[A feature to be found in the winter issue of the têtu· magazine, available at your newsstands or delivered to you by subscription.] Each month, Martin Dust’s Dust Cabaret invades Le Zèbre de Belleville, in Paris. A flamboyant reference to the genre for almost ten years.
“The best cabaret on Earth.” That’s at least what Martin Dust belts out at the opening of his show, propelled by a superb energetic rock quartet. Welcome to the Dust Cabaret, where artists make “revolution with slurping sounds” and send “a little glitter and a lot of anger”, as declared by the master of ceremonies, all in black. Devilishly effective, this opening refrain immediately establishes the show’s universe, both musically and visually.
Entrance features a zebra motif, red curtains of ritual, a retro décor made up of old carnival machines… Two weeks per month, Martin Dust and his crew take over the roughly 200-seat venue of the ardent and enigmatic Le Zèbre de Belleville, in Paris’s 11th arrondissement, for a moment of artistic sharing without borders. “If you need a village to raise a child, you surely need an entire backroom to keep a cabaret standing!” declares Martin Dust into the microphone during the acknowledgments. A backroom as warm as it is often full: recognition for someone who has worked in the cabaret world since his early teens and who finally opened his own show almost ten years ago.
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Sophie Brennan