Cabaret is one of the freest forms of entertainment, in which social norms are challenged for the sake of amusement. It was in bars that offered cabaret performances that French can-can appeared a century ago taking a conservative Europe by storm with the revealing legs of the dancers at a time when mini skirts were unconceivable. And after that, also in a cabaret show, Josephine Baker was the first black woman to appear topless in an artistic number on stage. The barriers of acceptable have long since fallen, but the choreographs never ceased to invent new contexts. Or, as is the case here, thousands of years old acts.
The cannibal-like costumes and the Neanderthal style bikini were a good pretext for a moment of exuberant tribal dance from the ballet group of Cabaret Paradis. Some dances under the limbo stick and some samba moves like in Brazil and the public was totally conquered. And the luckiest in the audience even enjoyed a teasing dance right next to their chairs form the lovely dancers.