Since you insist...
Posted on 09/17/2009 1:08:33 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
CRAZY Horse, the upmarket Paris cabaret that insists its strip show is art, is revamping its decades-old revue to include a number that presents clothes removal as a solution to economic crisis.
The cabaret off the Champs Elysees, which has seen stars like Madonna, U2 and Gerard Depardieu sip champagne in its red velvet seats as they watch women undress, has hired star choreographer Philippe Decoufle to update its show.
Decoufle, who staged the 2007 Rugby World Cup and the Albertville Winter Olympics ceremonies in 1992, will launch the new revue next Monday after months of rehearsals.
"We work with a tiny idea for each number, and for which we put one, two or 12 girls on stage - they're stunning, naked, with high heels and wigs," the 47-year-old said at a press preview of the show this week.
One number features dancer Fiamma Rosa, dressed in a severe business suit, sitting at a desk while stock market prices flit across a screen behind her. She fields a phone call that, judging by her dismayed reaction, brings bad news for her business. Her response is to begin removing her clothes and dance and drape herself provocatively across her desk.
Start of sidebar. Skip to end of sidebar. End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. "Another number is like one of those pens that you turn upside down and the woman's clothes fall off," said Decoufle.
The routine he has called "Scanner" features several dancers gyrating between poles as a strip of light - meant to represent the light that runs across a document in a scanner - moves up and down their near-naked bodies.
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldsun.com.au ...
Wonder if the Swedish government would consider this a work of art and fund it with tax dollars?
LOL
TTIUWOP
at least he doesn't call it the, "shining." then, it would be a dramatic horror movie... oh wait.
If you apply through ACORN, you can probably get a government grant to study this unique cultural phenomenon. Or perhaps you could work the “stripping as proof of Global Warming” angle.
Since you insist...
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