The Moulin-Rouge wings turn again, fourteen months after their accidental fall

They are one of the tourist symbols of Paris worldwide. Furthermore, Fourteen months after their accidental fall. Meanwhile, the Moulin-Rouge wings started to turn on Thursday, July 10 in the evening, in the sky of moulin-rouge wings turn again, fourteen the French capital.

“The whole troop is very happy to find our wings. Moreover, which are the wings of Paris”told the Agency France-Presse (AFP) Cyrielle, one of the sixty dancers of the Parisian cabaret.

Shortly before 11 p.m.. However, these decorations, with a diameter of more than twelve meters, were animated thanks to the start of a brand new electric motor and made to measure.

For the occasion. Therefore, the Moulin-Rouge troop occurred in front of the establishment, in a profusion of twirling red feathers symbolizing the awakening of the wings. Moreover, Several hundred onlookers came moulin-rouge wings turn again, fourteen to attend this rebirth, interrupting traffic on this very busy boulevard in the north of Paris. On the roof of the establishment, dancers celebrated this restart with fireworks by hand.

New engine – Moulin-rouge wings turn again, fourteen

On April 25. 2024, the cabaret immortalized by the painter Toulouse-Lautrec in the XIX^e century and by Baz Luhrmann’s film with Nicole Kidman (2001), woke up without her wings. They had fallen into the night without making any injuries. due to a failure at the central axis, creating stupor among the inhabitants of the neighborhood and beyond. In their fall. they had led to the first three letters of the name of the place hung on its facade in the 18th^e Paris arrondissement, at the foot of the Montmartre Butte.

Stay open since the accident. the mill is particularly renowned for its French Cancan, the frenzied traditional dance of Offenbach operettas in the moulin-rouge wings turn again, fourteen middle of the 19th century^e century.

On July 5. 2024, a week before the Olympic flame for the Paris Games, the Moulin-Rouge had inaugurated four new wings, a mixture of aluminum and steel, but the new engine necessary for their rotation had not been ready in time.

“The wings have always turned to the Moulin-Rouge. so we had to give back this Parisian symbol in Paris, to France and in the state in which it was before”told AFP Jean-Victor Clérico, managing director of the establishment which attracts 600,000 visitors each year.

From 4 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Now, the Moulin-Rouge wings will run every day from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. They are illuminated by hundreds of red and gold bulbs, now low energy LEDs. They had turned for the first time on October 6, 1889, at the opening of the cabaret.

With its 90 artists of eighteen nationalities. the Cabaret offers two representations 365 evenings per year, in a whirlwind of feathers, rhinestones and glitter; They bring together a total of 1,700 spectators, half of whom are foreigners. On stage, the troupe-whose emblematic “Doriss Girls”, named after the choreographer of the Moulin Doris Haug (1927-2014)-presents at 9 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. Magictribute to the circus and the Light City from 1900 to the present day, before the essential French Cancan.

In the same family for four generations, the Moulin-Rouge created in 2024 within its walls a “city of art trades” bringing together the last French workshops of Plumasserie and Embroidery, labeled Living Heritage Companies.