Knees up and frocks out for Riga's grand Christmas cabaret

  • 2003-12-11
  • By Elizabeth Celms
RIGA - Ahhhh...cabaret, that unequaled form of art and entertainment that grew out of "la belle epoque." Beginning with the opening of Le Chat Noir in the Monmarte district of Paris in 1881, cabaret originally was a venue for Parisian artists and intellectuals such as Maupassant, Debussy and Satie to discuss their ideas (and have a good time to boot). By the 20th century, the idea spread to Germany where cabarets became a place for artistic protest and radical satire. In the 1920s these nightclub performers took full advantage of the Weimar Republic's liberal constitution that abolished ce...
 
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