CABARET - Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowels

We watched the film Cabaret as part of our research for this era as it was based on the book Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood and the focus of character Sally Bowles. The film gave an interesting and useful insight to Berlin at the time, including the horrific happenings of the Nazi attacks that were taking place. It also helped me to have an image of Sally Bowels in my head as I like how Liza Minnelli portrayed her character. I LOVED the film!


Burlesque

The film got me inspired to look at Burlesque as a lot of the dancing came from this idea. In the 1920's the 'Flapper girl' was invented. Sally bowels is a great example of the kind of women a Flapper girl would be considered to be. Someone who smokes, drinks, parties and treats sex like its casual wearing short dresses, beaded hats and with bob haircuts. It was usually curvier larger women who were burlesque dancers, which relates to the idea of diversity in this project.

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