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cancan

High-kicking stage dance in fast duple time (2/4) for women (solo or line of dancers), originating in Paris, France, about 1830. The music usually associated with the cancan is the galop from Jacques Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers/Orpheus in the Underworld (1858).



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