Moulin Rouge 20152/25/2024  In September 2015 my friend Tom and I visited The Moulin Rouge courtesy of the VIP tickets that Tom (as a surprise) had booked and thus secured for the both of us.
To be fair, It was the only way that he or any one for that matter would have got me to walk through the doors of such a revered place. I, at this point had not wanted to betray my romantic ideal of the 1890s and so had always steadfastly refused to enter the place. Unless Toulouse-Lautrec was at his table sketching or Jane Avril dancing with her usual free spirit...well, I wanted nothing to do with the modern incarnation... thank you very much! I wrote up the whole of that particular trip and my thoughts on The Moulin Rouge visit in my blog entry for September 2015. Feel free to visit and read of my own and Tom's adventure. Anyway, and to the point, as a memory and to commemorate that trip and my first entry into The Moulin Rouge Tom purchased the above painting for me in the Place du Tertre in Montmartre. I still possess the painting and it serves as a wonderful reminder of that trip and my fated entry into The Moulin Rouge. Cheers Tom.
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So, here it is - Jane Avril - The Life of a Moulin Rouge Dancer.
Please do enjoy the film. The following is Marie's own comments and useful Chapter breakdown to her film. Jane Avril – The life of a Moulin Rouge Dancer is an artistic documentary where I tell all the facts I have discovered about French dancer Jane Avril’s life in detail. Starting from her birth in 1868 to her death in 1943. I reference all the historical facts and plausible stories I had found up until 2022. I often present information in front of places linked to the presented period in Jane’s life. The documentary was made while on a residency at Cité Internationale des Arts. It was shot in Paris and in Jouy-en-Josas, France. The documentary is part of the larger body of work about my relationship to French dance performer Jane Avril (1868-1943), who was a model and friend of artist Toulouse-Lautrec. I’ve felt connected to her personality and artistic expression ever since the very first time I saw images and photos of her in 2004. CHAPTER BREAKDOWN
My sources for making Jane Avril – The life of a Moulin Rouge dancer are: population censuses, the archive of Performing Arts – Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the archive of Museé Montmarte, a biography on Jane Avril from 1952, and my translation of Jane Avril’s memoirs from 1933, as well as biographies on Toulouse-Lautrec and the catalogue from the Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril – Beyond The Moulin Rouge. Welcome Back!2/13/2024 It's been a while since I last made any posts on my blog or indeed made updates to this site. That said, we GO AGAIN!
Quite a lot of new information has become available with respect to Jane Avril and over the coming weeks I will be making changes and adding updates to reflect all the new information that has come to light. Quite a lot of the new research has been undertaken by my friend Maria who has made a film about Jane Avril called - Jane Avril - The Life of a Moulin Rouge Dancer which is available on YouTube but I will add the film or failing that the link to ensure you all have the opportunity to watch it. I think you will all appreciate the effort and travel that Maria has put into the making of her film. I know I have. It was a labour of love. It's research that I certainly wasn't able to undertake but what it does do is fill in the gaps and corrects assumptions that most people had. We are now able to use the real names of those involved as Avril's biographer Jose Shercliff used false names to protect those possibly still alive at the time of its release in 1953. So, onwards we go and as ever please feel free to post a comment via the contact page when you visit. Craig 
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