Morocco Travel Information

Growing controversy in Morocco about the new disco opened a few months ago in the city of Marrakech, particularly in relation to movements of dancers and dancers and dress. Turning the debate on the nightclub "Folie's de Marrakech" to big newspapers and international media, most recently "The Wall Street Journal", which saw it as something problematic for economic and cultural globalization.

The idea of opening the club back when it decided to close down Claude Thomas comedy known in Paris two years ago, and carried to Morocco, a Muslim country, but enjoy a degree of openness.

Thomas said: "In France we killed Epoar passion," referring to the anti-smoking regulations and labor law.

He added: "It was a must to come to Morocco."

Thomas and opened in June the club, which includes a seat in 1000, and is trying, and according to the "appropriate art of cabaret with the French Muslim public."

Local culture did not prevent Thomas from the "faith" his idea, although the import of the Western model of the cabaret, where performers accept the dancers on stage, or when the dancers tend Tnanerhn, is very strange in the eastern Muslim.

And immediately recognized the Director of Tourism Council in Marrakech, Abdul Rahim Bin doctor, that the opening of the club is a "terrible mistake", where did not think "we need this kind of offer."

And tried to comfort investors in the field often to bring such offers to Morocco, but failed to hold eighties, especially the Task Force "Bluebell Girls" which moved from Paris to a hotel in Marrakech, but did not continue its work only half a year only.

Thomas previously that the GAP Pfergueth corners of the globe from Tokyo to Las Vegas, before deciding to cut it relates to France, where is obliged "to pay the dancers, dancers of the time it takes to put powder on their faces, especially with the law of thirty-five hours."

Thomas argues, 49 years, about $ 600 dancers and dancers per month, half the pay of their counterparts in France.

The dancers umbrage Thomas asked them to fly Zqounam and chests, and wear tight clothes highlight the details of the "very warm" of the body, saying, "We are Muslims and Muslims do not."

Thomas and his style of line with their requests, where they were allowed to wear clothes more prudish and chests more "Charara."

The key paragraph in the presentation, Vtstojb dancers to lift their heads on their female colleagues, to see thighs and directed them.

In France, dancers wearing underwear and other exciting dancers, which made the Moroccan Chddn to wear long black clothes do not reveal their bodies.

On one occasion, the designer dances Santiago Martinez, the dancers put their hands on their heads, but they refused because it is not acceptable to Muslims "as it embodiment of the Red Cross.

Therefore, the designer asked them to submit their hands in the air, and light Bastdarp only.

He also rejected dancer kiss on the cheek dancing, which prompted Thomas to persuade him, having been offered pictures of the Beijing Games opening ceremony, stressing the need for the movement might be just a natural act, to end up Balracs to accept it.

After crossing the parents feared the reputation of their daughters, whom he invited Thomas to attend the exercises, where the daughter of one of them to withdraw the offer, as quoted by "The Wall Street Journal" on Thomas.

Dancers also expressed concern about the community that they consider an immoral to Zkorthm, one of whom said, he worked in a hangar building in Casablanca, the former colleagues taunt him after becoming professional dancers, because they are not able to understand this.

At the opening of the club, Thomas wore leather clothes, and stood on stage in the face of a giant heart burning, resulting in a famous song from the French rock group.


Subsequently, a Knight wearing Arab clothing long red, the color of Marrakech, riding a horse and trying to save a girl from inside a cage.

The ceremony was attended by 1,000 spectators, but that has changed now that does not attend the recent Omsyate only a few dozen.

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