Holiday Wish List - Blu-Ray of French Cancan

If you haven't finished making your holiday wish list, here's something
else you might want to include:

http://whitecitycinema.com/2010/11/22/sacre-blu/

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Re: Book Review - Cancan! by David Price (2d ed.)

By the way. I failed to mention that David has a Facebook page for the
book, with pictures and comments from those who have read it, including
some of our own members. So, if you are interested, pay a visit and
leave a comment. The link is:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cancan/162381090468804

Barbebleu

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Many of our members are already familiar with the book, "Cancan!" authored by our member and friend David Price. I've just had the pleasure of reading the second edition of the book and can report that it's a great read again, with enough new material to merit your consideration. If you haven't had the pleasure yet, this is a must have for the cancan fan. Five stars!

This is the book on the cancan, covering all aspects of the dance in a delightfully readable way, while not sacrificing historical accuracy. David has made a detailed study of the cancan as it has evolved through the years from its shadowy beginnings as a strictly amateur participatory dance in which men dominated, to its development by the earliest female practitioners of the art, through the Second Empire to its flowering as an entertainment in the Belle Époque. The story continues with the evolution of the cancan in the Twenties into the form we know it today, through the Twentieth Century to the present day.

The book covers the treatment of the cancan as a dance, of course, but also in art, on the stage, in film and in amateur participatory settings too. The dramatis personae of the cancan are all here from Celeste Mogador, Finette and Rigolboche, to La Goulue, Jane Avril, Grille d'Egout and Nini-Patte-en-l'Air, all the way to present day dancers. David gives us a tour of the famous and not so famous venues where the cancan was performed - the Bal Mabille, the Moulin Rouge, the Bal Tabarin and a dozen more you've either not heard of or barely heard mentioned. He follows the ups and downs of the cancan’s popularity through its life as an art form. He shows how it has survived prudes, Prussians and the politically correct, to re-emerge to delight and excite new generations of dancers and audiences. The book also includes a number of entertaining and informative sidebars full of interesting facts about the cancan, and it dispels a number of myths and misconceptions (for example, sans culottes performances were largely, but not entirely, an urban legend - it depended upon when and where you saw it performed). As befits an authoritative book, it contains an extensive bibliography, a good index and a list of websites of interest

The second edition has been enlivened by the addition of numerous photos of dancers, including those of a number of currently active dance groups, and includes a new section devoted to giving a view of the dance from a performer's perspective. One thing that emerges is that it is as exhilarating for the performers as for the audience. Maybe that accounts for its durability.

If you are fan of the cancan or just curious about it, you can't find a better source. You can enjoy it as a read, as a reference book, a picture book, and as a nice conversation piece for your coffee table, or you can give it as a present for someone who would enjoy it. It's definitely worth the fairly modest price.

It can be purchased through Amazon in the US at:

www.amazon.com/Cancan-David-Price/dp/0956671101/

or in the UK at:

www.amazon.co.uk/Cancan-David-Price/dp/0956671101

You can also obtain it directly from David (and preview a few of the pictures) at his site:

www.frenchcancan.co.uk

Barbebleu

Links 11-24-10 (Barbebleu)

Getting things started off right:

http://www.pbase.com/phantasee/cancan

http://fiestadays.homestead.com/Can-Can_Girls_op_451x600.jpg

http://www.soundinmotionstudio.com/index_files/Page311.htm

http://www.cancanboheme.co.uk/html/instruction.htm

http://www.examiner.com/performing-arts-in-denver/bawdy-operetta-orpheus\
-the-underworld-perfect-genre-for-historic-opera-house-central-city

http://www.bachlertal.de/bachler_fasching/2009_10/start14nov.html

http://www.bachlertal.de/foto/bff2010_2/index.html

http://www.bachlertal.de/foto/bff2010_3/index.html

http://www.barynya.com/barynya/images/aliaksandr_anatska_01.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/03/article-0-088D0DB6000005DC-925\
_634x352.jpg

http://pktheatre.com/opera/Merry%20WidowCount%20Danilo%20and%20grisettes\
%20345c%20-%2010.JPG

http://reality.carlan.co.uk/~canada/merrywidow11.htm

http://www.haller-kreisblatt.de/hk-templates/nachrichtendetails/datum/20\
08/08/18/arien-im-einklang-mit-allerlei-gaumenfreuden/

http://www.wklos.org.uk/Photos/Merry%20Widow%202004/Les%20Grisettes.jpg

http://www.burystedmundsoperatic.co.uk/2008_merry_widow.htm

http://i.ebayimg.com/12/!B2MqQLQCWk~$(KGrHqIOKnME)5TBJzTgBMhiKyrncg~~_12\
.JPG

http://pujcovna-kostymy.com/pujcovna/damske-historicke-kostymy/od-roku-1\
930-po-rok-1990/kankanove-saty-041/

(Keep hitting the forward arrow until you run out of costumes of
interest)

http://img.mimishop.cz/h/ms/854/0/0917/a1466069.jpg

http://img.mimishop.cz/h/ms/854/4/0917/e620636.jpg

http://images54.fotki.com/v544/filebxmE/23842/1/43871/8939217/P1160730.j\
pg

http://www.pbase.com/webman06/0211072

Some additional "Gold in the Hills" links:

http://mcalnan.fotki.com/theatre_photos/gold_in_the_hills/

(Cancan photos in 3/12, 3/20, 3/26, 7/16, 7/17, 7/23, 7/30 and 7/31 sets
of photos)

http://republika.pl/blog_zg_524812/932485/tr/kankan.jpg

http://www.net.hr/2009/08/31/0450007.42.jpg

http://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/tesko-ozljeden-prilikom-sjece-sume-clanak\
-10239

http://www.tiara-show.ru/17.html

http://www.szalagavato.hu/ruha-ismerteto?i=122

http://papaimusicalstudio.hu/images/1999/slides/1999_kan_kan.jpg

Closing with several marvelous photos of Spolek Elegantnich Dam of the
Czech Republic:

http://www.sternberk.eu/admin/upload/foto-documents/46b7dcf15a1bc55bf2b4\
2bc7dda2ec98-big.jpg

http://www.sternberk.eu/admin/upload/foto-documents/81ef8ca98653c075b04a\
df05d3fc03e5-big.jpg

http://www.fascinum.eu/umelci/11.jpg

Barbebleu

Happy Holidays

Cancan images for various holidays

Sisters under the Skin

 

A kind soul has posted the classic documentary, "Sisters under the
Skin", at You Tube in three parts under the title, "The Suffolk Cancan
Girls". This features Les Fifis Farfelues, whose sites are:

http://www.cancandancers.co.uk and http://www.myspace.com/lesfifisfarfelues/


The You Tube links are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXdZsroeRNQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZLQ-G3Ra1o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrlSTK_TuKw

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Trn v Oku - Czech Republic

This versatile long time favorite dance group from the Czech Republic
has a Facebook page, with lots of cancan photos and a few videos too:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Trn-v-oku/101818505964

For example:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=457542050964&set=a.457542025964.2\
61623.101818505964#!/photo.php?fbid=457542800964&set=a.457542025964.2616\
23.101818505964&pid=6256269&id=101818505964

Here's a related site promoting their cancan show:

http://www.kankan-charleston.cz/fotogalerie.html

And, to round things out, here's a photo page from the site of a
restaurant/club at which they performed that was linked on the Facebook
page:

http://elmagico.cz/Photoalbum_contents.aspx?Albumid=165


Since Trn v Oku will be updating the Facebook page from time to time,
you might want to bookmark it for future reference.

By the way, in case you are curious like I was, the online translation
of Trn v Oku came back as "Thorn in the eye". Ouch!

Barbebleu

Links 11-18-10 (Barbebleu)

Miscellaneous Links


http://sites.google.com/site/danserlavie/danse-les-differentes-danses-ma\
-filmotheque-peintures-tableaux/sommaire-rubrique-danse/cancan

http://brown-n-roll.skyrock.com/

http://freedancers.skyrock.com/2597601954-FESTIVAL-COUNTRY-FAMECK-Articl\
e-1.html

http://www.randals-bison.com/quoideneuf2008.html

http://www.winamax.com/img/coverage/EPT_Dortmund2009/Day1A/P3102238.JPG

http://www.winamax.com/img/coverage/EPT_Dortmund2009/Day1A/P3102227.JPG

http://www.agencegala.com/heleneclermont/danse.htm

http://www.djzap.fr/music-hall.htm

http://www.lagalerierouchon.com/gd.php?image=images/produits/lido-2w4_.j\
pg&res=500&type=h&watermark=Jacques Rouchon

http://a.acteurfete.eu/photos/0004/6174/cancan_gallery.JPG

http://www.le-diamantrouge.com/photos/danseuses5.jpg

http://www.le-diamantrouge.com/photos/ALICEISABELLE.JPG

http://www.soirees-a-paris.com/images/cabaret/belle_epoque/belle_epoque_\
3.jpg

http://s1.e-monsite.com/2009/07/21/09/92422093french-cancan-jpg.jpg

http://www.lesdarlings.com/rubrique,spectacles-darlings-realises,284082.\
html

http://www.acteurfete.ch/annuaire/les-sweety-girls-spectacle-cabaret-sho\
w-moderne-soiree-evenementielle-mariage-soiree-a-theme-et-danses-du-mond\
e--2?f=fr

http://www.p24.fr/BA%20123/French%20cancan.JPG

http://www.stephanesaintmartin.fr/ssm/ssm_images/Can-can.jpg

http://allolestradeenfete.fr/imagesplus/cancanneuse-6.jpg

http://allolestradeenfete.fr/chippendales-strip-revue-danseuses.html

http://picasaweb.google.com/estherpierrick/DawsonCityOuLaRUEEVERSLORDePi\
errickEtEsther#

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:kXeDo0XqZeUz2M:http://www.e-voyageur.\
com/paris/cabaret/paradis-latin/images/cancan-paradis-latin-ok-ok.jpg&t=\
1

http://www.sudouest.fr/2010/08/07/la-fete-bousculee-155803-2152.php

http://a.acteurfete.eu/photos/0012/0310/IMG_0702_robe_cancan_gallery.JPG

http://ce.img.v4.skyrock.net/cef/rogerdegreef/pics/1108271066_small.jpg

http://www.midilibre.com/img/photos/biz/2010-08/2010-08-25/699_Y704MER23\
974_1.jpg

http://www.legrandjournal.com.mx/actu-mexique/diner-de-gala-de-lalliance\
-de-xalapa-une-celebration-de-lamitie-franco-mexicaine

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/217/7/f/cancan_by_saraelizabethal\
len.jpg

http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=cancan&order=5&offset=24#/d2uxeau

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/148/4/7/La_Tarte_by_theFishWhispe\
rer1.jpg

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/146/c/3/Be_happy__let__s_dance_by\
_miseltoe.jpg

http://alkoreiel.deviantart.com/gallery/

http://twitpic.com/11klz0/full

http://twitpic.com/1zggq3

http://twitpic.com/1k0bb8

http://twitpic.com/2w2ky

http://twitpic.com/16dmm3/full

http://twitpic.com/2dsz4a

http://twitpic.com/2cj339

http://twitpic.com/1rk0uj

http://twitpic.com/2aijqv/full

http://twitpic.com/gprxo

http://twitpic.com/23ci1b

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=192886&id=48883311325

(Photos from the above event, I think - includes some topless photos)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fia_zappala/4832251664/

http://i.ebayimg.com/19/!Bv!G!2!!Wk~$(KGrHqYOKjoEvN4,4eNlBMC0)bzPMw~~_12\
.JPG

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_gI1ie_eF8FY/Sc0rvAPchSI/AAAAAAAAEJ8/4OfiBIFZ7VM/P1\
010431.JPG

http://173.12.230.43/ae957.jpg

(One, two, buckle my shoe. Three, four ... my spirits soar")

Barbebleu

Book Review - Cancan! by David Price (2d ed.)

Many of our members are already familiar with the book, "Cancan!" authored by our member and friend David Price. I've just had the pleasure of reading the second edition of the book and can report that it's a great read again, with enough new material to merit your consideration. If you haven't had the pleasure yet, this is a must have for the cancan fan. Five stars!

This is the book on the cancan, covering all aspects of the dance in a delightfully readable way, while not sacrificing historical accuracy. David has made a detailed study of the cancan as it has evolved through the years from its shadowy beginnings as a strictly amateur participatory dance in which men dominated, to its development by the earliest female practitioners of the art, through the Second Empire to its flowering as an entertainment in the Belle Époque. The story continues with the evolution of the cancan in the Twenties into the form we know it today, through the Twentieth Century to the present day.

The book covers the treatment of the cancan as a dance, of course, but also in art, on the stage, in film and in amateur participatory settings too. The dramatis personae of the cancan are all here from Celeste Mogador, Finette and Rigolboche, to La Goulue, Jane Avril, Grille d'Egout and Nini-Patte-en-l'Air, all the way to present day dancers. David gives us a tour of the famous and not so famous venues where the cancan was performed - the Bal Mabille, the Moulin Rouge, the Bal Tabarin and a dozen more you've either not heard of or barely heard mentioned. He follows the ups and downs of the cancan’s popularity through its life as an art form. He shows how it has survived prudes, Prussians and the politically correct, to re-emerge to delight and excite new generations of dancers and audiences. The book also includes a number of entertaining and informative sidebars full of interesting facts about the cancan, and it dispels a number of myths and misconceptions (for example, sans culottes performances were largely, but not entirely, an urban legend - it depended upon when and where you saw it performed). As befits an authoritative book, it contains an extensive bibliography, a good index and a list of websites of interest

The second edition has been enlivened by the addition of numerous photos of dancers, including those of a number of currently active dance groups, and includes a new section devoted to giving a view of the dance from a performer's perspective. One thing that emerges is that it is as exhilarating for the performers as for the audience. Maybe that accounts for its durability.

If you are fan of the cancan or just curious about it, you can't find a better source. You can enjoy it as a read, as a reference book, a picture book, and as a nice conversation piece for your coffee table, or you can give it as a present for someone who would enjoy it. It's definitely worth the fairly modest price.

It can be purchased through Amazon in the US at:

www.amazon.com/Cancan-David-Price/dp/0956671101/

or in the UK at:

www.amazon.co.uk/Cancan-David-Price/dp/0956671101

You can also obtain it directly from David (and preview a few of the pictures) at his site:

www.frenchcancan.co.uk

Barbebleu

Links 11-7-10 (Barbebleu)

Miscellaneous Links

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Skoh-lE8sO0/SyHv2YrPKqI/AAAAAAAAVBg/flLz1h_FZF\
s/s400/Mollee+Nathan+Can+CAn.jpg

http://sharronmarshall.blogspot.com/2006/05/cancan-les-folies.html

http://www.hotpep.com/dancers.html

http://www.capitalcitydancestudio.com/Portals/21/Photos/cancan.jpg

http://www.capitalcitydancestudio.com/DesktopModules/Gallery/Image.aspx?\
tabid=4444&mid=8150&path=&currentitem=12&mode=&zoomindex=3&rotate=0&flip\
x=0&flipy=0&color=0

http://www.capitalcitydancestudio.com/DesktopModules/Gallery/Image.aspx?\
tabid=4444&mid=8150&path=&currentitem=11&mode=&zoomindex=3&rotate=0&flip\
x=0&flipy=0&color=0

http://www.partycreationsla.com/Dance_Shows_for_private_and_corporate_ev\
ents_files/CnCn.jpg

http://www.francescaleigh.com/photo_galleries/group_photo_gallery.html

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs333.snc4/41788_1075817926\
33516_8199_s.jpg

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107581792633516&ref=mf

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Can-Cannibals-Dance-Troupe/15983055427\
6?v=photos

http://www.myspace.com/thefrenchkicks

http://www.showbizfriends.com/plugins/p2000_image_gallery/images/4003.jp\
g

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_j-rrNu9EsSM/S4cj_nv2chI/AAAAAAAAAHI/crUbDdDF4c\
E/s400/cancan.jpg

http://www.studiosbroadwayacademyofdance.com/production.html

http://www.wolvescivic.co.uk/uploads/Galleries/CMBP-2006/Can%20Can%203%2\
0web.jpg

http://www.stagedor.com/CanCan_800x512_op_640x409.jpg

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Nikita-in-Hollywood.ht\
ml

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a5d6cf26970c-55\
0wi

http://www.ultimatehaunt.com/history2/legacy/BobBates/cancan.jpg

http://www.pokerstarsblog.net/red_and_white_can_can_d1b.jpg

http://thaliaraqs.com/Can_Can_girls_006-1.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9Xeg567bxk8/SR2QG-LVntI/AAAAAAAAFCc/WYSsIGazThs/IM\
G_1050.JPG

http://www.wpscenic.com/images/SB%20CanCan.JPG

http://static.wix.com/media/808c35f0aa74f38975c1b25737afea15.wix_mp

http://www.paris-reverie.com/index.php/galerie-photos-paris-reverie/

http://vintagevenus.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html

(Almost halfway down)

http://www.entertainments-agency-northwest.co.uk/image_library/library/e\
/ent/entertainments-agency-northwest.co.uk/orig_Traditional_Can_Can_Cost\
umes_1.jpg

http://www.sv-schwindegg.de/Page/Damenturnen/Pic/Jazztanz-200702-Faschin\
gsmeile-CanCan.jpg

http://freidenkerin.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/bild020_neg-nr-17a.jpg?w\
=450&h=300

http://freidenkerin.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/bild025_neg-nr-14a.jpg?w\
=450&h=299

http://www.gastroweb.at/highlights/09jan/Marchfelderhof_CanCan2.jpg

http://www.marchfelderhof.at/promisgallerie_archiv261.htm

http://www.fuenfzigerjahresaenger.de/Torriani/VT-30-cm-LPs-Dateien/vt-lp\
-philips-844313.jpg

http://www.der-neue-merker.eu/img/fckeditor/Pariser%20Leben%20CanCan%202\
4kb.jpg

http://paradis.show.over-blog.fr/

http://www.danseuse-du-monde.com/photos/cabaret/danseuse_french_cancan.j\
pg

http://www.hotels-paris-rive-gauche.com/blog/images/AAout/les%20vendange\
s%20de%20montmartre%20viel%20foto.jpg

http://www.jtuckerfineart.com/image/charleygarry.html

http://picasso.shsu.edu/graphics/1900/ythumbs/yopp00-154.jpg

http://photo.parismatch.com/media/photos2/3.-photos-culture/spectacles/m\
oulin-rouge-a-rio/moulin-rouge-rio-rigolade-farniente-3/523421-1-fre-FR/\
3-photos-culture-spectacles-moulin-rouge-a-rio-Moulin-rouge-rio-Rigolade\
-farniente-3_galleryphoto_paysage_std.jpg

http://photo.parismatch.com/media/photos2/3.-photos-culture/spectacles/m\
oulin-rouge-a-rio/moulin-rouge-rio-vue-ciel/523461-1-fre-FR/3-photos-cul\
ture-spectacles-moulin-rouge-a-rio-Moulin-rouge-rio-Vue-ciel_galleryphot\
o_paysage_std.jpg

http://photo.parismatch.com/media/photos2/3.-photos-culture/spectacles/m\
oulin-rouge-a-rio/moulin-rouge-rio-oiseaux-paradis/523453-1-fre-FR/3-pho\
tos-culture-spectacles-moulin-rouge-a-rio-Moulin-rouge-rio-Oiseaux-parad\
is_galleryphoto_portrait_std.jpg

http://www.striptease-france.fr/cancan_55_.jpg

http://image.toutlecine.com/photos/u/n/e/une-rousse-qui-porte-bonheur-19\
66-03-g.jpg

(You've probably seen "Charro" and "Viva Las Vegas (don't blink), but
there was a
http://image.toutlecine.com/photos/u/n/e/une-rousse-qui-porte-bonheur-19\
66-03-g.jpgbrief cancan in another Elvis film, "Frankie and Johnny",
seen here)

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5305/sanstitreqor.jpg

http://sorede.blogs.lindependant.com/media/00/02/1917045167.JPG

http://sorede.blogs.lindependant.com/album/gala-de-danse-2010/page1/

http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2010/03/11/794241-Quatre-Routes-du-Lot-F\
rench-cancan-a-la-Marpa.html

http://www.muzeocollection.com/data/modules/oeuvre/44/b7/44b77f86297fba0\
0-grand-madeleine-aubry-danseuse-cancan-anonyme-20e-siecle.jpg

http://www.espagne-facile.com/port-aventura-fete-15-ans/5085/

http://www.mailchristies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?pos=6&intObjectI\
D=4233430&sid=

http://www.ceuxdutreize.com/index.php?2009/10/20/50-l-ecole-de-danse-att\
itudes-les-photos

Barbebleu