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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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Two-hour sessions in can-can dancing will be held at The Centurion Bar, in the city centre, starting from 7pm, on Wednesday, November 26.
High kicking fun and frolics by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Byline: EDITED BY FIONA PARKER Q WHY is the can-can so-called?
Question Time by The Mirror (London, England)
Can-can dancers show a bit of leg on stage in Warwick last night; RM291107FAIR5 FAIRGROUND ATTRACTION.
Victorian values... WARWICK LIGHTS UP ++ by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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