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Three Women From Sophie Tea's "Send Nudes Live" On Loudly Embracing Their Bodies
It's the afternoon of Sophie Tea's "Send Nudes Live" at the London Palladium. When I arrive, the theatre is bustling with backstage crew and women being painted from head-to-toe. "Send Nudes Live" is a powerful exploration of the female body with a live painting session of the female 'nudies' featuring a choir, powerful stories shared, and tears being shed. It finishes with a catwalk like no other.
Tea explains in the opening monologue that creating the show was a form of dialogue with her own body, healing wounds by connecting and immortalising the beauty of strangers. The one-night-only affair is a celebration of womanhood, sisterhood, motherhood, and love. Before the show, we caught up with the artist, Sophie Tea, and three 'nudies' who will soon be baring all on the catwalk in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.