This fervent cancan dance

It is generally accepted that the French cancan dance originated in the 30s of the 19th century in Paris at public balls. It originated from the English country dance, known in England in the 16th century.

Music for cancan

The version of this dance to the French came later. It was especially popular in the middle of the 19th century. First, the cancan dance was known as the quadrille version. Later, the society rejected him, considering it indecent. He began to dance in cafes, cabarets, operettas and all sorts of shows. For cancan, music should be fun, size should be aged 2/4.

The main elements of the dance are jumping, swinging legs, twine and waving skirts, which became more and more frantic towards the end of the dance, because of which the dancers' feet were bare in the lace underwear. Quite interesting is the dance of cancan. The photos of the girls dancing him attracted the attention of many.

Stages of popularity

Officially, the dance was born in 1858 on October 21 at the premiere of the operetta "Orpheus in Hell" by J. Offenbach. He wrote the most famous music for the cancan.

The next stage of his popularity was in 1890. Then Paris embraced the frenetic quadrille of the cabaret "Moulin Rouge". In 1889, on October 6, this legendary cabaret opened and space was created for this genre.

At the end of the second half of the 19th century, a single one gave an impetus to the birth of an erotic cabaret. Once the young graduates of the choreographic course in Paris celebrated the fall in the cafe dancing and champagne. They were joined by modists and models. During the dance, the girls began to undress. Half-naked, dancing on tables, they lifted their skirts and made several strokes with their feet. This was the beginning of a new genre - striptease. Since then, the French cancan dance has become the style of Montmartre.

Prohibition and approval

The dance with undress was for a long time forbidden in Europe. The severe condemnation of the depraved exposure was from the side of the church. But the noblemen at the feasts courtesans have repeatedly shown their charms.

When the Puritan time began to fade into the past, the cancan dance came to the world stage and became firmly established among the workers of Paris. At first it was performed in pairs. He was a version of the popular at that time canter, and pretty decent.

Soon the cancan dance moved to the cabaret stage, where the dancers made entertainment for him. In the "Moulin Rouge" performers came up with new dance steps. As a result, here was the final version of the indecent version.

Ups and downs

French dance itself was glorified by Celeste Mogado, who performed it in 1889 at the opening of the Moulin Rouge. She came up with the "real quadrille" in 1850. After 10 years, C. Morton, an Englishman who organized the first music hall, nicknamed it "French cancan." In England, he was considered too obscene and removed from the scene. However, on this side of the English Channel, the cancan dance settled and gained such popularity that Elizabeth II visited the performance in "Moulin Rouge" in 1981 on November 21.

Clothes for dance

Suit for cancan weighing not less than 10 kg, because only for the manufacture of the skirt takes about 100 meters of fabric. Shoes were considered the most difficult model. So that when the pirouettes are performed, the girls do not slide, the rubber is adhered to the sole with a thin layer. Heels were made thicker from pigskin skin and with a special bevel. However, after a couple of months of use, they were already worn out. The fact is that when performing twine, the main blow goes to the heel.

When performing the trick "tower", the performers of it require special shoes, otherwise when pulling the legs to the head by the heel, they can either injure the hand or spoil the costly costume. The tempo of the dance is frenzied, there's no caution.