AFJD

From an AFJD (Association pour la formation de jeunes danseurs) show in 2008.

Their sites:

http://www.afjd.ch/?p=photos&g=17

https://www.facebook.com/pages/AFJD-association-pour-la-formation-de-jeunes-danseurs/373364982689129

Photo credit:  Pierre-Alain Pingoud

Dixie Dynamite

Dixie Dynamite (Sylvia Plankl) of Dixie's Cancan Dancers shows her stuff in this great photo by Martin Doerr.  I wish I could find a higher resolution version of the photo.

Original photo at:

http://de.yelp.ch/biz/vintage-dance-studio-m%C3%BCnchen

See these prior postings for many more photos and videos:

http://clubccd.blogspot.com/2014/07/dixies-cancan-dancers.html

http://clubccd.blogspot.com/2014/06/dixies-cancan.html

Very Merry Widows

A clever interpretation of The Merry Widow for ballet by Krys Danse, a Swiss troupe. Who knows what secrets lurk beneath the widows' weeds?

 

See their webpages at:

http://www.krysdanse.ch/

https://www.facebook.com/krysdanse.renens

Photo credit to Olivier Spinnier.

Prior posting from a different show:

http://clubccd.blogspot.com/2013/06/krys-danse.html

More Action

Show Ballet Action in Action

More great photos of this troupe from Kaliningrad, Russia.  The top photo provokes a big smile.

These complement an earlier posting with some spectacular photos, including the last one above, which is reposted here for obvious reasons.  See the earlier posting at:

http://clubccd.blogspot.com/2013/12/show-ballet-action-action.html

Action's VK.com site is:

http://vk.com/album-60446604_181779582#/club60446604

The album with these photo is at:

http://vk.com/album-60446604_181779582#/album-60446604_181779582

Their main site:

http://www.action-dance.ru/

There is a very grainy video:

http://vk.com/album-60446604_181779582#/videos-60446604?z=video-60446604_168618001%2Fclub60446604

Can Candrea

 

 

Enterprising dancer/instructor Can Candrea (Andrea de la Torre) of Chicago has discovered the cancan and is busily promoting it.  Her interest developed as an outgrowth of her belly dancing.

See more about her activities at:

http://www.tribalrevolution.com/andrea-can-candrea.html

http://www.icancandance.com/

The video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpN1kWtSgng

Another video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4oDMG6rWEQ

Butterflies in Nice

For the lepidopterists

Some very nice Nice carnival costumes for sale:

http://www.spectable.com/tableau-cabaret-cancan-luxe-spectacle-de-15-costumes/82792

Soulfully Driven Dance

Soulfully Driven Dance of Littleton, Colorado puts on a nice cancan show.

Their sites:

http://www.sddance.org/#

https://www.facebook.com/SoulfullyDriven/photos#!/SoulfullyDriven

They have posted a number of videos on You Tube, but I don't see one of the cancan.

https://www.youtube.com/user/SoulfullyDrivenDance/videos

Iconosquare Collection XI

 

More from Iconosquare:

 

Links and credits:

http://iconosquare.com/p/522982272430806556_488541060

http://iconosquare.com/p/666852140423534271_427652516

http://iconosquare.com/p/679667117293196004_512164499

http://iconosquare.com/p/433273858386453646_280376432

http://iconosquare.com/p/313079807924497500_23118066

http://iconosquare.com/p/755736062642855200_333449582

http://iconosquare.com/p/755901723630424437_49366587

http://iconosquare.com/p/697967563842215933_655410982

http://iconosquare.com/p/601004753841011587_636860237

http://iconosquare.com/p/232826282613821293_48596170