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La Goulue (French pronunciation: [la guly], meaning The Glutton), was the stage name of Louise Weber (12 July 1866 – 29 January 1929), a French can-can dancer who was a star of the Moulin Rouge, a popular cabaret in the Pigalle district of Paris, near Montmartre. [1]
Moulin Rouge [1] (/ ˌ m uː l æ̃ ˈ r uː ʒ /, French: [mulɛ̃ ʁuʒ]; lit. ' "Red Mill" ') is a cabaret in Paris, on Boulevard de Clichy, at Place Blanche, the intersection of, and terminus of Rue Blanche.
The professional dancers of the Second Empire and the fin de siècle developed the can-can moves that were later incorporated by the choreographer Pierre Sandrini in the spectacular "French Cancan", which he devised at the Moulin Rouge in the 1920s and presented at his own Bal Tabarin from 1928. This was a combination of the individual style of ...
IN FOCUS: As a new BBC Two documentary lifts the lid on the Parisian venue, Nicole Vassell takes a trip to the French capital to hear about working life within its plush, red walls
The Moulin Rouge, the French cabaret famous for its high-kicking cancan dancers and flesh-exposing ostrich feather costumes, this week marks 130 years since it first opened its doors to audiences.
Before the lights go down in Hollywood’s iconic Pantages theater for Moulin Rouge! The Musical’s North American tour, the ensemble cast struts around the extravagant set in a preview of what ...
The popular TV contest show Queen for a Day was broadcast from the Moulin Rouge during part of the show's 1956–1964 run. [4] The venue was also used for the 1965 concert film The Big TNT Show. [5] In late 1965 it became the Hullabaloo, a rock and roll club for teenager to capitalize on the popularity of the musical variety show Hullabaloo.
Bernadette Flynn (born 1979), Irish dancer, show dancer, performed in musical Lord of the Dance Margaret Kelly Leibovici (1910–2004), show dancer in Paris Monica Loughman (born c. 1978), ballerina, joined the Russian Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre in 1992, founder and director of Ireland's Monica Loughman Ballet [ 1 ]