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Originally Posted by llsn12
If upcoming Dance Stage Nudity is off topic please advise; as a newbie I'm not sure.
The Lilian Baylis Studio at Sadlers Wells, London will have a performance of Becky N-amguads 'The Heat' on 22nd & 23rd May. It will then be in Salford on 3rd June. There seems no doubt it will include nudity as 1. there is topless nudity in 1 of the gallery images on the Sadlers website, 2. the contents warning advise of partial nudity, 3. a review of a preview refers to nudity (though it is mentioned as dark, vague & slowly), 4. One of the performers is Bea B-idault who does topless see through nudity (plus a little not see through) in her solo performance previously performed in London. A preview of that can be seen on her website but a full version (with longer nudity than seen live) is or was on Vimeo if that is still accessible.
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I saw this in preview and can confirm it contains nudity. Odd that the content warning specifies partial nudity, because the preview had full nudity from all six dancers for about five minutes right at the end; admittedly it was very darkly lit, but their bodies crawled and walked through sufficient flashes of light to see well enough. And that final sequence was introduced by a long nude solo from the choreographer, her oiled body thrashing around on the floor at the audience’s feet (both on her front and back).
The piece began with brief nudity, too: Caroline R-eece is topless for the opening section, though swathed in huge sheets of plastic, and then another (fully) naked body crawls in on all fours from front right and lies on the sofa, though you only really see her from behind.
For the rest of the piece the dancers are clothed, but the piece and the artistry is excellent - surreal in places (one notable sequence where a dancer’s head becomes detached from her body and rolls down her arm), erotic in others (a long love duet where they appear on the verge of ripping each other’s clothing off, but never quite get there).