cancan

cancan
/kan"kan'/, n.
a lively high kicking dance that came into vogue about 1830 in Paris and after 1844 was used as an exhibition dance.
[1840-50; < F, repetitive compound (based on can) said to be nursery var. of canard duck; see CANARD]

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dance
 lively and risqué dance of French or Algerian origin, usually performed onstage by four women. Known for its high kicks in unison that exposed both the petticoat and the leg, the cancan was popular in Parisian dance halls in the 1830s and appeared in variety shows and revues in the 1840s. The cancan is in a lively 2/4 time and was at first danced to quadrille or galop music. Specific cancans were composed by Jacques Offenbach (Offenbach, Jacques) and other composers after about 1840. Later, the dance appeared in such works as Franz Lehar's operetta Die lustige Witwe (1905; The Merry Widow) and Cole Porter's musical comedy Can-Can (1953). It can also be seen in several films, including John Huston's Moulin Rouge (1952), a fictional account of the life of the artist perhaps most commonly associated with Montmartre, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de); Jean Renoir's classic French Cancan (1955); and Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! (2001).

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