Cancan

A revised and updated edition of a book originally published in hardback in 1998, Cancan! tells you all about the famous high-kicking chorus-line stage dance. This new paperback edition has lots more photographs, including more in color, and interviews with dancers in five countries who have made the cancan their specialty. Discover what the cancan means to them: its empowering nature, the excitement of the performance, the glamour of the costumes, the sense of history--and the downright outrageousness and provocativeness of the spectacle. The book covers the history of the dance, from its earliest appearance in the 1830s as a spontaneous dance by MEN through its evolution over the next 100 years into the choreographed show-stopper we know today. Also included are chapters on the music, the paintings (not just Toulouse-Lautrec!) and the films in which the cancan has appeared.