Madge Slack
@madge_slack
"It’s international dance day so here is are some shots from my last show Die Fledermaus with @utahopera this show was a ton of fun and I got to meet, and swoon over, so many amazing people."
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Madge - Happy International Dance Day
Madge Slack
@madge_slack
"It’s international dance day so here is are some shots from my last show Die Fledermaus with @utahopera this show was a ton of fun and I got to meet, and swoon over, so many amazing people."
Anika - Happy International Dance Day
A N I K A
@anikaday
https://www.instastalker2.com/media/B_lvFdTD4Mc
"La Donna più bella del Mondo" (1955)
An excellent print of the Gina Lollobrigida classic, "La Donna più bella del Mondo" (1955) (aka Beautiful, but Dangerous). The posting comes from Russia.
You can debate whether this qualifies as a cancan, but enjoy it just to watch Lollo in action. Other highlights include a cat fight and a ladies' duel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmKg3LK1UGk&t=2104s
("cancan" at 30:07)
Prior posts.
https://clubccd.blogspot.com/search?q=lollobrigida
https://barbebleu.tumblr.com/tagged/Gina%20Lollobrigida
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Sophie Stone - Happy International Dance Day
Sophie Stone
@_sophiestone
"𝐿𝒾𝒻𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓇𝓉, 𝒟𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝑜𝓊𝓉... 𝐻𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 𝐼𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓃𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓁 𝒟𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒟𝒶𝓎💋"
https://www.instastalker2.com/media/B_kBVB1AGOv
The Flaming Feathers - "Happy International Dance Day!
The Flaming Feathers
@theflamingfeathers
"Happy International Dance Day! We can't wait to be back on stage"
https://www.instastalker2.com/media/B_kAp3rnRFo
L'Armée des Roses - Paris Cancan Happy International Dance Day
Happy International Dance Day from
L'Armée des Roses
@paris_cancan
https://www.instastalker2.com/media/B_kNCQjJYNZ
LCCB - Happy International Dance Day!
"Happy International Dance Day!
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Wow, we sure do miss dancing. We’re looking forward to dancing with you again, soon!"
From Le Cancan Bijou
@lecancanbijou
https://www.instastalker2.com/media/B_lKm6IHD1T
Dançarinas de Cancan
Black and white
Left and right
I liked it the first time around, so here it is again.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7bFov753c0
Prior post with photos:
https://clubccd.blogspot.com/search?q=toller
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Can Can Dance vanuit Meerhout voor alle HELDEN VAN DE ZORG
What can you do with a deserted street? Another home-grown coronavirus cancan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFuY9JW9RCw
Monday, April 27, 2020
World Burlesque Day - Everyone cancan with L’Armée des Roses in France
How to celebrate the day. Stay around for the cancans.
Thanks again, Monika
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcwZwB1fojQ
Балет "Импулс" - Can Can
Impuls - Fancy petticoats; plain black knickers
https://youtu.be/8q5TXpLxfKw
Sorry, I couldn't find a website for them, but here are some other Impluses:
https://clubccd.blogspot.com/search?q=impuls
Scarborough Round Table 88 at the 1989 Area Rally
From 1989, so excuse the quality of the video, but enjoy the well-costumed dancers putting on a show at what Antoine surmises might be a workmen's club in Scarborough in the UK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVzrSqTXJ00
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Ганна Главари (1979)
Soviet split skirt spectacular
Posted as a curiosity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x49h8Dj3eBA
(cancan starts at 1:01:02 and continues for a while)
Coronavirus Cancan
Another boredom-induced, improvised cancan, this time by Christina
@adorabellachristina ✨Christina Michelle✨
https://www.instastalker2.com/media/B_acL1KgNJM
Saturday, April 25, 2020
1866
The annual ball of the Czech reenactment group, 1866, this time featuring Star West Trutnov
https://1866.rajce.idnes.cz/Ples_Josefov_2020/
Club CCD Album:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/R5ud9YL8njpQE4jh9
Prior posts (with Star West and Spolek Elegantnich Dam):
https://clubccd.blogspot.com/2019/02/1866.html
https://clubccd.blogspot.com/2016/02/spolek-elegantnich-dam.html
https://clubccd.blogspot.com/2018/03/spolek-elegantnich-dam-at-1866.html
Friday, April 24, 2020
Confinement - Jour 37 (22/04/2020) : Show must go on
A coronavirus cancan using materials at hand by Adele
Day 37
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdHV7atDnYY
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Mahler (1974) - More Ken Russell Madness
As a followup to Barbe's post on Russell's THE MUSIC LOVERS, here's another biopic/cinematic acid trip from the irrepressible Ken Russell, this time involving composer Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell).
Basically, there's a fantasy sequence where Mahler is trapped in a coffin (with a glass window!) being carried through a cemetery by Nazi's, and his widow dances a brief cancan on top of said coffin.
No, it doesn't make sense in context, either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTo0kEwDAPg
(fast forward to 57:13)
As for the rest of the movie - let's just say it's brought to you by the letters N, S, F, and W.
Still, you gotta give it up for Ken Russell - the man loves his garters and thigh-highs.
Le Flatline
Basically, there's a fantasy sequence where Mahler is trapped in a coffin (with a glass window!) being carried through a cemetery by Nazi's, and his widow dances a brief cancan on top of said coffin.
No, it doesn't make sense in context, either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTo0kEwDAPg
(fast forward to 57:13)
As for the rest of the movie - let's just say it's brought to you by the letters N, S, F, and W.
Still, you gotta give it up for Ken Russell - the man loves his garters and thigh-highs.
Le Flatline
The Music Lovers - 1971 (Richard Chamberlain - Glenda Jackson)
A psycho/bio of Tchaikovsky, One of Ken Russell's excesses. Very nice, but very brief cancan. Don't blink. One wishes the pre-cut footage of this was available.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Tf31aOITI
(cancan at 1:50:28)
The photo:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/RICHARD-CHAMBERLAIN-SHOWGIRLS-STOCKINGS-The-Music-Lovers-71/392742248493?hash=item5b7143202d:g:ywkAAOSw5qdb0pyq
The film was something less than a hit with the critics:
"Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it "an involved and garish private fantasy" and "totally irresponsible as a film about, or inspired by, or parallel to, or bearing a vague resemblance to, Tchaikovsky, his life and times."[19]
Time said, "Seventy-seven years have passed since Tchaikovsky's death. In this epoch of emancipated morality, it would be reasonable to expect that his life would be reviewed with fresh empathy. But no; the same malignant attitudinizing that might have been applied decades ago is still at work . . . [the film's] arch tableaux, its unstable amalgam of life and art, make it a director's picture . . . attempting to reveal psychology through music, Russell makes every character grotesque, every bar of music programmatic."[20]
Variety opined, "By unduly emphasizing the mad and the perverse in their biopic . . . producer-director Ken Russell and scripter Melvyn Bragg lose their audience. The result is a motion picture that is frequently dramatically and visually stunning but more often tedious and grotesque . . . Instead of a Russian tragedy, Russell seems more concerned with haunting the viewers' memory with shocking scenes and images. The opportunity to create a memorable and fluid portrait of the composer has been sacrificed for a musical Grand Guignol."[21]
In the Cleveland Press, Toni Mastroianni said, "The movies have treated composers notoriously badly but few films have been quite so awful as this pseudo-biography of Tchaikovsky."[22]
Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader described the film as a "Ken Russell fantasia – musical biography as wet dream" and added, "[it] hangs together more successfully than his other similar efforts, thanks largely to a powerhouse performance by Glenda Jackson, one actress who can hold her own against Russell's excess."[23]
TV Guide calls it "a spurious biography of a great composer that is so filled with wretched excesses that one hardly knows where to begin . . . all the attendant surrealistic touches director Ken Russell has added take this out of the realm of plausibility and into the depths of cheap gossip."[24]
Time Out New York calls it "vulgar, excessive, melodramatic and self-indulgent . . . the drama is at fever pitch throughout . . . Chamberlain doesn't quite have the range required in the central role, though his keyboard skills are impressive."[25]
Pauline Kael would later say in an interview: "You really feel you should drive a stake through the heart of the man who made it. I mean it is so vile. It is so horrible."[26]"
Mr. Russell is reputed to have responded, "___________'em if they can't take a joke,"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music_Lovers
Monday, April 20, 2020
"Tu Che M'Hai Preso il Cuor" - Gran Galà d'Operetta - sabato 13 febbraio...
From Italy
Plain costumes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcQLRbZ6dGM
(cancan at 1:31:13)
operetta galas
Sunday, April 19, 2020
Operettengala, Minnich, Holiday, Kollo u.a.,オペレッタガラ
With some Japanese subtitles that don't spoil the parts we are interested in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rG_Fs6ShF8
(cancan at 4:21 and continuing intermittently for a while)
Saturday, April 18, 2020
Friday, April 17, 2020
Die Wild West Girls and Boys bei 17:30 SAT.1 BAYERN
A great little video from a German TV program featuring the Wild West Girls, a longtime favorite around here. Royal flash fans will really appreciate this one and should stay around for the encore at the end.
The video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gWaYC5fxBI
Prior posts (some excellent photos and links)
https://clubccd.blogspot.com/search?q=wild+west+girls
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Morning Wake-up
Courtesy of L'Armée des Roses
Being creative during Covid-19
@paris_cancan
https://www.instastalker2.com/media/B-1W3eKpdAt
Φιλαρμονική Rybnik & Μαζορέτες Κέρκυρα 2011
Greeks bearing gifts
At the Rybnik & Masoretes Corfu Philharmonic
From 2011
https://youtu.be/8h4-gyeqwbM
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Monday, April 13, 2020
Quarantine Cancans
With COVID-19 precautions wreaking havoc on society, it's fortunate we have some performers who've figured out ways to perform Our Favorite Dance - while still observing the 6-foot/two-meter safety protocol.
First, two of the members of "Paris Cancan:"
Next, "piano pinup" Lola Astanova has finally cracked under the strain of quarantine!
First, two of the members of "Paris Cancan:"
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-7c1fepbEB/
("Cleanest" cancan EVER!)
("Cleanest" cancan EVER!)
Next, "piano pinup" Lola Astanova has finally cracked under the strain of quarantine!
More from these fine ladies at:
Stay safe and (mostly!) sane out there, folks!
Le Flatline
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Saturday, April 11, 2020
Saint Petersburg Theatre of Musical Comedy - Веселая вдова
This video complements the photos from this production posted earlier. Olga Lozova is featured.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHcGYqpiTdE
Prior post:
https://clubccd.blogspot.com/2020/01/saint-petersburg-theatre-of-musical.html
Friday, April 10, 2020
Abigail's bachelorette party
Some fine animation here. Costuming isn't what we'd like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL3aZmkNWBY
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Monday, April 6, 2020
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Lina M Compagnie 1
Part 1
A great performance by the Lina M Compagnie, but the garter belts are crying out for some stockings
The video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DGiwhzOVIc
Sites:
https://www.lina-m-compagnie.com/
https://www.facebook.com/LMCompagnie
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTQYP4M98-N-Rzgtg7Nz1Yw
Companion post on Classic Cancan:
https://classiccancan.blogspot.com/2020/04/lina-m-compagnie.html
Prior post:
https://clubccd.blogspot.com/2016/06/half-loaf.html
Lina M Compagnie 2
Part 2
A great performance by the Lina M Compagnie, but the garter belts are crying out for some stockings
The video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KCVLGhEGOA
Sites:
https://www.lina-m-compagnie.com/
https://www.facebook.com/LMCompagnie
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTQYP4M98-N-Rzgtg7Nz1Yw
Companion post on Classic Cancan:
https://classiccancan.blogspot.com/2020/04/lina-m-compagnie.html
Prior post:
https://clubccd.blogspot.com/2016/06/half-loaf.html
Saturday, April 4, 2020
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