Hi everyone! Then, listen: can-can dancers, Montmartre, dance revue, Paris music hall, burlesque beauty, champagne, confetti… Any thoughts on this subject? All this is Red Mill, and all this means Moulin Rouge, dreadfully sinful, forbidden and simply magical!
A legendary Paris cabaret is located in the heart of Pigalle/Montmartre. Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller founded it on the 6th of October 1889.
They had chosen the name Moulin Rouge (it means Red Mill) for their theatre and announced the new entertainment theatre “a temple of music and dance”. “Le Premier Palais des Femmes” (The First Palace of Women in English) quickly became awfully popular. The end of 1880s was known as the time of the “Belle Époque”, a period of progress and liberation, particularly as it concerned sexual sphere. Paris was believed the city of sinful freedom, the Moulin Rouge was believed as a place of seduction, a place of feathers and confetti, surprising and charming one. The Moulin Rouge is especially famous for the legendary French dance of can-can and is closely connected with the name of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, a French painter and illustrator. The paintings and posters created by him of famous Moulin Rouge scenes immortalized the cabaret.
For the first decades of its being, the Moulin Rouge was known as a place where men could view young French girls dancing can-can, an amazing dance from the 1830s. Provocative movements, black fascinating stockings, high-kicking – all that meant can-can “scandalous” and even “vulgar” dance. The giant windmill and red façade of the Moulin Rouge was quickly associated with the atmosphere of flexible moral and nude Parisian courtesan dances. Later, the dubious reputation turned to a high-classed cabaret with extravagant original musical shows. The world stars even were honored to take part in the Moulin Rouge shows, among them Liza Minnelli, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour, Frank Sinatra and many others. In November 23, 1981, the cabaret closed for only one evening – this evening show was performed to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
If you have never experienced anything quite like this, the Moulin Rouge night performance is definitely worth seeing! You will never forget these tinsel and rhinestone costumes, this electric atmosphere, a free champagne! Indulge yourself with this golden chance and invite your Russian lady for the Feerie show of the Moulin Rouge!