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‘Clothing is optional’: Nude dance performance to take place at certain Vancouver beach this summer

This year will mark the 27th annual Kokoro Dance performance
2009 Wreck Beach Butoh
The 27th annual Kokoro Dance performance is to be held at Vancouver’s Wreck Beach on July 24 and July 25. Clothing will be optional.

It should almost go without saying this nude dance performance will take place at Vancouver's one and only Wreck Beach.

Not just because the beach is one of the most popular spots for visitors to shed their societally-mandated second skin, but because the dance has been put on for the last 26 years. Created by the Vancouver-based Kokoro Dance Theatre Society, the performers go through a two-week intensive workshop before putting on the show with the set, costumes, and lighting “provided by Mother Nature.”

"Each year, we create a new dance that embraces the sand, water, and air at this beautiful location with its views of the Howe Sound to the west, mountains to the north, and the skyline of the city to the east,” the dance studio wrote in a release announcing the performance. “We promise a unique performance experience unlike any other in the world.”

The performances will take place on July 24 at 12 p.m. and July 25, 12:45 p.m. on Wreck Beach at the foot of #4 Trail, west of the UBC Museum of Anthropology. Attendance is by donation, the suggested donation amount is between $5 and $10.

Photography and recording of any kind are strictly prohibited.