Moulin Rouge
According to reports, the Moulin Rouge cabaret has a history of more than 110 years so far, and the Moulin Rouge dance performances are held every night in Paris, France, with tickets priced between 70-80 euros.
Travelers who have been to France, generally know that there are two famous cabaret halls in Paris, one is located in the center of the city on the Champs-Elysées Avenue Lido, one is located in the north of the city at the foot of the heights of Montmartre near the White Square Moulin Rouge.
If the Lido is American Broadway style, the Moulin Rouge, with its big, long, flashing red impeller on the roof, is more authentically French.
The Moulin Rouge, a masterpiece by Impressionist Auguste Renoir, made this cabaret world famous.
Two other films have taken on the theme of the Moulin Rouge: French Can-Can, by the great French director Jean Renoir, and Moulin Rouge, an entry in this year's Cannes Film Festival.
The latter is a gorgeous Hollywood film in the style of Nicole Kidman, starring in a poignant love story that takes place at the Moulin Rouge around 1900.
The film, which opened in France in early October, once again drew attention to the history and current state of the Moulin Rouge.
The history of the Moulin Rouge dates back to the second half of the 19th century.
At that time, wandering artists from all over the world painted and sold their art on the heights of Montmartre, filling the area with an artistic atmosphere and making it one of the most chic and colorful districts in Paris.
Because of this artistic activity, the Montmartre Heights neighborhood was lined with small cafes and bars on both sides of the winding cobblestone road.
Later, these little cafes and hotels were populated by ***, who wore long, lacy dresses and wiggled their hips to the rhythm of frenzied music, lifting their thighs high into the chandelier-hung ceiling.
At the time, the British called this dance the "cancan", which was considered to be very debauched and dirty, and was banned from performing in Britain.
But the cancan was very popular in the heights of Montmartre.
Every year at Carnival, dancers took to the streets and people came from all over the city to watch.
Sociologists analyzing the reasons for the popularity of cancan pointed out that, after the defeat of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, France was depressed.
In real life, scandals abounded, financial conglomerates fought in secret, and labor conflicts intensified.
The people were tired of the nationalists' rhetoric, and there was a great emptiness in the nation.
The French felt bitter and uncertain until they regained the coordinates of their lives.
Melancholy, however, was not a Gallic trait, and they soon learned to replace their bitterness with cynicism, which led to an indulgent atmosphere in Paris.
On October 6, 1889, the Moulin Rouge was born to the sounds of the cancan.
The painter of the Moulin Rouge, Toulouse-Lautrec, depicted the voracious spectators in several of his watercolors, and he himself ended up indulging in the Moulin Rouge, destroying his life in nightly orgies with the ***.
The *** of the Moulin Rouge, from France as well as from the rest of Europe and the Americas and Australia, had no higher aspirations than to meet a man who would treat them well.
The history of the Moulin Rouge, there have been a number of famous entertainers, such as Gouroux, Mom Fromartz, Jenny Averill.
One of the most famous is Gouroux, a voluptuous, graceful woman with a green satin tuxedo tied behind her hips, who caused a commotion every time she walked through the Montmartre neighborhood, and who became the Moulin Rouge's nom de guerre throughout the decades.
But it was a sad day for her, and in the 1960s a journalist trying to write a biography of her discovered that she was living in a traveling trailer.
In addition to ***, the Moulin Rouge also had some famous male performers, such as Yvette Gilbert, who was famous for his jokes, which combined wit and elegance and made him the "talk of the town" in France.
During the German occupation of the Second World War, the Moulin Rouge was still alive with song and dance.
After the war, the Moulin Rouge was severely criticized for its inglorious history.
Today the Moulin Rouge is a large cabaret and a tourist attraction in Paris.
If it still maintains some of the characteristics of a hundred years ago, that is, the dancers are decorated roughly the same, the upper body ***, draped in gorgeous feathered costumes or metal pieces, but the audience and the old days of the spectators can not be compared, the audience is a modern civilization of the audience, the mood to discover Paris to see the show, the actors put on the show as a kind of honest and upright show business, unlike a hundred years ago ***, to please one or a few packets of money. Unlike the *** of a hundred years ago, when she was forced to make a face to please the man or men who were keeping her.
And today the Moulin Rouge has 40 actresses and 20 actors from all over the world, mainly Australia, Russia and Britain.
The actresses must be trained as ballet dancers, at least 1.72 meters tall and between 16 and 25 years old.
The face should be pretty, the smile should be bright, the thighs should be slender, the nose should be playful ...... Actors start at 12,000 francs (1 franc is about 1.16 yuan), senior actors up to 30,000, they pay a lot of money to work six days a week and perform two shows a day.
The Moulin Rouge's current principal dancer and soloist, Marisa (pictured above left), is from Newcastle, Australia, a good family woman whose father is an engineer and whose mother is a nurse.
Marisa has been a performer at the Moulin Rouge for exactly 15 years and is married to an Italian soloist and acrobat in the company.
She has performed 6,000 times in the cabaret "Wonder" (which ran for 12 years)! Although she is 33 years old, it is said that she still has the body of a 17 year old girl, and that when she performs in a full outfit weighing 12 kilos, she "lifts" her thighs as if she were a teenager.
Commenting on Nicole Kidman's dance in the movie Moulin Rouge, she said, "It was OK, she did her best."
Many of the girls who danced at the Moulin Rouge went on to successful careers in film and television.
The Moulin Rouge is one of France's leading entertainment companies.
Its audience is 55% foreigners and 45% French expatriates.
In recent years, the enterprise has adopted some operational reforms, such as through the sale of family tickets and a variety of reduced tickets to attract the audience, and has been successful, in three years, the turnover from 130 million francs to 200 million francs.