Show & Tell: Meet Daizy Blu of ‘Crazy Horse Paris’

Q: When did you start dancing?

A: I started when I was 12 years old, in ballet.

Q: What attracted you to it?

A: At the beginning, what I liked was the costume and the (sequins). ... (It was) bodies doing like incredible things, and to dance with a partner. So I passed an audition at the conservatory.

Q: Were you thinking of a career at that point?

A: Yes. The conservatory, when I came, they said, "Are you here to be a dancer or are you here just to enjoy?" They made you feel like, "If you are just here to enjoy, we're not going to care about you." So I was like "I want to be a dancer! I will be!" (Laughs.)

Q: How long were you there?

A: Age 12 to 21. Then I was in a company at the school when I was 21. But I wanted a new life, and a friend of mine called me and said, "There is this audition you should go to," and I went there. It was this cabaret show.

Q: How long did you perform there?

A: Four years. Then I auditioned at the Crazy Horse in Paris.

Q: Crazy Horse is famous. Did you feel any pressure?

A: Yes. There was a lot more pressure because the audience is closer. You look at faces. I had to learn a new way to act with my face onstage.

Q: Was it weird to see people's faces?

A: For me, it wasn't weird. What is weird is that the people think we can't see them (laughs). And when they realize we can see them, they start to look at the floor or something else.

Q: Are Crazy Horse audiences in Las Vegas different than Crazy Horse audiences in Paris?

A: Yes, I would say, because we have a lot of tourists. When they express themselves, they are really screaming.

Q: So Paris audiences are more reserved?

A: Yes.

Q: And Las Vegas audiences are ...

A: Expressive (laughs).

Q: When you go home on your summer break, what will you tell dancers there about Las Vegas?

A: What I like here is everything you can do here. I can go skiing, I can go to the sea, I can go to Los Angeles, I can do a lot of other things. People are, like, "Oh, it's just casinos and people playing all day." No, you can do a lot of things.

Q: Is there anything you'd like to do here that you haven't done yet?

A: I know it's crazy, but in France you cannot do it as easy as here: I would like to (gestures as if shooting a gun). I would just like to try that (laughs). That is impossible to do in France.