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Saturday, 25 October 2014

Adrienne Bailon (American singer-songwriter, actress, dancer, TV personality)

* Adrienne Bailon rose to prominence as the lead vocalist of the American Disney group The Cheetah Girls (2003-2008). The group was made famous by the eponymous Disney Channel film and its sequels, The Cheetah Girls 2 and The Cheetah Girls: One World. The group released three studio albums, Cheetah-licious Christmas, In Concert: The Party's Just Begun Tour, and TCG and several RIAA certified Platinum albums including, The Cheetah Girls, The Cheetah Girls 2, and The Cheetah Girls: One World. The group has launched a clothing line, several perfume collections, doll lines, room decor, a book series, and a video games line. The Cheetah Girls group has sold over 3.6 million records worldwide.

Bailon has Leo rising ruled by an angular Sun in the first degree of Scorpio conjunct its ruler Pluto. Just goes to show that a Sun-Pluto personality can thrive in leadership of a feline entity. You don't have to play a lioness, tapping into the cheetah archetype will do!

NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART

BIRTH DATA: Adrienne Eliza Bailon, 24 October 1983, 00:10 (12:10 AM) EDT (+4), Manhattan, New York, USA (40n46, 73w59). ASC: 5 Leo. RR: A (from memory). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield cites an email from Kevin Cee quoting a Tweet and Instagram post by her on her birthday in 2014: "I was born today at 12:10am in The Lower East Side of NYC" https://twitter.com/Adrienne_Bailon/status/525498238821236736

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Sunday, 25 August 2013

Louie Spence (English dance expert, choreographer, television personality)

* Louie Spence is best known as the artistic director at the Pineapple Dance Studios. He was a professional dancer in his youth, performing in West End musicals including Cats and Closer to Heaven, although more recently, he has become known for his appearances in the Sky1 series Louie Spence's Showbusiness and appearing as a judge on the seventh series of Dancing on Ice.

Which are the dancing planets? Certainly Neptune — which rises in its own house in Spence's chart and rules his IC in the last degree of Pisces. And probably Jupiter — here ruling his Sagittarius Ascendant from the last degree of Virgo smack-bang on the MC.

Sunday, 7 July 2013

Jane Avril, 1868–1943 (French can-can dancer)

* Jane Avril was the extremely thin can-can dancer made famous by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec through his paintings. Nicknamed La Mélinite after an explosive ― because she was "given to jerky movements and sudden contortions" ― Avril had a detonative Mars-Pluto conjunction straddling her Descendant with Pluto opposite and ruling her Scorpio Ascendant. Nicole Kidman, the Australian actor nominated for an Oscar for her semi-fictionalized portayal of Avril in Baz Luhrmann's 2001 musical,Moulin Rouge!, also has a Gemini Sun and Scorpio rising.

WIKIPEDIA BIOGRAPHY

Jane Avril's mother was a courtesan and her absent father, allegedly, was a foreign aristocrat. Abused as a child, she ran away from home, and was eventually admitted to the Salpêtrière Hospital, with the movement disorder 'St Vitus' Dance' (now thought to be Sydenham's Chorea). Under the care of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot, the expert on "female hysterics" she received various kinds of treatment, and claimed in her biography that, when she discovered dance at a social dance for employees and patients at the hospital, she was cured. On leaving the hospital, after a failed romance, Jeanne thought to kill herself, but was taken in by the Madame of a Parisian brothel.

Working at whatever day jobs were available, at night she pursued a career in dancing by performing at local clubs. Using the stage name Jane Avril, she built a reputation that eventually allowed her to make a living as a full-time dancer. Hired by the Moulin Rouge nightclub in 1889, within a few years she headlined at the Jardin de Paris, one of the major café-concerts on the Champs-Élysées. To advertise the extravaganza, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted her portrait on a poster that elevated her stature in the entertainment world even further.

In 1895, the owners of the Moulin Rouge offered her a great deal of money to take on the risky task of replacing Louise Weber, the most famous dancer in Paris, known by her stage name as "La Goulue". Graceful, soft-spoken, and melancholic, Jane Avril gave a dance presentation that was the opposite of the very boisterous La Goulue. Nevertheless, the club's patrons adored her and she became one of the most recognizable names of the Parisian nightlife.

A woman of intelligence and with a sense of aloof grace, at age 42 she met and married the German artist, Maurice Biais (c.1875–1926), and the couple moved to a home in Jouy-en-Josas at the outskirts of Paris. However, her husband soon began to stray, often disappearing for days at a time, and for years she lived a miserable existence with the irresponsible Biais. Without any financial support following his death in 1926, Avril lived in near poverty on what little was left of her savings.

Jane Avril died in a seniors' home in 1943 at the age of 75. She was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.