Moulin Rouge - Backstage and From the Wings

All images taken at the Moulin Rouge Paris copyright Carla Coulson

If there is one place I love to be in Paris it is backstage. Take me backstage at the couture shows, backstage at the cabaret or backstage at the Ritz Hotel and Carla is one very happy girl!

What do I love about being backstage? Backstage is where its all happening. Whilst on the catwalk or on stage you see a polished show behind the scenes its wonderful chaos. Girls changing their clothes, someone late and running like a madwomen to be ready, a lost shoe, headdress or spangly bra.

And there is the anticipation. Those last seconds before the show starts, the perfect entrance at exactly the right moment. The sigh of relief from the staff, designers, costume makers, musicians that everything is running smoothly. The joy of the girls as they run offstage breathless with excitement that their performance was perfect. And the energy, the high energy that only performance brings. Whether it be on the catwalk or on the stage performance brings out their best and backckstage we witness the joy that being part of this world brings.

To all the dancers, cabarets, designers, choreographers, models, set designers and producers thank-you for letting me part of this is incredible world. There is nothing I like better.

Carla xxx

All Photos taken on my Leica M7.

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