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Dancers bare all for art as Sydney Festival puts on full-frontal nude show

A nude woman walks by, wearing naught but a nose ring and ponytail. Her breasts bounce as she wanders among the paintings and sculptures within the Art Gallery of NSW on a crisp Thursday morning. She struts in the buff while people stare, conspicuously overdressed in their skinny jeans and sneakers.

Six brave souls are butt-naked for this undressed dress rehearsal of Nude Live, a celebration of the unclothed human body. There are no modesty patches or pouches as they go about in the raw, revealing something of their religion, grooming habits and low body-fat percentage....

In a room titled The private nude, dancer Fiona Jopp, 30, twists and turns her taut skin by a Pierre Bonnard painting of his wife in a bath.

"It was nice when people turned around and saw my face and didn't just look at my tits," she says later, after slipping into a light summer dress.

The thought of being nude in public is worse than actually getting your kit off, she adds. "While I am doing it I don't really feel embarrassed or out of place, there is no sense of being judged. But then I go home and see myself naked in the mirror and go 'My legs are hairy' and 'I have cellulite' and 'Did I pull my stomach in?'"

Recreating The Kiss: Going nude in the name of art

Lucy L: I found the concept really interesting and I’m happy to be involved in anything in the art world. In art school I did a lot of nude photography and film. I’ve got no issues with my own nudity.

Lucy W: I wanted the challenge of being naked. I wanted to try and be more comfortable in my body.

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Full frontal male and female nudity in vid