Stripper sparks fury among Aboriginals after YouTube exotic dance on sacred Ayers Rock

By Richard Shears for MailOnline
Updated: 15:13, 28 June 2010

Aboriginals have called for a French exotic dancer to be deported from Australia after she was filmed stripping on Ayers Rock.

Miss Alizee Sery stripped down and put on an exotic show for a friend with a video camera on the top of the rock - which the Aborigines call Uluru - and posted it on YouTube.

The video shows her climbing the red sandstone monolith in conventional dress and then stripping at the top to a white bikini, white high-heeled boots and a bushman's hat.

Strip show: French dancer Alizee Sery has angered Australian Aboriginals after performing an exotic dance on the top of Ayers Rock

The incident has caused outrage among Australia's Aboriginal people as they believe the rock is 'sacred territory'.

Aborigines have asked tourists not to even climb the 1,142ft high rock because of its significance, but many visitors still clamber up a steep path to the top.

Aborigine John Scrutton, who lives in the Northern Territory city of Darwin, described people who show no respect to the rock as 'evil'.

'Aboriginal lore and law should be brought into effect - not all of us blackfellas are living in the dirt in humpys (a crude traditional dwelling),' he said.

What Miss Sery had done, he said, was the equivalent of someone defecating on the steps of the Vatican.

But Miss Sery, 25, insisted she did not intend to upset anyone by performing her exotic dance, which saw her flinging her stripper's clothes off with gay abandon.

In fact she claims her actions were a 'tribute' to Aborigine people.

'I do not mean in any way for this video to offend the Aboriginal culture,' she told the Sunday Territorian newspaper in Darwin. 'I am aware that Uluru is sacred in their culture.

Significant: Ayers Rock, which is World-Heritage listed, is considered sacred by the Aboriginal people

'My project is a tribute to the greatness of the rock. What we need to remember is that traditionally, the Aboriginal people were living naked. So stripping down was a return to what it was like.

'After such a hard climb, when you reach the top, the view and the magic of the place gives you an amazing feeling of peace and freedom.

You want to sing, dance - and strip.'

Climbing to the top, she said, was the fulfilment of a lifelong dream - 'one of those things we must experience in a lifetime.'

She said that if she was going to climb the rock only once in her life, she had to do something out of the ordinary - something catchy and crazy which in turn would give people the courage to believe in themselves.

'If I can do a strip on Ayers Rock, then anything is possible,' she said.

With a circumference of nearly six miles, the World Heritage-listed sandstone formation was named in 1873 after Sir Henry Ayers, who was Chief Secretary of South Australia, but its dual name of Ayers Rock/ Uluru was adopted in 1993.

It has featured in many real-life dramas in recent times - baby Azaria Chamberlain disappeared from the shadow of the rock in 1980, her parents claiming a dingo had taken the child from their tent, while Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees climbed to the top in 2001 in the days before he vanished in the outback.

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