In the early morning of April 25, local time, the blades of the windmill of the Moulin Rouge Cabaret, a landmark building in Paris, fell, but there were no casualties.
The windmill of the Moulin Rouge, a famous landmark in Paris, has fallen down
The Paris fire department said all four blades fell from the windmill of the Moulin Rouge between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on April 25, AFP reported. The blades smashed into the vestibule and the main door, causing some damage. At present, the blades that fall on the ground are covered with tarps for protection, and there is no risk of collapse of other buildings, and the reason for the fall of the blades is not yet known.
此外,红磨坊法语名字"Moulin Rouge"中的MOU三个字母也掉落在地,仅剩"RED LINEN"字样。
The management of the Moulin Rouge told the media that the possibility of "vandalism" was ruled out. French media reported that the Moulin Rouge cabaret was built for the first time in such a serious accident. Luckily, the windmill blades fell early in the morning, and the Moulin Rouge was closed.
It is understood that the Moulin Rouge Cabaret was founded in 1889 and is the birthplace of the Paris Cabaret, which is famous for staging the famous French "Cancan", and the red mill windmill on its roof is a landmark building in Paris.
In addition to the Moulin Rouge, Paris Travel Network recommends three other nightclubs to watch cancans: Lido, Paradis Latin, and another well-known nightclub.
The Lido nightclub will be transformed into a concert hall
But among them, the Lido nightclub, which is synonymous with Parisian glitz and glitz nightlife, has come to an end.
In December 2021, after being acquired by the famous hotel group Accor, the Lido nightclub in Paris, France, announced in May of the following year that it would change its business philosophy, bidding farewell to the romantic, glamorous and extravagant nightclub dance show created over the past 70 years, and replacing it with a song and dance performance. The Lido nightlife, which once made Margaret Thatcher, Princess Diana, Audrey Hepburn and other dignitaries and celebrities become guests, has entered history.
According to people familiar with the matter, in previous years, the Lido nightclub had accumulated losses of up to 80 million euros. Like all performing arts venues, the Lido nightclub in Paris has been hit hard by the measures taken to prevent and control the coronavirus crisis: in 2020, the turnover of all performing arts venues plummeted by 80%.
Jean-Jacques Clérico, grandson of the Lido founder, said of the transformation of the Lido nightclub: "A jewel of Parisian nightlife is disappearing. ”
Bruno Vandelli, a famous choreographer and dancer, lamented on social platforms, "The Lido is over! All the dancers and crew here light up the Parisian night...... This is sad news. ”
But Paradis Latin and another well-known nightclub, through the pandemic, are still open for business.
History of Cancan
In Paris at the beginning of the 19th century, male and female dancers were paired up in pairs to complete dance moves according to the strict requirements of movement and beat.
In 1825, male dancers, tired of the rules of dance, began improvising, kicking high in the air or swooping down on the dance floor and gliding against the floor, shouting and cheering for themselves. The girls followed suit, swinging their legs, splitting and even lifting their skirts to reveal their panties on the dance floor. Because of the "clang" sound of the dancing shoes hitting the floor, this new type of dance is called "cancan".
In 1829, female dancers were allowed to complete the dance without the guidance of a male dancer. At the same time, female dancers began to improvise dance moves.
In 1831, cancan dancing was banned. Police arrest the cancan dancer. In Montmartre, which was then part of the "Parisian countryside", women who dared to dance solo and deliberately bared their thighs were criticized by the authorities for being debauched and immoral. The police were dispatched to arrest "nasty country dancers", and the newspapers and churches attacked them, and the churches spoke out against the cancan.
Unexpectedly, the more they tried to ban it, the more the Cancan aroused the curiosity of the Parisian literati, who secretly came to Montmartre to watch this dance that challenged authority, and even gladly joined it.
In 1857, the famous dancer Lady Rigolboche and others re-choreographed the cancan and added repeated high-altitude kicks to form a fast-paced, high-dynamic dance set of 8 minutes.
In 1860, the rudiments of the modern Cancan were formed, with female dancers earning more than male dancers.
In 1889, Montmartre was born the Moulin Rouge nightclub. From the first day of its opening, the cancan has attracted almost all of Parisian people. In the painting of Toulouse-Lautrec, dancing cancans are about to emerge. His expressive posters became a sought-after item for a while, and hawkers quietly removed them from the newspaper board for resale, and the Moulin Rouge had to be constantly improvised for printing. Other masters such as Rouault, Seurat and Picasso also drew inspiration from the cancan and left behind portraits of cancan dancers in different styles.
Cancan: The dance of feminism
For a long time after the popularity of the cancan, foreigners always associated the cancan with eroticism and low-grade tastes. The British likened it to the "Parisian dance of openness," while the Americans recorded the "cheesy cancan" as if they were "discovering the New World."
However, Nadège Maruta, a cancan choreographer and author of The Legendary History of Cancan, argues that cancan has nothing to do with pornography and that its core ethos is feminism.
In the 19th century, washerwomen relaxed themselves by dancing a cancan after a tiring day, and the dancers carried their long skirts and shook to imitate washing clothes. In the four prescribed movements of the cancan: in pairs, one leg is upright in the air and the other leg is placed in an A-line, which is the "cathedral" and is used to mock the oppression of women by religion.
The left leg is independent, and the right leg is pulled up to the ear and saluted, which is the "end rifle", as a way to express anti-war. The movement of the left leg independently, while bending the right leg and shaking, represents a call for sexual freedom...... "Only by understanding this can we understand the woman's desire to 'free her legs to free herself' in the cancan", adds Maruta.
Of course, in addition to the skirt kicks and the above-mentioned symbolic movements, the dancers also have to continue to somersault, jump the big split to the ground, and quickly flip and split the land. This gave the Cancan the title of "Acrobatic Dance". To dance a cancan at the Moulin Rouge, a girl must be elegant, individual and skillful, with a height of at least 1.75 meters and a weight fluctuation of no more than 2 kilograms during employment.
In addition to rehearsing for 4 hours a day, the newcomers also have to strengthen their physique in the gym. Mathilde admits that the Cancan was the most difficult and physically demanding of the performance, with each dancer kicking no less than 1,500 times a week, some of which were more difficult than acrobatics.
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