Do the Dance

A 1969 Sacramento indecency trial that teased America is the subject of a documentary in production by area filmmakers led by veteran newspaper reporter Ed Fletcher. The colorful trial over "bottomless" dancing at Orangevale's Pink Pussy Kat will help to tell a broader story about the limits of free expression then and now, filmmakers say. The impactful Sacramento trial went national when Judge Earl Warren Jr. decided to take the jury to the club see the dancers "do the dance." The case helped write the rules for exotic dance in California.