#5 | Fleur Copin: from Crazy Horse to music
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When I metFleur Copin at the studio in October 2022, she immediately impressed me with her uninhibited personality and her sharp style, a mix of Matrix and James Bond Girl.
Fleur draws her passion for classical dance from her childhood, inspired by her grandmother, a former star dancer at the Bolshoi in Moscow.
During her adolescence, she faced the changes in her body and saw her dream of joining the Opera fly away. Determined, she discovered the world of cabaret in Paris. From Macao in China, her path led her to the Crazy Horse, where she would shine for five years in numbers with evocative names such as "Laser", "Rougir" and "Miroir".
After ending her dancing career, Fleur decided to take on a new challenge in music this time. Today she releases her first EP, Pilotes , as a composer and performer.
In this episode, I invite you to discover her inspiring journey, which shines through her determination, her desire for freedom and her authenticity. Through her artistic choices and her positions, Fleur embodies, I find, a modern feminist vision, asserting her decision-making power over her life and her projects.
Margaux: Would you say that when you were younger, you were given the means to pursue your passion for classical dance?
Fleur: After high school, I wanted to be a classical dancer but my dear and loving dance teacher totally broke me into 1000 pieces by telling me that, since I had a butt and hips, I would never be a classical dancer.
Looking back, I was disappointed that no one told me that there was more to life than ballet. Cabaret didn't exist. Variety, television didn't exist. I feel like it was that or nothing. You couldn't make a career out of anything else. That's what I regret. No one ever pushed me to my limits.
I then enrolled in a musical comedy school in Le Mans. I barely stayed a year because it didn't suit me and I wanted to work. I went to Paris with my best friend Julien, I found a cabaret, I went to castings and I was accepted.
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Margaux: what do you like about cabaret?
Fleur: The power of seduction exerted by a woman's body. We are anchored in still very strong codes of what beauty should be. Not at the Crazy: there is such freedom that I had the right to express what I wanted on stage. With the girls, we call it the monster inside, a monster of desire, of power. You are on stage, and you have complete control over the situation. You control your sensuality, your body... And that is very strong.
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Margaux: What is your relationship with your body today?
I get along well with my body because I have no choice, I will stay with it until the end of my life. I also accepted that when you are a woman, your body changes. Now, I have a rather benevolent view. I do sports, I want to stay in shape, but I do it for me, not because I have to wear a bikini this summer.
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Margaux: You are releasing your first EP. What was your creative process? What did you want to put of yourself in these songs?
I'm 30 years old. I have a full career behind me. I'm very happy in my thirties. I feel free and I don't force myself to do anything anymore. I wanted to tell it in music. And in the EP, I didn't want to talk too much about a love story. I really wanted to talk in the lightness of my anxieties.
For example, Vent violent talks about my terrible alter ego who always pushes me to surpass myself. Later , it's the retrospective of my past life, the encounters I was able to have, the ideas I gave myself very young and very quickly. And Flemme , that's me!
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