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The can-can (also spelle cancan or Can Can) is regarded today primarily as a physically demanding music hall dance, performed by a chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes with long skirts, petticoats, and black stockings, harking back to the fashions of the 1890s. The main features of the dance are the lifting up and manipulation of the skirts, with high kicking and suggestive, provocative body movements.

Trivia about can-can

  • The French for "scandal" gave us the name of this high-kicking dance popular in music halls of the 19th century
  • In "La Boutique Fantasque", dolls come to life & perform this high-kicking, skirt-swooshing dance
  • 19th c. women exposed their petticoats when they did this naughty French dance also known as Le Chahut
  • Lively high-kicking dance(6)
  • Gwen Verdon kicked her way to fame doing this in the 1953 musical of the same name
  • Gwen Verdon kicked up her heels as Claudine in this classic Cole Porter musical named for a dance
  • First popular in Paris music halls around 1840 & considered vulgar, its name is French for "gossip"
  • I always get a kick out of this dance that's performed to the music heard here
  • It's what the ladies are doing in the print seen here
  • The name of this lively double-named dance might come from the French for "duck"
  • It's the once scandalous 19th century dance performed to the music heard here

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