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A well-known can-can occurs at the finale of the "Dance of the Hours" from the opera La Gioconda by Amilcare Ponchielli. French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec produced several paintings and a large number of posters of can-can dancers. Other painters of the can-can included Georges Seurat, Georges Rouault, and Pablo Picasso. [17]
New customers arrive, a Russian family, and everyone welcomes them. Five Cossack dolls enter and perform a traditional dance, followed by an animal act featuring two dancing poodles. [8] Then the shop-keeper introduces his most sophisticated dancing dolls, a pair of can-can dancers, a flashly-dressed man and girl, come in and perform their ...
The can-can production is the best I've ever seen. An Adam-and-Eve, snake-and-apple dance drama, is performed with high style, and the choreography is imaginative. Shirley MacLaine has a chance to demonstrate that she really can dance, in her role as Eve. Juliette Prowse dances as a wonderfully slinky, slithery serpent. [16]
When the can-can dancers appear (entering through the audience, as at the real Folies Bergère) and dance, she retreats behind the bar again. When La Goulue does her turn, Valentin becomes besotted with her, breaking the heart of the barmaid, who, after everyone has left and the cleaner starts her work, finally resumes the pose of Manet's painting.
The can-can, spelled cancan in French and pronounced kãkã, is an acrobatic form of the quadrille. Popular in French music halls and cabarets throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century, it derived from the chahut, a rowdy dance performed at public ballrooms by students, working girls, and young clerks. [6]
This Swiss electronic/dance duo enjoyed several hits before “Oh Yeah” became ubiquitous thanks to its use in the “steal Dad’s priceless Ferrari” scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ...
At its conclusion, a troupe of can-can dancers enters, led by a Dancing Master. They dance a lively can-can with the traditional high kicks, dizzying spins, whirling turns, and much display of ruffled skirts, black garters, and frothy white underthings. At the height of the ensuing merriment, everyone joins in a boisterous ballabile.
“Bryan, I can’t sleep.” And him being like, “OK, sleep on the floor. You can pull out your sleeping bag.” It was comforting to be there with him. Bryan could always sleep so easy. I’d have to be 8 or 9. I moved into his room after he went to college. In his bedroom, the walls were covered with pictures of girls.