Dancers get ready for the "Red" set in the review “Feerie” at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France, July 3, 2018. For two performances every evening, 60 performers from 14 different countries twirl, kick and dance their way through the “Feerie” show, the review that is now the mainstay of the Moulin Rouge’s repertoire. But backstage – unseen by the 600,000 audience members who watch the show each year and quaff their way through nearly a quarter of a million bottles of champagne – is a different kind of choreography; the sophisticated machinery of costume changes and scenery-pulling needed to make the show happen. (Photo by Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)





Dancer Claudine Van Den Bergh, 27, puts on her make-up before entering the stage in the review “Feerie” at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France, June 12, 2018. Van Den Bergh has been dancing at the Moulin Rouge for seven years and has been Principal for three years. “At the moment I rush out to the backstage, I know exactly where to go, what to do, where my next costume is for the next part” she said. (Photo by Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)





Dancer Megan changes costume as she performs in the review “Feerie” at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France, July 3, 2018. Each show requires 1,000 outfits, all crafted in the workshops that have been supplying the Moulin Rouge for decades. Each dancer has to make between 10 and 15 costume changes per show, with about 90 seconds to complete each one before they have to be back out on stage. (Photo by Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)





Coach and dancer Audrey trains Isabelle during a rehearsal at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France, August 6, 2018. (Photo by Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)





Dancer Rylie tries on new Moulin Rouge outfits for the “Feerie” review with workshop owner Mine Verges in Paris, France, September 4, 2018. (Photo by Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)





A dancer performs in the review “Feerie” at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France, July 23, 2018. Pink and black thigh-high leather boots, with sequin decoration, hang from racks. Elaborate constructions which go over the dancer’s shoulders and create the illusion they have sparkling butterfly wings and ostrich feathers sprouting from their backs, sit in rows on tables. (Photo by Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)





Dancers rush in the backstage of the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France, September 20, 2019. (Photo by Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)





An employee pushes a trolley with champagne bottles in the cellar at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France, September 4, 2018. Just a few of the 250,000 bottles of fizz Moulin Rouge audiences get through per year. (Photo by Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)





Axelle streches as she warms up before performing the French Cancan at the “Feerie” review at the Moulin Rouge, in Paris, France, September 19, 2019. (Photo by Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)





Dancers Courtney and Lacie wait for their next set in the corridors of the Moulin Rouge as they perform in the review “Feerie” at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France, July 3, 2018. (Photo by Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)





Jessica, Shauna and Lauren attend a rehearsal at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France, August 6, 2018. (Photo by Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)





Dancer Courtney stands on a chair in her dressing room at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France, July 3, 2018. (Photo by Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)





French Cancan soloist Olga Khokhlova, a dancer from ex-Soviet Kazakhstan, performs at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France, July 4, 2018. Khokhlova has been at the Moulin Rouge for 12 years. “I love the adrenaline of the stage. The Moulin is a magical place where I live out my passion” she said. “When I’m on stage, I know that I am the inheritor of famous dancers who for 130 years have made the Moulin Rouge”. (Photo by Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)