Nudity is less often found in mainstream dance, such as ballet. ![]() In a 2012 article, dance critic Alastair Macaulay surveyed nudity on stage from its beginnings in the 1960s and finds it had been normalized in avant-garde modern dance, including erotic elements. While nudity in social dance is not common, events such as "Naked Tango" have been held in Germany. Contemporary choreographers consider nudity one of the possible "costumes" available for dance, some seeing nudity as expressing deeper human qualities through dance which works against the sexual objectification of the body in commercial culture. While premiering in Denmark without comment regarding the nudity, the work's performance in the United States in 1976 was limited to four evening performances at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Nudity became part of classical ballet in 1972 in the performance of Flemming Flindt's Triumph of Death by the Royal Danish Ballet. In the 1910s in Europe a number of solo female dancers performed in the nude. ![]() In Western traditions, dance costumes have evolved towards providing more freedom of movement and revealing more of the body complete nakedness being the culmination of this process. ![]() However, some claim that modern practices may be used to promote "ethnic tourism" rather than to revive authentic traditions. Partial or complete nudity is a feature of ceremonial dances in some tropical countries. Dance, as a sequence of human movement, may be ceremonial, social or one of the performing arts.
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