7 Things you didn’t know about the Moulin Rouge Paris Dancers

Moulin dancers come from all over the world

It takes a lot of skill and talent to be a Moulin Rouge dancer, dancers are selected from all over the world. The Moulin Rouge’s troupe has eighty artists of fourteen nationalities, of which around twenty artists are men. The majority of the artists are Australians, and Australians also make up more than a third of the Doris Girls. The performances at the Moulin Rouge still hold to the traditions established at the cabaret’s founding on Oct. 6, 1889, when women who made a living washing linen by day transformed themselves into dancers at night. Moulin Rouge still gives tourists and Parisians a taste of the demi-monde, it is also the place where many dancers from the UK go to find work providing, and they cut the majority of its performers are British.

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