A wild dance that police break up
Eugène Sue, Les Mystères de Paris, 1844
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- Former Moulin Rouge soloist, now France's leading cancan choreographer...
our star has created a performance about the origins of a dance whose celebrity comes from insolence.
"Women of humble origin asserted themselves against an elite that despised them," she says.
"The cancan was extremely individualistic, with physical exploits, costumes, noms de guerre...
Today's shows, with artists of the same height, same costumes, same make-up are an entirely different story."
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 - With Princesse Anne
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- Every step taunts authority...
- ...or belies the prejudice of women's frailty
- Costumes are as individual as the dancers
- The show ends with Marianne, symbol of the Republic
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 - Many of the privileged called the Republic "the whore"...
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Our artist choreographed the routines for the recent Offenbach performances at the celebrated Opéra Comique, "La vie parisienne" from 2002 to 2005, (which travelled to Washington's Kennedy Center in 2004) and "La veuve joyeuse" in 2006.
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She calls upon the best cancan dancers in Paris.
A cancan lesson can follow - please CLICK
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Black-white photo / supplied by the artist; other photos / Felix Sinpraseuth
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