{"id":2260,"date":"2010-01-27T23:14:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T06:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/01\/50-naked-women-dancing-exuberantly\/"},"modified":"2010-01-27T23:17:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T06:17:56","slug":"50-naked-women-dancing-exuberantly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/27\/50-naked-women-dancing-exuberantly\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Naked Women Dancing Exuberantly"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Prospect<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Decent exposure<\/h1>\n

ELIZABETH KIRKWOOD<\/a><\/p>\n

13th January 2010 \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Issue 166<\/a>\u00a0\"Free<\/p>\n

Women have been taking their clothes off in protest for centuries. But now that nudity is everywhere, is the naked body still an effective campaign tool?<\/p>\n

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Nic Green (right): using the body as a site of celebration and protest<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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The success of Nic Green\u2019s play\u00a0Trilogy<\/em>, a runaway hit at last year\u2019s Edinburgh festival and now touring Britain until the end of January, is down in no small part to the fact that it opens with an exuberant dance by 50 naked women. The most interesting question it poses, however, is this: has female nudity become so ubiquitous that it is now invisible? Given that we\u2019re bombarded with it daily\u2014on billboards, computer screens and in newspapers\u2014has the naked body lost its potency, particularly as a tool for political protest?<\/p>\n

Trilogy\u00a0<\/em>sets out to examine why the fire drained from the feminist spirit of the 1970s. Green, a Glaswegian writer\/director, and the rest of her young cast spend much of the triptych in the nude: after the 50 dancing women, the second segment is a naked recreation of a seminal moment in feminist history, when Norman Mailer debated women\u2019s liberation with Germaine Greer at the New York Town Hall in 1971\u2014a dialogue documented by DA Pennebaker in his legendary film,\u00a0Town Bloody Hall<\/a><\/em>.<\/em>\u00a0There is so much naked dancing in\u00a0Trilogy<\/em>, however, that what at first seems mildly eye-raising, becomes by the end of its three-hour duration, almost domestic.<\/p>\n

From Lady Godiva to the bra-burning of the 1970s, naked protest has been deemed rebellious largely because of the \u201cdeviant\u201d associations of nudity. Although we now like to consider ourselves too liberal and liberated to find public nudity deviant, clothing still remains the most powerful and immediate signifier of our socialisation. And the re-emergence of nudity as a popular form of political protest in recent years is striking\u2014groups such as Breasts Not Bombs, World Naked Bike Ride and Bare Witness use it as their primary campaign tool. But it perhaps suggests a different story: not that we find nudity scandalising, but that it has become harder to appear truly naked in public.<\/p>\n

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