Cabaret
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Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, casino, hotel, restaurant, or nightclub with a stage for perform
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, 1890
The Café des Aveugles ("Café of the Blind") in the cellars of the Palais-Royal at the beginning of the 19th century
The composer Eric Satie playing the harmonium at Le Chat Noir (1880s)
The Moulin Rouge in 1893
Striptease
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A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner. The person who performs a striptease i
Cabaret
…according to its European origins, is often (but not always) oriented towards adult audiences and of a clearly underground nature. In the United States, striptease, burlesque, drag shows, or a solo vocalist with a pianist, as well as the venues which offer this entertainment, are often advertised as cabarets. The…
American burlesque dancer Lola Bel Aire performing a traditional striptease, 2008
Josephine Baker in her "girdle of bananas" outfit, first seen in the Folies Bergère show La Folie du jour in 1926–27
La Fontaine plate, 1896
Mata Hari. The most celebrated segment of her stage act was the progressive shedding of her clothing until she wore just a jeweled bra and some ornaments over her arms and head.