How To Use Cancan In A Sentence
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Is it mere coincidence that the most representative Parisian dance is called the cancan?
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Entertainment includes cancan dancers and the music of Jerry Atwood and Sharon Montgomery.
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It clearly depicted a little boy and a slightly bigger woman dancing the cancan and every once in a while kissing a little.
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This night his tiny fingers made shadows that turned into a line of kicking cancan dancers on the curtain fabric.
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Fancy abandoned the cancan for the Charlie Brown theme song.
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The big numbers included, of course, the cancan, but also a Viennese waltz scene with the dancers in flowing ballroom gowns and a big, big finale, with ostrich-plume headwear and sequinned costumes.
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Opening June 1 nationwide and slated to kick off next month's Cannes Film Festival, Moulin Rouge stars Nicole Kidman and depicts the cancan and cabaret world of Paris in 1899.
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A sprightly Cancan performance by a Russian team and the graceful ballet movements of the Vladimir-Natasha duo had the audience spell-bound.
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Women have been condemned for dancing the cancan and the waltz.
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Just as naked as the day I was born, in front of a huge audience and eight super-attractive cancan dancers.
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Founded in 1932, the Bluebell Girls are one of the last remaining companies to dance the traditional cancan, with its flying kicks and punishing splits.
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Another historic reference is made in Act III where the Neapolitan Dance becomes a cancan.
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For example, when straightening your legs in cancan or crisscross, imagine reaching your toes as far away from you as you can, as if to touch an imaginary wall.
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No expense is spared in an elaborate opening cancan number that makes an anachronistic use of today's popular music.
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Ben Nicolodi, the male solo dancer in the cancan, was an acrobat when he first entered the club.
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The cancan, that high kicking, exuberant dance of showgirls, originated in Le Moulin Rouge during the 1890s.
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This arena, inaccessible to the public for 145 years, now hosts a miscellany of events, from cancan dancers to choirs and theatre festivals.
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The Bluebell Girls - one of the last remaining companies to dance the traditional cancan - still perform at the Lido, on the Champs-Elysees.
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After dinner du Maurier and Barty sang capital songs of the quartier latin, and told stories of the atelier, and even danced a kind of cancan together -- an invention of their own -- which they called "_le dernier des Abencerrages_.
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The word "cancan" in French means "scandal," and the high-kicks and lifting and tossing of skirts did scandalize
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The colours on her paintbrushes merged into her cancan dress, giving it a tie-dye appearance.
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I mean, who knew that the French cancan had revolutionary roots, and the dance is coded, physically coded?
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The author juxtaposes the earthy unbound cancan dancer of the Folies Bergére and Moulin Rouge to the Romantic Era ideal of the pale tightly corseted woman of ‘normal ‘society.’
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But his most impactful display here must surely have been the unofficial exhibition that took place in the London streets when his cheeky posters for touring troupes of French cancan dancers were pasted up.
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From the riot of colour of the cancan dancers' skirts, to the outrageous gear worn by Toulouse-Lautrec, costume creates visual excitement.
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Assuming center stage like a troupe of cancan dancers, they expose enormous legs beneath vibrant, Pucci-patterned miniskirts that recall Nixon-era fashions.
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And in that light he saw an amazingly beautiful rainbow, like a line of multicolored, high-kicking cancan dancers at the Moulin Rouge in Paris in 1909.
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Red Picotee, a scarlet variety with a white fringe, makes me think of the cancan, all high spirits and to hell with good taste.
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The colours on her paintbrushes merged into her cancan dress, giving it a tie-dye appearance.
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The cancan, that high kicking, exuberant dance of showgirls, originated in Le Moulin Rouge during the 1890s.
