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The can-can (also spelled cancan as in the original French /kɑ̃kɑ̃/) is a high-energy, physically demanding dance that became a popular music-hall dance in the 1840s, continuing in popularity in French cabaret to this day. [1] Originally danced by couples, it is now traditionally associated with a chorus line of female dancers. [2]
La Goulue (French pronunciation: [la guly], meaning The Glutton), was the stage name of Louise Weber (12 July 1866 – 29 January 1929), a French can-can dancer who was a star of the Moulin Rouge, a popular cabaret in the Pigalle district of Paris, near Montmartre. [1]
Can-Can is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and a book by Abe Burrows.The story concerns the showgirls of the Montmartre dance halls during the 1890s.. The original Broadway production ran for over two years beginning in 1953, and the 1954 West End production was also a success.
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]
On January 6, 1868, the company played at the Theatre Comique and premiered a new type of dance, billed as "...Grand Gallop Can-Can, composed and danced by Mlles. Morlacchi, Blasina, Diani, Ricci, Baretta,... accompanied with cymbals and triangles by the coryphees and corps de ballet." The new dance received an enthusiastic reception. [7]
The Cannes Film Festival has a pretty strict dress code -- including demanding actresses wear high heels -- but one stunning actress threw that all out the door on Thursday.
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 routine. Their dance is so enchanting that the American family decides to buy the male doll while the Russian family buys the female dancing doll.
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.