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Originally Posted by Jobin
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 five 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).
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To confirm the completed version at S-adler’s W-ells also has full nudity from all the dancers, despite the “partial” website content warning. I misidentified the long nude solo, which is actually B-onni B-ogya (pictured), showing literally everything if you can follow her rapid naked convulsions closely enough. But choreographer B-ecky N-amgauds does also get naked (and has a glorious light bush). In the post-show discussion she admitted that the poignant collective nudity at the end came out of an improvisation in their very first rehearsal, and she built the rest of the show to lead up to that.
There was some extra nudity since the preview: B-onni now dances the love duet with B-ecky in a *very* low-buttoned cardigan, such that by the end her breasts are hanging out. And the Taiwanese dancer was a last-minute replacement. Otherwise only limited changes: the theatre is bigger so the dancers are somewhat further away, and the naked body at the beginning now emerges from back left. I did forget to mention the ten-minute sequence where all the (clothed) dancers masturbate vigorously using domestic items, humping themselves against everything from sofas to a vacuum cleaner, with a glowing dildo in the foreground just in case you hadn’t caught on… (there is a reason the show is called “The Heat”).
The London performances are sold out but there are apparently still tickets for Salford in June.
Jobin