Print E-mail Letter to the editor. My experience as an audience member has included everything from watching a soloist discussing her fictional love affair with Ann Coulter while dancing in combat boots to a group of students running underneath a tarp screaming at the top of their lungs. In the performance, two women dressed in multiple layers of clothing began by facing each other on stage and repeating the other's words. One of these women was my former teacher.
Why nudity belongs in modern dance
Why nudity belongs in modern dance | The Michigan Daily
Naked or nude, the human body has been a source of creative inspiration in all forms of art, from painting and sculpture to theatre, film, performance art and body art, digital art and live political activism. The public display of the live, bare body with its multiple and complex associations has a powerful impact on our awareness of the self and otherness. Many activists have stripped themselves of clothing to draw attention to the vulnerability and power of the body in the social system we live in. An activist protest occurred in May , in the centre of Athens, Greece. The site of these incidents also brings to mind that nudity has been an integral part in the arts for thousands of years, as an expression of the freedom of humankind. Beyond the boundaries of political activism, an explosion of nakedness has also been present in the performing arts, and particularly in dance.
The Human Body in Contemporary Dance: from Costumes to Nakedness
HOW do you react to the look of a naked body onstage? We were all in our early 20s; most of them were distinctly upper-crust; some qualified as what the English call chinless wonders and Hooray Henrys. Unfortunately, the show underwhelmed. Some of our party, good sports, feigned enthusiasm.
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