| Ben Nicolodi, the male solo dancer in the cancan, was an acrobat when he first entered the club. |
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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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| Another historic reference is made in Act III where the Neapolitan Dance becomes a cancan. |
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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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| Entertainment includes cancan dancers and the music of Jerry Atwood and Sharon Montgomery. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| There were sketches featuring priests dancing the cancan and stories of desperate, gin-drinking nuns. |
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| Before a ninth statue towering above a fountain can do the same, the other eight do a frenzied dance similar in style to the cancan. |
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| France's leading cancan choreographer explains the defiant origins of the country's most famous dance. |
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| This portrayal of a wild cancan shows the dance when it began, on the city's working-class fringe. Montmartre included. |
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| Women have been condemned for dancing the cancan and the waltz. |
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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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| In Paris the all-female cancan became the rage. |
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| Balloons were strewn across the show space and the audience was treated to a coven of Courtney Love lookalikes in sateen baby-doll dresses applying lipstick and dancing the cancan. |
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| Love and humour blend in this repertoire of French song with hints of opera, Quebec favorites and a bit of nostalgia sprinkled with French cancan. |
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| During that time, the cabaret has created an excellent reputation for itself, on the international market of dinner and shows, and that of revues thanks to its dancers, costumes and its famous French cancan. |
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| In later years, he headed out to the Yukon Territory, where he dealt cards, prospected for gold, ran riverboats, and m.c.'d the cancan show at Diamond Tooth Gertie's casino. |
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| Though this film is frillier than a cancan petticoat, it's impossible not to be turned on by its charm, its lure of decadence, romance and pure escapism. |
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| The latest issue of Washingtonian magazine includes a picture of the presidential candidate doing the cancan with Tri Delt sorority sisters in Iowa. |
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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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| Flyweight boxer Nicola Adams took on the fight of her life at London's ExCel to beat China's world number one Ren Cancan. |
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| She went on to defeat Chinese boxer and world number one Ren Cancan in the final to claim the first Olympic women's boxing Gold medal in history. |
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