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Katrina Palecek, Cassidy Bean, Ella Springer, Anna Guerra

Katrina Palecek, Cassidy Bean, Ella Springer, Anna Guerra

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Katrina Palecek, Cassidy Bean, Ella Springer, Anna Guerra
In Integrative Studio and Seminar 1, our group was tasked with exploring a location in Paris. We decided to focus on the Moulin Rouge and the people who flock there to see the can-can, the famous French dance in which female performers deliver intentionally revealing high kicks. Our concept was simple: to focus on reactions to performances of the dance and to engage with its charged history. We walked up to men and women with a camera and a recorder and asked them to perform the can-can. People from all over the world were featured, reflecting the impact of global tourism on the Moulin Rouge tradition. Today the can-can is kitschy rather than gloriously scandalous. This project revealed with humor that people in the street asked to do the can-can fear embarrassment and the public spotlight rather than the suggestiveness of the dance.

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Katrina Palecek, Cassidy Bean, Ella Springer, Anna Guerra

Katrina Palecek, Cassidy Bean, Ella Springer, Anna Guerra

Katrina Palecek, Cassidy Bean, Ella Springer, Anna Guerra

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