SF's undressed Night Marsh, etc.

Gonzo notes instead of a review, about watching Night Marsh/the Undressed Project by Dandelion Dancetheater, at Jon Sims Center for the Arts, SF, 9 July 2004:

This queer elder nudist sits clothed in the very front row, feeling corpse-like amongst an audience of the mainly beautiful and mostly young, almost all of whom look like dancers themselves. Fit thinnies who seem to live on bottled water.

Opening satire, ILLUSIVE, lets chubby naked Eric dance until a clothed lecturer interrupts to explain why he can't be a "real" dancer because he lacks a real "dancer's body"....

Later, NIGHT MARSH starts by (deliberately?) frustrating viewers. A dark room fills with nude dancers of two or three genders. But they're barely visible, lurking in shadows and nooks while they stand immobile, watching an overly long video. After this low point, the rest of the show delights.

All-nude dancing embodies joy, timidity, love, fear, playfulness, disability, more. Not as obviously as Broadway, yet not nearly as opaquely as some avant-garde performances.

This anatomically and politically correct cast chooses to embrace fat dancers along with the slender majority. All dance gracefully, except when they choose to seem ungraceful. Fanciers of eye candy won't feel deprived.

Puppy-piles roll across the floor, three boys in one, three girls in another, like mini-playparties at a low-grav space resort.

When all the naked dancers shake at once, the floor vibrates beneath the clothed audience. I remember an urban legend about a walking cat's rhythm destabilizing the Golden Gate Bridge.

This dance, with added words, images, and sounds, resembles a theatrical play. A series of implied themes, without narrative or plot. Mostly dramatic, relieved by some clowning.

A beautiful one-legged man, singing Alouette duet with another man, puts snow-white powder on a woman's large butt. The room goes dark. Then the whitened moon becomes mini-screen for video of a smaller butt dancing.


-- Tortuga Bi LIBERTY,
San Fran Crisco
10 June 2004, Saturday morning
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PS 1: Last SF performance(s) tonight, Saturday, June 10, at JSC
[ http://www.jonsimsctr.org ]
Phone 415.554.0402 soonest, to reserve seats;
or try your luck, 7:30 PM for 8pm show, at
1519 Mission.
To get there, take Muni underground to Van Ness station,
walk along SOUTH Van Ness to Mission Street.
Or take bus(es) along Mission.


PS 1-A: If you can't get into the show, all's not lost --
JSC's near the Power Exchange (adult clothing-optional SM and sex club,
welcoming all genders/orientations).
Women, including M2F trannies, get in free.



PS2: For more info on dance performance projects, please see:

[ http://dandelionDanceTheater.org ]


PS 3:
For "body image and size acceptance" issues, please see:

[ http://www.CAMFT.org/therapists/LuciaAugust ]

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P.S. 4: July events also include:



USA: July 11, Sunday:
Fascists stage "Protect Marriage Sunday" at right-wing churches,
trying to prevent same-sex marriages.
...
Soulforce counter-demonstrates.
[ http://www.soulforce.org ]

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CAL: SF: ___ (mid-July?) Demonstrate nude for peace at clothing-optional weekend DADAFEST?
(If it happens at all this year? Each year it's been billed as "the last" dadafest.....
And as of 5 July 2004, the dadafest website still presents info for the event which began on 12 July 2003, a Saturday.
No mention of 2004, in which 12 July falls on a Monday. Alas.)
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CAL: SF____ (mid to late July?) Nude yoga demos at Fisherman's Wharf ????

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USA: circa July 12-15: U.S. Senate begins debate on a so-called "Federal Marriage Amendment",
which would ban same-sex marriages; and which might also ban civil unions.
Bigots would need 2/3 majority (67 votes) to pass a constitutional amendment through the Senate.
Republican leaders don't expect to get 67, but they do hope anti-queer debate will distract voters' attention from Iraq.

The U.S. House of Representatives may also debate this queer-bashing amendment,
before the Democratic Party national convention.

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MASS: Boston: July 25, Sunday, starting around 12 noon at Boston Commons:
demonstration(s) near Democratic Party national convention.
Make and bring your own equal-rights signs!
Wear wedding costumes?

For frequent updates, please visit Boston Indymedia
( http://boston.indymedia.org )

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CAL: SF: July 24, Sat. eve: "Perverts Put Out" reading.
[ http://www.blackbooks.com ]
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CAL: SF: July 25, Sunday, daytime:
Demonstrate nude for peace at clothing-optional Dore Alley Fair.
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PLEASE FORWARD, as appropriate.
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