Nude Ballet Sparks National Anger

The world’s first partly nude ballet production of Romeo and Juliet has sparked an avalanche of complaints from women’s and religious groups across Australia.
The Russian National Ballet will perform Romeo and Juliet, with nude scenes, for the first time in its World’s Greatest Ballets program set to debut in Australia next month.
But the prospect of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers flashing the flesh in “bedroom scenes for the new millennium” has triggered an outcry from moral conservatives, the ballet’s Australian promoter Graham Hutchison said.
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(via The Bulge Report)

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