Life in Paris as a Moulin Rouge dancer

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Meet Allie Goodbun, a Canadian dancer at the iconic Moulin Rouge in Paris.

She talks of how she got the job, her life in Montmartre, and her love for the City of Light.

Want to join the fun on Allie's social media? You can find her on TikTok here and Instagram here - and here's the link to her new clothing brand for Ready Freddie dancewear.

Here's a snippet of this very podcast episode on her Tik Tok channel.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Fun episode coming up with the Earful Tower. My name is Oliver G, your host,
0:05.0	and I interview people in Paris who have stories to tell, who do interesting things. Today's
0:11.4	guest is a great example of that. It is Ali Goodbun, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge. She's been
0:17.5	there for two and a half years from Canada, and she shares with us what
0:22.0	it's like to do that job, what it's like to live in MoMart, and also what it's like to have an
0:26.8	exceptionally engaging and popular social media following too. Ali Goodbun is her name, dancing is her game.
0:35.3	Let me introduce her to you here on the Earful Tower podcast, brought to you by very generous
0:41.6	Patreon supporters from around the world.
0:44.9	Thanks very much to all the supporters.
0:46.6	Let's get into the episode.
0:48.7	Here we go.
0:49.2	Thank you. Allie Goodman. How you doing? I'm good. Thanks. How are you? I put a dramatic pause there for no reason whatsoever.
1:09.3	I'm speaking of drama. Yeah.
1:11.3	Moulin Rouge.
1:12.1	A lot of drama.
1:14.6	So what's your, I mean, you've been there for a couple years now.
1:17.9	Yeah, it's been two and a half years.
1:19.5	Okay.
1:19.9	And that's going to be one of the first topics.
1:21.7	But first, welcome to the Earful Tower podcast.
1:24.6	Thank you.
1:25.2	I was going through our chat thread. We've been talking
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