Bruno Tonioli
Italian choreographer
Sheer drops, like a precipice.
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What does love feel like?
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How close have you come to death?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What keeps you awake at night?
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What most recently made you cry?
Identity & self
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Heights, and not getting along with people.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 September 2023 source ↗
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Hurtful, hard, like concrete but also the soft, silky, smooth, cool pillow that you lay your head on. It’s like birds singing in the morning with the aurora going over your head at night. That’s love for me.
Being about nine metres away from a polar bear. In northern Canada, a young polar bear was very intrigued by our food. I was flying the drone at the time and the polar bear looked up and started paying attention, so then we flew the drone further away and he followed it while we got into our vehicles.
Not being honest.
Stress, love, people not understanding me, me not understanding people.
My last dance with Jowita, my dance partner. It’s been an emotional rollercoaster; she’s taught me so much about myself and I grew as a result. I’m more confident, more understanding, more respectful, more attuned with myself and others, more mentally strong.
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