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The Naughty Dames of Paris

Dance videos of Maria D’Arcy

  1. The mystery of love, a music video for Julie Rose Wilde
  2. The Naughty Dames of Paris
  3. Folks Back Home, by the Hut Dwellers
  4. Golden Hair at the Cent-Quatre in Paris
  5. Burlesque Blooms at the Cantada II
  6. Salomé, recital and dance at le Chat Noir
  7. Dancing the Pink Panther at l’Atelier Z
  8. Big Spender at le Cantada II
  9. Balinese dancing at the Casino de Paris
  10. Arabian Dancing at Atelier Z
  11. The Dance of Seven Veils
  12. The Gerry Ryan TV Show in Dublin
  13. A Saint Paddy’s day message, 2021

Isabelle Sojfer and I met on rue de Rivoli, outside the art space «Électron Libre» where I had just finished a storytelling Bloomsday performance. Isabelle had been in the same building for an alternative fashion show and, to my delight, said she found my style more original.

It turns out she lives beside me in the 17th district of Paris, so we shared a taxi back. Later I discovered her talent for writing spicy tales while I told her about my recent burlesque shows. We both like to play with the line between naughty and nice, provocative but never offensive. Isabelle also sings ballads accompanied by a quaint ukulele made specifically for her by Tim Lazer.

We decided to mingle our creativity and thus we became the Naughty Dames of Paris. Naturally we included Victor Hugo and Esmeralda. The photographer David Henry followed us around our quarter one sunny Sunday turning it into an ambient photoshoot. Here is an extract from our first show in the cellar-bar of the Santa Maria restaurant.

—Maria D’Arcy

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