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German cathedral offers ‘sincere regret’ for chicken dance

Luke Coppen
May 29, 2025
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A German cathedral chapter apologized this week for hosting a performance featuring semi-clad dancers waving plucked chickens wrapped in diapers.

Paderborn Cathedral in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. A.Savin/wikimedia FAL

The chapter of Paderborn Cathedral expressed “sincere regret” May 26 that the performance by the dance ensemble Bodytalk “offended re…

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