Cabaret facts for kids
Cabaret is a form of entertainment having comedy, song, dance, and theatre. Cabarets are mostly performed in a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables (often dining or drinking) watching the performance. The venue itself can also be called a "cabaret."
The term is a French word for the taprooms or cafés where this form of entertainment was born, as a more artistic form of café-chantant. It comes from Middle Dutch cabret, through Old North French camberette, from Late Latin camera. It essentially means "small room."
Images for kids
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Josephine Baker in a cabaret performance at the Folies Bergere (1927)
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The Café des Aveugles in the cellars of the Palais-Royal (beginning of the 19th century)
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The composer Eric Satie playing the piano at Le Chat Noir (1880s)
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The Moulin Rouge in 1893
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1896 advertisement for a tour of the first French cabaret show, Le Chat Noir.
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A long-established cabaret venue in Manhattan, New York
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The Ani Mru Mru Polish cabaret group performing in Edinburgh in 2007
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Saint Bongita in the 1974 Christmas show at the Poor House, Stockholm
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See also
In Spanish: Cabaré para niños
