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May 31, 2012 The Chinese Screen is failing, and falling into the hands of his creditors. He will open a new theater, and revive the can-can, an old-fashioned dance from the 1870s, renaming the 'French Cancan' as a strategy to make it sound more exotic-not to the French, but, as we see on opening night, to American tourists and Russian sailors. CAN-CAN / The cancan is a high-energy, physically demanding dance which became a popular music hall dance in the 1840s, continuing in popularity in French cabaret to this day. The name cancan may be derived from the French for tittle-tattle or scandal.
Jacqués Offenbach's GaIlop From Orpheus ln The Underworld is definitely the tune most connected with the Cán-Can The cán-can (even more correctly but much less commonly not hyphenated, as in the first German:cáncan) is a high-energy and bodily demanding songs hall dancing, traditionally performed by a refrain line of feminine dancers who wear costumes with long dresses, petticoats, and dark stockings. The primary features of the dancing are the raising up and adjustment of the dresses, with high kicking and suggestive… read more
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