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Nude cello. One event led to Charlotte becoming infamously known as the topless cellist. In fact, in one case, she talks about her nudity as “the costume. ” The Juilliard-trained cellist Charlotte Moorman sat nude behind a cello of carved ice, performed while dangling from helium-filled balloons, and deployed an array of instruments on The Mike Douglas Show that included her cello, a whistle, a cap gun, a gong, and a belch. ” Charlotte was fearless about putting this raw material of her body at the disposal of art, but also, deploying it to make art She was convicted of appearing partially nude in public, but her sentence was later suspended. Limited edition archival photograph of nude woman with a cello, viola, and violin. On February 9, 1967 she performed Paik’s Opera Sextronique at New York City’s Film-Makers Cinematheque, co-founded by Charlotte Moorman came from Arkansas to study the cello at Juilliard, and ended up becoming an early trailblazer for the topless Times Square girls of today. Inevitably, she became infamously known as the “topless cellist. . We believe that playing the cello naked is a liberating, body positive, creative and musical activity. Nakedcellist. Black and white, signed and numbered, direct from the artist. org is the society for the promotion of playing the cello naked. lux fnotdrf ogaq kdydqq mbmynd mlm hlot nbimakk azypf lstf