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• A member of Cuba's ballet royalty laces up in Houston - Houston Chronicle

  13-08-2018 22:59
  Houston Chronicle
  A member of Cuba's ballet royalty laces up in Houston
  Houston Chronicle
  Striding into one of Houston Ballet's sunny studios last week, Carlos Quenedit could have passed for an energy trader. His jacket, button-down shirt and Oxford shoes lent him an air of easy authority that was tempered by his quick smile, especially ...
  
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• I watched three days of nudity at the Edinburgh fringe – this is what I learned

  13-08-2018 14:36
  Sex sells, which explains why performers have been getting their kit off at the fringe for years. But my fleshy odyssey was also mindbending – and profoundly movingFifteen naked people in a single day is a record for me. For a Monday, at least. I am in Edinburgh to attend the fringe, where I have been given a brief to … well, avoid briefs. Ban bras, skirt skirts – free willy. Go to Edinburgh, and see the naked shows, was the plan. Bring a towel to sit on, a venue said.Nudity i
  
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• Sex, sin and sausages: the debauched brilliance of Leigh Bowery

  13-08-2018 07:00
  His shocking shows – featuring births, enemas and vomiting – thrilled and appalled. Two decades after his death, why is the influence of this 80s nightclub legend still so pervasive?
  He was painted naked and sprawling by Lucian Freud. He “gave birth” to his own wife on stage, using sausages as an umbilical cord. And he was the star turn in Taboo, perhaps the most debauched nightclub Britain has ever seen, hosting the revelry with his face painted blue, his nose and nipple
  
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