Monday, March 10, 2025

Aurora, exploring & extending the limits of the erotic in dance

 

Art video: Grande Duello Dance by Aurora. EDSA content

Description from the YouTube page:

Prepare to be captivated by this artistic dance performance set to Unholy - Sam Smith, Kim Petras. 💃🔥 With every graceful move and expressive motion, this choreography brings the raw emotion of blues and rock to life. The haunting guitar melodies and soulful rhythms guide the dancer’s fluid yet powerful storytelling, evoking passion, pain, and resilience.

I believe that this is the first video I watched by Aurora, only a couple of days ago. I've since watched another half dozen or so across her three channels.

I was struck by a number of things: her ballet technique and costume, though her legs are not covered with a leotard, but also the obviously erotic nature of some of the poses and moves. "They allow this on YouTube?" I thought to myself. After all, some people are likely to consider this pornographic and report it to YouTube – I’m assuming YouTube does not host pornography; I’ve certainly never seen any there, or looked for it.

That’s obviously what the “EDSA content” designation is about. It stands for “Educational, Documentary, Scientific & Artistic” content. If you scroll though YouTube’s help system – there is no direct link that I can see – you’ll get an explanation. For example:

How content gets an EDSA exception

We assess whether content gets an EDSA exception on a case-by-case basis. First, we check if there’s a Community Guidelines violation in the content. If there’s a violation, we review if there’s enough context in the content to make an EDSA exception. We review WHAT context is present and WHERE the context is.

And so it goes. There's more if you keep scrolling.

Watching Aurora's videos prompted me to have a discussion with Claude 3.7 about pole dancing, ballet, and Fifty Shades of Grey, which I will post a bit later. & here it is!

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