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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Carl[/i] [br][url="http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2515601.0.0.php"][b]The Sunday Herald.[/b][/url] [font=Arial][b][size=3]Mass stripalong ... 150 women take off their clothes for art[/size=3][/b] Trilogy director appeals for female volunteers to appear naked on stage By Edd McCracken, Arts Correspondent [b]EDINBURGH'S NEW[/b] Town, a byword for all things straight-laced, middle-class and reserved, is due to host a show that literally aims to give the area's cosseted image a dressing down by asking 150 women of all shapes and sizes to strip naked. Trilogy, a play at St Stephen's Church during the Fringe Festival, is looking for volunteers to dance nude to [u][b]songs by rock band, the Pixies[/u][/b], for its month-long run. It is actively seeking participants from the surrounding area to join in a "celebration of the female body". Written and directed by Nic Green, the play is part of the Glasgow venue, the Arches' residency at the church during August. "It is a high-energy, naked dance ensemble celebrating the differences and diversities of our physicality," said the 26 year old. "It is really wild, fun, and exciting. The locals in the New Town absolutely need to get involved. What's great is, you'll have a middle aged, white, mother of three, next to a 16 year old working class girl from the other side of town. And they are just as valid. Everyone's voice matters in this world we create." Green developed Trilogy after winning the Arches' New Directors Award last year. As befits its name, the show is split into three parts. The naked dancers form the opening. Green plans to work with the volunteers for a week leading up to the performances. The second part is a drama about Town Bloody Hall, the famous DA Pennebaker documentary about an infamously ill- tempered 1971 feminist discussion panel featuring Germaine Greer and chaired by Norman Mailer. The final part is a presentation by Green on her Herstory (as opposed to History) project, an online forum encouraging women to recognise the female input into society. Trilogy finishes with Green singing William Blake's Jerusalem naked, then encouraging the women in the audience to follow suit. The performance debuted two weeks ago with a single show at the Battersea Arts Centre in London. It featured women who had never taken off their clothes in public before or been involved in performance art before. "People came for different reasons," said Green. "Some had suffered from eating disorders all their lives. Or we get people who have an inkling that something is not quite right. And we get people who just like dancing. We want to access every community we can think of." Jackie Wylie, director of the Arches, said it was "one of the bravest things I've ever seen". She added: "It was incredibly moving. Something happens. In our society, women don't get a chance to express how they feel about their own bodies. They are bombarded with images of an ideal version of what they should be sometimes. "So when they come together there is an energy that feeds of themselves. The women were quite high off the experience." Both Green and Wylie have spoken to Church of Scotland officials about the appropriateness of the show in a church building. The only condition the Kirk had was that there was to be no blasphemy. "They were happy with it," said Green. "They think the body is a beautiful creation, and we're celebrating it, so they were fine with it." The Arches will stage two other shows at St Stephens during the Fringe: Adrian Howells' Foot Washing For The Soul and Dudendance Theatre's Spaceman. The Arches was able to take over the venue and stage the shows thanks to money from the Scottish Government's new Made in Scotland showcasing fund. Naomi Hughes took part in the trial performance of Trilogy in London. The performing arts student was one of the 30 women who volunteered to dance naked. "It was brilliant and so important for me," said the 29-year-old. "We were trying to do so much from this small gesture with our bodies. There are so many cliches that could be applied to naked women on stage'. It wasn't about being looked at in a sexual way. It was about us being in control." She was inspired to take part having seen Green performing just the third part of Trilogy. Instead of stripping and dancing, Hughes shrunk back into her chair, something she regretted. "I would absolutely encourage anybody to get involved," she added. "We had women of different ages, sizes who all challenged themselves, went through with it, and came out with something to tell our grand-daughters. It was such a beautiful process. It isn't negative or angry. It is positivity." If you wish to participate in Trilogy, e-mail erin@thearches.co.uk or call her on 0141 565 1011 for more details. Those taking part would participate in four rehearsals and six performances. The Arches can speak to those interested who can't commit to this about alternative arrangements.[/font=Arial] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.