The Nekkid Band is Back!
It was two years ago in December on this site that we reported that the Nekkid Monday Band was to play no more. The talented but dispirited nudist funk group, led by Shane Gentry, had decided then that they lacked support from the community and would seek fame and fortune as musicians of the textile world instead. For a limited time, the band will reunite, playing two nights at the Hidden Beach Resort, the luxury clothing-optional on Mexico’s Yucatan coast.
Nekkid will play July 18th and 22nd, 2008, and will also join hotel guests for a day-long catamaran cruise, which we can only presume will be nude. More information can be had at the resort web site (link below) where there’s a sample of their music.
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Nudist Improv Night a Success
NEW YORK CITY - According to John Ordover, organizer of last week’s nude improv comedy in Manhattan, the show was a resounding success, filling-up every one of the tiny theater’s 39 seats with nude patrons. The four comedians, two men and two women, were also all naked on stage, as was Ordover, acting as emcee. The show was inspired by “Who’s Line is it anyway”, Drew Carey’s popular televised improv show, with a bit more relaxed dress code in this case.
Ordover told us that the spectators and the performers connected extremely well in this audience-participation event: “We did one bit called Paparazzi where most of the audience walked through the stage as if they were attending a ‘Red Carpet’ premiere and the performers pretended to take photos of them while making funny comments”. We asked him what was highlight of the evening and he told us it was the answer to the question “What is Hilary Clinton Thinking Right Now?” which was “I wish I had a penis”. Ordover’s events usually receive enormous media attention, but he no longer invites journalists to attend, presumably because his customers don’t desire that sort of publicity. He hints that he may do more nude improv nights in the future in view of this one’s success.
Another comedy show regularly done in the nude is the Naked Comedy Showcase in Boston, which we featured in an article last year (see link below). However, as Ordover points-out, it isn’t a nudist event as only the comedians can be naked.
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1960s: Golden Era of Nudist Exploitation Films
 
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Just as black Americans saw their culture exploited in cheesy movies, so did nudists become the subject of many low-budget films aimed at titillating the trench coat crowd. The golden era of such “nudexploitation” was in the early 60s, a time when pornography wasn’t so easily obtained. The “nudist” movie genre was championed by the likes of Doris Wishman and Herschell Gordon Lewis.
Wishman wrote and directed such gems as Hideout in the Sun (1960), Diary of a Nudist (1961), and Blaze Starr Goes Nudist (1962). The story lines ranged from a newspaper editor on a hunting trip accidentally stumbling upon a nudist camp (Diary), to bank robbers hiding-out in a nudist colony (Hideout). Nudist Day hasn’t seen any of her films, but reviews give a hint that her movies were actually respectful of naturism. To wit, one armchair critic whined that her movies made nudity boring, depicting naked people doing mundane day-to-day things. That sounds precisely like any given day at a modern nudist club! Lewis, on the other hand, was better known for cheap horror movies, but was the hand that crafted Daughter of the Sun (1962), a drama about the foibles of a schoolteacher who’s exposed as a nudist, Nature’s Playmates (1962), a nudist detective story (!), and Bell, Bare and Beautiful (1963), about a burlesque star looking for happiness in a nudist environment. Nudist exploitation movies didn’t actually start as a genre in the 1960’s. In fact, such entertainment was available as far back as the 1930’s, with such classics (!) as The Unashamed (1938), where a woman convinces her workaholic boss to unwind at a nudist camp. If you want to find-out more about the nudist movie genre, then pick-up a copy of “Cinema Au Naturel: A History of Nudist Film”, a book by Mark Storey, the editor of Nude and Natural magazine. Both the book and dvd’s of the movies we mentioned earlier can be bought at Amazon.com, if you’re so inclined. |
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Less Than 2008 Get Naked for Tunick’s Latest
VIENNA, AUSTRIA - May 11, 2008 - This morning, photographer Spencer Tunick completed yet another installation, this time in a football stadium in Vienna. 1,840 nude volunteers participated, short of his goal of 2,008 for this montage which celebrates the European cup taking place next month in the same stadium. His photos will be exhibited in the local Kunsthalle museum.
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Classic Theater Play Goes Nude
Phèdre is a 17th century tragedy written by Racine, one of the great French playwrights. As such, the classic has been acted-out in front of audiences thousands of times, but never like the current version running at the Salle du Faubourg, in Geneva, Switzerland: The five actors are completely naked throughout the performance.
Not only are the actors nude, but the play is “interactive”: The stage is in the center of the audience, and the performers at times walk down amongst the spectators while reciting their lines. The nudity is completely non-erotic and no effort is made to camouflage any of the actors’ physical imperfections.
The show closes today (May 4th, 2008).
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