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cancanHigh-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). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Chateau des Fleurs; there I shall find Oblonsky, songs, the cancan. In part it was a modest CANCAN, in part a step dance, in part a skirt-dance (so far as my tail-coat permitted), and in part original. Blase and inert, I spent my evenings generally at the Chateau des Fleurs, where I would get fuddled and then dance the cancan (which, in that establishment, was a very indecent performance) with eclat. |
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