When you spend months working closely with people on an artistic endeavor, you and your colleagues build a special bond. This bond is not necessarily based on sitting down and having soul-baring, deep conversations. It is a relationship that slowly unfolds while you expose yourself through your work. That is how you get to know each other. Then you bond through ribald jokes over beers. This bond grows while you geek out over nuances in your art form, while you watch each other rehearse, one watcher stroking another’s hair absentmindedly. It is very comfortable, it is open, it is vulnerable, it is inappropriate, it is highly entertaining. You can grab this person’s breast or ass and it isn’t weird. You sometimes speak to each other in strange, gibberish noises. You have inside jokes. Personal space is irrelevant. What you have with these people is a wonderful and different breed of love.
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AuthorMaayan is a Manhattan-based opera singer. Archives
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