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    Louise: The Last Dance

    United Kingdom · Greenside @ George Street

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    Paris, 1928. A bent and squinting old woman in rags shuffles out of a caravan in a slum market. This is Louise Weber: the woman who invented the cancan, seduced princes and made the Moulin Rouge famous. Toulouse-Lautrec painted her. Journalists destroyed her. Nobody let her speak. Until now. A solo multidisciplinary performance with live dance, projection and theatre, Louise: The Last Dance reclaims the story of the most famous woman you've never heard of. Loud, queer, working class and unforgettable. She was leered at her entire life. This time, she gets to talk back.

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    Filmed 19 Aug 2026Greenside @ George Street, Ivy Studio

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    Louise: The last Dance - Edinburgh Fringe 2026

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    4.0

    from 3 press reviews

    "Stella Kulagowski’s performance allows the extraordinary life of La Goulue to emerge from behind the familiar images of fin-de-siècle Paris. We all think we know the Moulin Rouge: the skirts, the high kicks, the posters, the absinthe-soaked mythology of Montmartre. Stella goes looking for the woman inside that mythology."

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    "Brilliant show.Highly entertaining and educational at the same time.This one woman play told the story and then some.The high kicks were a sight to behold in their own right. Came out having learned a lot but having enjoyed it even more!Excellent and from me."
    Anonymous
    "The sad tale of a naive and exploited young woman who was forgotten when she ceased to be of value. But now her memory lingers on. Excellent script professionally presented deserving of a bigger audience and more recognition. ."
    Daniel Pearce-Higgins
    "This is a gorgeous piece performed and developed by an incredibly talented and versatile actor, Stella Kulagowski. Strong parallels are drawn between Louise’s life experience and the treatment of women celebrities to this day. It drew tears. The space was used really well, incorporating projections of the woman in question as well as the art that she inspired. The sound was designed so that the play felt like there were many characters but Louise is the only one seen (rightly so). The costume design and choreographic use of on-stage costume changes was impressive and well thought out. I highly recommend this play to anyone looking for entertainment while being encouraged to think about and question how women -especially queer women or women who otherwise don’t fit a certain mould- are treated, and if it’s actually changed over the past 100 years."
    Georgia Snow