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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
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 Posted - 06/24/2009 : 14:41:01
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The Sunday Herald.
Mass stripalong ... 150 women take off their clothes for
art
Trilogy director appeals for female volunteers to appear naked on stage
By Edd McCracken, Arts Correspondent
EDINBURGH'S NEW
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 songs by rock
band, the Pixies, 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
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MissMaceo
= Cult of Ray =
USA
388 Posts |
Posted - 06/25/2009 : 18:32:16
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| what the hell |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 06/26/2009 : 07:13:34
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| Frank Black begs women to get naked for upcoming Hollywood sex-themed Pixies album |
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fbc
-= Modulator =-
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06/26/2009 : 08:07:05
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| ...You are invited as well! the password is BLACK RIDER! SEE YOU THEN! |
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trobrianders
> Teenager of the Year <
Papua New Guinea
3302 Posts |
Posted - 06/26/2009 : 12:48:34
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I read that somewhere too. Can't wait.
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Ed is the hoo hoo |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 08/11/2009 : 08:01:25
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guardian.co.uk - Naked ambition: Edinburgh show seeks volunteers.
For most people, dancing naked in front of a large audience is the kind
of classic nightmare from which one wakes up shaken – but relieved to
be safely in bed.
Not so, it seems, for the 16 dauntless women, ranging in age from their
early 20s to their 50s, who are kicking, leaping and windmilling over an
Edinburgh stage. This is a wild, caterwauling, Bacchanalian frenzy of a
dance. Then there is the inescapable fact that they are stark naked, a
whirling mass of breast, buttock and leg of every conceivable shape and
heft going at it frenetically to a raucous soundtrack by the Pixies.
*bump*
This story just keeps on running! ;D
The Independent - Observations: Trilogy is the feminist Fringe hit that puts the treat into treatise. |
Edited by - Carl on 01/07/2010 16:36:12 |
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Thomas
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 01/08/2010 : 02:08:16
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16 is the new 150. Guess they couldn't get 150 women.
"Our Love is Rice and Beans and Horses Lard" |
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