Claudine Van Den Bergh Cooke, from Dublin, has danced her last can-can under the famous red windmill 💃 MoulinRouge
Moulin Rouge dancer 'so proud to have been the first Irish principal dancer'Claudine Van Den Bergh Cooke, from Dublin, became the first Irish principal dancer at the Moulin Rouge in ParisAfter achieving a first class honours law degree, she has left the iconic showClaudine Van Den Bergh Cooke, from Dublin, made history when she became the first Irish principal dancer in the famous Moulin Rouge in Paris.
Unsurprisingly for someone whose mother is a classical ballet teacher, Claudine caught the dancing bug early, starting out when she was just two. "That's an eight- minute dance. It's full of jumps, jump splits, cart wheels, somersaults, backwards walk overs, frontwards walk overs. "We're just very lucky to be here living our dream - and we hope that many more Irish dancers audition in the future," she told BBC News NI.
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