by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet
This mega-production involving 26 company dancers was created by Jorden Morris, the choreographer behind Peter Pan, the biggest success in the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's history. His new work brilliantly recreates the sparkle of Paris during the Belle Époque. The most celebrated cabaret of all time and the birthplace of the can-can and the quadrille, the Moulin Rouge has been the subject of numerous books, paintings, movies and musicals.
It's Paris at the turn of the 20th century. In a city where passion and excess reign, the painter Mathieu finds tender romance with a young laundress, Nathalie. The two burn with love and ambition. Nathalie is offered a job at the Moulin Rouge, whose owner, the diabolical Zidler, looks maliciously at her romance with Mathieu. Intent on making names for themselves at the famous cabaret, the couple encounters Montmartre's denizens in all their splendid array and rubs shoulders with famous people like Toulouse-Lautrec, the can-can queen La Goulue and Môme Fromage. All of Paris is captivated by the seductive dancers appearing nightly at this crossroads of loose living, the Moulin Rouge. But Nathalie's love for Mathieu is soon threatened by Zidler's obsessive jealousy.
After its premiere in Winnipeg on October 17, 2009, Moulin Rouge has had great success on tour in several of Canada's major cities.
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