The Moulin Rouge is a revue theatre in the Montmartre district of Paris, France. Built in 1885 it became a dance hall in 1900, and became famous for its soft-porn revue shows of the 'cancan' immortalised in the posters and drawings of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Today, the revue shows are still soft-porn, with naked and semi-naked dancers prancing about to the sounds of music and accompanied by computer-controlled light shows, and interspersed with magic shows. Research Moulin Rouge
The cancan is a soft-porn, high kicking dance which originated during the 19th century in the polka grdens of the Rue de la Grande-Chaumiere, in the Montmart region of Paris, France, but which became famous after being staged in the Moulin Rougedance hall. Tame by today's standards, at the end of the 19th century the sight of lady dancers revealing their frilly underwear was a shocking and exciting spectacle to the spectators. Research Cancan
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