What's the difference between cabaret and chanteuse?
Cabaret
Definition:
(n.) A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed.
(n.) a type of restaurant where liquor and dinner is served, and entertainment is provided, as by musicians, dancers, or comedians, and providing space for dancing by the patrons; -- similar to a nightclub. The term cabaret is often used in the names of such an establishment.
(n.) the type of entertainment provided in a cabaret{2}.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(2) If you want to watch cabaret’s great and good consuming one too many glasses of prosecco, Saturday night at the Soho Burlesque Club is the place to go.
(3) You couldn't get much more bohemian than the music playing in this room of tiny round tables, first French crooner Serge Gainsbourg and then cabaret freak Scott Walker wailing of their obelisk-size pain.
(4) This study enrolled 1,032 sexually active women attending social hygiene clinics in Panama City; clinic attendance is mandatory for women employed in houses of prostitution, bars, and cabarets.
(5) Various locations, Chicago, opens 3 October New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933 It’s 1920: the German Empire has crumbled, and Berlin is a city of cripples and crooks, communists and cabaret stars.
(6) • theglory.co Chosen by music, satire and cabaret duo Bourgeois and Maurice Soho Theatre Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Richard Davenport Soho has undergone so many facelifts in recent years, it has begun to take on traits of the ageing celebrity: plastic, shiny, hard to find the personality.
(7) • Savage is every Friday and Saturday at Metropolis Studios, London, from 4 March (tickets £5), savagedisco.com The Mighty Hoop-la Facebook Twitter Pinterest Skewering the type of weekender you’d usually associate with Butlins (Redcoats, awkward cabaret, warring families), The Mighty Hoop-la has gathered many of the best alternative club nights – including those on this list, except Torture Garden, Hip Hop Karaoke and Savage – and performance troupes for a festival dedicated to high camp, high energy and high-concept fun.
(8) • workersplaytime.net Chosen by Sink the Pink co-founders, Glynfamous (Glyn Fussell) and Amy Zing (Amy Redmond) Soho Burlesque Club Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Soho Burlesque Club Soho Burlesque Club – at the Hippodrome Casino – is a properly late-night cabaret experience.
(9) When Clarkson first met Barnett, she was still a jobbing dancer, performing cabaret shows in London and later working as backing dancer for singers including Kylie Minogue, Cheryl Cole and Jessie J, but “always doing music in some way, always writing”.
(10) Song and dance Cabaret singer Max Raabe is performing with his Palast Orchester on the eve of the final at Shepherd's Bush Empire, and promising "classics and newly discovered songs from the Weimar era" (though he also does a surprisingly good 1920s-themed version of Salt-n-Pepa's Let's Talk about Sex).
(11) Compered by the ventriloquist and standup comedian, it is billed as a mix of cabaret, burlesque, magic, musical comedy and circus performance.
(12) He presented cabaret in working men's clubs ("I adored those audiences, they'd always want to dance with me afterwards") and toured Europe, developing a strange hybrid of drag, mime and conventional song-and-dance.
(13) That same day Hunt could attend a bewildering array of fringe shows including the Smoke and Mirrors cabaret, Miles Jupp's cricket comedy Fibber in the Heat or the Traverse Theatre's Impossible Things Before Breakfast.
(14) We went onstage at that first gig to Tomorrow Belongs to Me from Cabaret .
(15) One downloadable track, High Beams , all found sounds and static, takes you forward into the past – it's like Cabaret Voltaire doing chillwave.
(16) It is a grisly conclusion to Harris's immensely long and hugely successful career, which began when he arrived in London from Perth in 1952 switching from art to cabaret and then children's TV.
(17) Photograph: Ambra Vernuccio Hackney Showroom is a DIY space that hosts cabaret, live art, variety, circus and performances: from Lasana Shabazz, Plains Plough, and the Disco Loco festival to weird bits of drag.
(18) Harris's career began when he arrived in London from Perth in 1952 and was diverted from a planned destiny in art through performing in cabaret and then children's TV.
(19) In the process he presents unimaginable people – as in Fata Morgana 's (1970) desert characters: the piano-playing madam and drum-playing begoggled pimp playing cabaret music in the Lanzarote brothel; the shellshocked Foreign Legion deserter clinging to a ragged letter from his mother; the lizard-loving German.
(20) And a lot of people thought he was gay - a lot of that is that cabaret part of showbusiness when you've got to camp it up.
Chanteuse
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) From an event in New York that was beamed to London and six other world cities and attended by RIM's founder Mike Lazaridis and chanteuse Alicia Keys, chief executive Thorsten Heins vowed BlackBerry would "lead the move to mobile computing".
(2) The snowman's quest is accompanied by a fey, irritating cover version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's The Power of Love , in which Holly Johnson is replaced by a breathy chanteuse whimpering at the piano like a dog that needs taking for a walk.
(3) If a German singer interpreting American rap about sex isn't enough for you, on 28 May chanteuse Ute Lemper will be interpreting Mexican poetry about sex at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
(4) She wasn't just some hapless wannabe, yet another pissed-up nit who was never gonna make it, nor was she even a ten-a-penny-chanteuse enjoying her fifteen minutes.
(5) A similar fate befalls B&Q's Christmas ad, which opts for a fey, irritating cover version of Our House by another breathy chanteuse.
(6) Not that Nick was ever exactly one to be motivated by a sense of “drive” or ego – there is the story of the time Françoise Hardy, who, as a winsome breathy chanteuse must have obviously been drawn to Drake’s similar, superiority-wrought style, phoned Island Records, more or less ordering Drake over to France to write songs for her.
(7) The show juxtaposes images of young musicians like indie soul man Curtis Harding and woozy chanteuse Clementine Creevy of Cherry Glazerr with more formal portraits of music legends including David Byrne, Keith Richards, Chuck Berry and, in his last sitting, Lou Reed.
(8) Since then it's been a parade of leading chanteuses, from X Factor winner Leona Lewis to ivory-tickler Alicia Keys, with even some rockers entering the fray.
(9) The other heavy hitters include Justin Timberlake's former boy-band, 'NSync , Britney Spears, R&B singer Usher, rockers Linkin Park and Creed, and the debut by chanteuse Norah Jones.
(10) He has seen off heroin and alcohol, and outlived his mentor Andy Warhol , heartbreak chanteuse Nico, and Velvet Underground guitarist Sterling Morrison.
(11) Composer Hans Zimmer has revealed that Inception's entire soundtrack, from the booming trombone theme to the strains of rising dread, originates from one of the chanteuse's most famous songs.
(12) Radio stations took the opportunity to dust off a track by the French chanteuse Barbara, which many say did as much to thaw postwar relations as the treaty.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sofi de la Torre – Vermillion Confession time: this song by Spanish chanteuse Sofi de la Torre (who lists her hobbies as making music and eating hamburgers) isn’t new.