'IA et alimente les androïdes désormais omniprésents au service de leurs propriétaires humains.
As Dom becomes more focused on growing R.U.R’s profits, Helena’s creative research leads to an unexpected technological breakthrough that pits the couples’ visions square...
Une jeune musicienne au talent extraordinaire aspire à la perfection dans son art. Son chemin vers la grandeur ? Un mur magnifique.
Bursting with the compulsion to reach the top, she invokes Canadian icon, classical pianist Glenn Gould to guide her towards dizzying heights – but the path isn’t easy. Each brick represents her art, her rigour, and her...
Dragon’s Tale is the story of a young Chinese-Canadian woman (Xiao Lian) and her ailing father, both living in Toronto. Xiao Lian wakes up in the ancient past and witnesses the last days of one of China’s greatest poets, Qu Yuan. In doing so, she begins to understand her father and herself as she returns to a c...
Avertissement de contenu : mention de meurtre, de violence, de poison
Four Victorian women sit down for a most unusual tea time. The women have two things in common: their dislike of the other women and of their husbands. Each woman refuses to drink tea for one reason or another while brainstorming ideas such as poison, prison, bee-stings or drowning. But who...
A worker ruminates on the terrifying power of flight as he loads bags. Three passengers board and discover they’re sitting beside each other. During the pre-departure safety demonstration, a flight attendant longs for an escape from her mundane life and job. The three passengers think of their own isolation and longing and fear. The flight ...
Avertissement de contenu : mort, infanticide, meurtre
A rumble of hooves. A family is fleeing, but the baby is slowing them down. The mother is forced to choose between her husband and her child. She chooses the husband and tries to get the baby to sleep before letting it go over a waterfall. At the last minute, the baby awakes, and the mother’s grief ...
On a fateful school trip to the ruins of Pompeii, the fantasies of smitten teenagers Suzie and Cass are ignited. They are transported from 1977 to 79 AD, where they discover romantic freedom in the looming shadow of Mount Vesuvius – but not for long. The timeline shifts to 1981 and the Fly by Night, a Toronto lesbian bar, in the aftermath of the...
"Drawn from an Irish saga of the Red Branch Knights of Ulster in the druidic era, the story tells of the doom of the ruthless Conochar, King of Ullah (Ulster), and the tragic death of Naisi and his brothers, the Princes of Ullah, as a result of the rivalry between Conochar and Naisi for the love of the foundling Deirdre."
A father and son argue in a dark alley. The father, sick with a tumour "the size of a fig" in his brain, begs his son to end his life. When the gun they're using fails and the son panics, the father offers comfort and encouragement in the form of a ...
A young mother with her infant daughter is threatened by an armed military officer escorting prisoners. She wants to wait for her husband, but the officer tells her he is probably already dead. The woman sings a lament to her baby, then pleads with the officer to take her baby and raise her as his own.
An ambitious politician gleefully shares with his mistress the news that his party may soon be back in power. The mistress shares her own news: she is pregnant.
Mark stands with his friends Maryanne and Bob, ready to play a game of baseball. They see their other friend, Kenny, and Carley, Mark's ex-girlfriend, in the distance. Kenny proposes to Carley, and runs to the group to announce triumphantly "She said yes!" Inspired by Maryanne's encouragement, Mark calls his estranged son, who lives far away wit...
"Bentley’s libretto is based on Frank O’Connor’s translation of the celebrated 1780 Gaelic poem by Brian Merriman (1749-1805), a work surprisingly contemporary in its frank discussion of women’s sexual needs and how men fail to meet them. In Bentley’s adaptation Merriman himself becomes the opera’s central figure who falls asleep on a midsummer...
A collection of dramatic musical settings of poetry by twelve different Canadian writers. The poems range from serious to humorous, and touch on subjects including the beauty of nature, to ecology and urban animals, to language and poetry itself.
Content warning: ableism, institutionalization, medical abuse, mental illness, sanism, sexual violence
10 Days in a Madhouse is a psychological opera that plays with notions of madness, inspired by the life of Nellie Bly, a trailblazing reporter who in 1887 faked madness in order to be admitted to Blackwell’s Asylum for the Insane and report ...
I Have No Stories to Tell You mines the aftereffects of war through the story of a soldier’s return home from an extended assignment on the battlefield. Written as a companion piece to Monteverdi’s Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, the opera explores war as a catalyst for changed identity through th...
Content warning: child neglect, death, migration, strong language, trauma, war
When Sophia’s mother dies, Sophia confronts half-forgotten traumas from her childhood. Sophia and her sister Emma grew up in a war torn country. The two young girls cope with and escape their grim circumstances – the adult world of war, death and displacement – thr...
We open on an Alzheimer’s hallucination. Martha, a woman in her seventies, sees a surreal and exaggerated world in which strangers torment her and weather invades her kitchen. Martha remains in the grips of her hallucination until the presence of Martha’s daughter, Winnie, rips her out of it. Suddenly, shockingly, Martha is back in the Alzheimer...
A multicultural retelling of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.
"The jealous king Leontes’ wife, Hermione, is accused of committing adultery with his best friend, Polixenes, and Hermione is jailed. Soon after, Leontes and Hermione’s young son dies before she gives birth to a daughter Perdita who is smuggled out of the country after Hermione’s s...
Unwilling to marry a woman, a man fashions a lover from his own left side. He’s enraptured by her perfect beauty – a mirror of his own – until he discovers that this new woman longs for freedom and wildly desires another.
“Made in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Italy, China, India…the U.S.A.” Who sews our clothes, who makes our shoes? Where do they live? How much are they paid? What would you dream of, sewing sleeves all day? Is life better in the village you left behind? Sweat is a kaleidoscope of characters and stories collected from factories around the world. Plunging...
The opera is a poetic love story following resistance against a fictional state that oppresses lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. It centres on the rebellious Solana and her beloved Lilah, who is now a wife and mother; together, they fight for a new future, even as their secret romance is threatened by Lilah’s unpredictable h...
A not-so-pure Maiden is sent to marry a not-so-manly Lord, who is advised by a not-so-celibate Priest, and protected by a not-so-insensitive Thug in an England ruled by a King who won’t get out of bed. Based on the award winning play by Moira Buffini.
Naomi’s Road, which details a young Japanese-Canadian girl’s experiences as her family is interned during World War II, is a coming-of-age story that celebrates the power of hope, cultural understanding and compassion. This compelling and emotional story is taken from one of our country’s most painful and complex social periods, a time that for ...
Consisting of 18 scenes, the opera covers 16 years in the life of Manitoba school teacher and Métis hero Louis Riel, from the Red River Rebellion (1869–70) to the North-West Rebellion (1884–85), and his trial and hanging in Regina in 1885. It also dramatizes the political scheming in Ottawa that resulted from Riel’s actions, as well as several ...
Winston Smith est interrogé par un membre du Parti pour quelque chose qu'il a écrit dans son journal. Dans cette scène, Smith lutte pour différencier sa réalité de celle qui existe dans l'esprit du Parti.
Une femme trébuche, Winston l'aide à se relever. Cette interaction en apparence banale signifie beaucoup plus lorsque l'homme lit les mots sur le morceau de papier plié qui a été placé dans sa main. Des mots qui ont tant de sens, mais qui comportent aussi tant de risques.
Une confrontation nocturne entre une mère et son fils. Le fils l'accuse d'avoir eu une liaison avec son oncle et d'avoir tué son père. Il a trouvé un médecin à Chinatown qui pourra prouver que son père a été empoisonné. La mère prétend qu'elle l'a fait pour mettre fin à sa douleur.
The interior of a thumping, vibrating gay nightclub. A middle-aged gentleman sips his drink and turns to watch the dancers on the dance floor. Under the disco ball a young man, stripped to the waist, is dancing with abandon. The young man approaches and establishes immediate physical contact, which is uncomfortable. The older man needs more pers...