Cancan - Le Frou Frou I

Le Frou Frou was a French weekly magazine published during the Edwardian era and in to the Twenties that featured risque, satirical and humorous drawings and cartoons and other material. This is the first in an intermittent series of posts featuring selected images from the magazine.

 

As can be seen the images vary considerably in style and quality.  They appear to be scans or photocopies of the originals for the web posting by BnF so they are not as sharp as would be desirable.

Links to the images, most of which are from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France:

If you visit the sites below use the Download/Print link above the image to get a full-sized version of the photo.

First and second images:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5552501b.images

Third image:

http://kunstpedia.com/blogs/a-lure-into-young-picasso%e2%80%99s-den.html

Fourth image:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/LeFrou_Frou1900Page085.gif/569px-LeFrou_Frou1900Page085.gif

Fifth image:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55545439/f7.image.r=

 

Sixth image:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5553114w/f8.image.r=

Seventh image:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5552487h/f8.image.r=

Eighth image:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55554186/f10.highres

Ninth image:

Lost link

Tenth image:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5552487h/f5.image.r=

You can search for and see the material for yourself at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France at this site:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/searchInPeriodique?p=1&n=15&pageNumber=26&spe=%22le+frou+frou%22&tabIndex=10&tabIndex=10&tabIndex=10&tabIndex=10&lang=EN&arkPress=cb32779027h%2Fdate&tri=date_sort

Bibliographical information for the BnF images:

Titre : Le Frou-Frou ["puis" Frou-Frou et Bonne humeur]

Éditeur : [s.n.?] (Paris)

Date d'édition : 1900

Type : texte,publication en série imprimée

Langue : Français

Format : application/pdf

Identifiant : ark:/12148/cb32779027h/date

Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Littérature et art, 4-Z-1429

Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb32779027h

Description : Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : Pam1

Provenance : bnf.fr

Date de mise en ligne : 30/11/2010

Recent Videos

Here are three videos that very recently appeared at You Tube and that I thought were better than average.

Mága Zoltán - Jacques Offenbach: Kán-kán
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwRC8SOxDiU
In a prior appearance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8CtYyBnqvc

Kankán
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmGz6L--H4M
http://www.show-time.cz/index.html

 

showagency.eu presents can can in the "club 69"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzBymd2amYU
(Too bad about the dorky drum major)
(This is a 720p version; 1080p is available on YouTube)

International Women's Day

... was March 8.   Here, the Afghan delegates perform.  A funny/sexy cartoon, which answers the perennial question.  Only humor - No disrespect to anyone intended.

From:

http://blog.libero.it/buonagiornata/12711309.html

Probably inspired by:

http://artpolitica.com/wp-content/uploads/cancan.jpg

International Women's Day:

http://www.internationalwomensday.com/

La Vie Parisienne - 1985 - as Photographed by Daniel Cande

Additional photos from the Théâtre de Paris' 1985 production of La Vie Parisienne taken by Daniel Cande.  Cande seems to have photographed just about every theater, opera and ballet event in Paris during the 1980s. 

These are from a collection housed in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. 

The collections from which these came and the originals of these and other photos can be accessed at:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9002456p.r=%22la+vie+parisienne%22.langEN

Cande seems to have photographed just about every theater, opera and ballet event in Paris during the 1980s and early 1990s, amounting to around 2000 sets of photos at the BnF site.  The collection begins at:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/Search?ArianeWireIndex=index&q=daniel+cande&lang=EN&n=50&p=1&pageNumber=75

If you visit the sites use the Download/Print link above the image to get a full-sized version of the photo.

Bibliographical information:

Titre : [La vie parisienne : photographies / Daniel Cande]

Auteur : Cande, Daniel (1938-....). Photographe

Éditeur : Daniel Cande (Paris)

Date d'édition : 1985

Type : image fixe,photographie

Langue : Français

Format : 172 photogr. pos. : diapositive coul. ; 24x36 mm

Format : image/jpeg

Droits : domaine public

Identifiant : ark:/12148/btv1b9002456p

Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Arts du spectacle, DIA-PHO-6 (75)

Relation : La vie parisienne / mise en scène de Jean-Luc Boutté et Leonidas Strapatsakis. - Paris : Théâtre de Paris, 16-10-1985

Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41279640g

These were accessed through a BnF search engine called Gallica:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/?lang=EN

The BnF site:

http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html

Gaite Parisienne - ABT - 1988 as Photographed by Daniel Cande

French photographer Daniel Cande also photographed this 1988 performance of American Ballet Theater's Gaite Parisienne in Paris with the dancers dressed in the Christian Lacroix costumes.  There is an extensive collection of additional photos from the performance available from the Bibliothèque nationale de France site.

Anyone  considering going to the upcoming revivial of this work by the ABT (see  https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/cancanfavorites/conversations/messages/2250 ) might want to see the collection.  Pictures of the short-skirted dancers predominate.  I do not know if that is true of the actual show, but I suspect it may be.  There were also a picture or two of the maids.

Link to the photos:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9080530c.r=gaite+parisienne.langEN
(2 pages)

Bibilographical information:

Titre : [Recueil. Photographies. American Ballet Theatre. Paris. Théâtre de la Gaîté parisienne. 1988 / Daniel Cande]

Auteur : Cande, Daniel (1938-....). Photographe

Éditeur : Daniel Cande (Paris)

Date d'édition : 1988

Sujet : American ballet theatre -- Photographies

Type : image fixe,photographie

Langue : Français

Format : 90 photogr. pos. : diapositive coul. ; 24x36 mm

Format : image/jpeg

Droits : domaine public

Identifiant : ark:/12148/btv1b9080530c

Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Arts du spectacle, DIA-PHO-6 (1777)

Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb426093343

Provenance : bnf.fr

Date de mise en ligne : 21/06/2013

Desire2Dance

South Yorkshire, England's Desire2Dance troupe offer a very nice cancan in addition to their showgirl/burlesque repertoire.

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Le Flatline

La Vie Parisienne as Photographed by Daniel Cande

Daniel Cande photographed three versions of "La Vie Parisienne" over the years - in 1981, 1985 and 1990.  The photos are housed in the Bibliothèque nationale de France collection.  The top four photos are from the 1990 production, and the bottom photo is from the 1985 production.  I have cropped them to emphasize the dancers.

The collections from which these came and the originals of these and other photos can be accessed at:

1981 - Théâtre du Châtelet

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90828909.r=%22la+vie+parisienne%22.langEN

1985 - Théâtre de Paris

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9002456p.r=%22la+vie+parisienne%22.langEN

1990 - Opéra comique

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9082091z.r=%22la+vie+parisienne%22.langEN

If you visit the sites use the Download/Print link above the image to get a full-sized version of the photo.

Bibliographical information:

1981 Production:

Titre : [La vie parisienne, musique de Jacques Offenbach. Paris. Théâtre du Châtelet. 1981 : photographies / Daniel Cande]

Auteur : Cande, Daniel (1938-....). Photographe

Éditeur : Daniel Cande (Paris)

Date d'édition : 1981

Type : image fixe,photographie

Langue : Français

Format : 206 photogr. pos. : diapositive coul. ; 24x36 mm

Format : image/jpeg

Droits : domaine public

Identifiant : ark:/12148/btv1b90828909

Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Arts du spectacle, DIA-PHO-6 (2101)

Relation : La vie parisienne / mise en scène de Yves Robert. - Paris : Théâtre du Châtelet, 04-11-1980

Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb42673539c

1985 Production:

Titre : [La vie parisienne : photographies / Daniel Cande]

Auteur : Cande, Daniel (1938-....). Photographe

Éditeur : Daniel Cande (Paris)

Date d'édition : 1985

Type : image fixe,photographie

Langue : Français

Format : 172 photogr. pos. : diapositive coul. ; 24x36 mm

Format : image/jpeg

Droits : domaine public

Identifiant : ark:/12148/btv1b9002456p

Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Arts du spectacle, DIA-PHO-6 (75)

Relation : La vie parisienne / mise en scène de Jean-Luc Boutté et Leonidas Strapatsakis. - Paris : Théâtre de Paris, 16-10-1985

Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41279640g

1990 Production:

Titre : [La vie parisienne, musique de Jacques Offenbach : photographies / Daniel Cande]

Auteur : Cande, Daniel (1938-....). Photographe

Éditeur : Daniel Cande (Paris)

Date d'édition : 1990

Type : image fixe,photographie

Langue : Français

Format : 177 photogr. pos. : diapositive coul. ; 24x36 mm

Format : image/jpeg

Droits : domaine public

Identifiant : ark:/12148/btv1b9082091z

Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Arts du spectacle, DIA-PHO-6 (2007)

Relation : La vie parisienne / mise en scène de Olivier Benezech. - Paris : Opéra comique, 04-12-1990

Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb426343575


These were accessed through a BnF search engine called Gallica:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/?lang=EN

The BnF site:

http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html

Costume Design Drawings for La Vie Parisienne 1980

The top drawing could easily become one of my favorite drawings of the cancan.   These are costume drawings for a 1980 production of "La Vie Parisienne" staged by Théâtre du Châtelet.

They are from the collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.  I am not sure of the artist's name, but it may be Valeri.   These are included in a collection of photos of the production taken by Daniel Cande.

The originals, together with a number of other photos of the same drawings with differing amounts of brightness and contrast, may be viewed at:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90828909/f145.planchecontact.r=

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90828909/f206.planchecontact.r=

If you visit the site use the Download/Print link above the image to get a full-sized version of the photo.

Bibliographical information:

http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb42673539c
 
Identifier : ark:/12148/btv1b90828909

Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Arts du spectacle, DIA-PHO-6 (2101)

Relation : La vie parisienne / mise en scène de Yves Robert. - Paris : Théâtre du Châtelet, 04-11-1980

Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb42673539c

These were accessed through a BnF search engine called Gallica:

http://gallica.bnf.fr/?lang=EN

The BnF site:

http://www.bnf.fr/fr/acc/x.accueil.html

Mini Hollywood

Three photos of the dancers at the Mini Hollywood amusement park in Almeria, Spain.  This seems to be the latest, and not necessarily the best, iteration of the costumes.
 
These are from the elrincondesancho-elbibliotecario blog and were taken during a visit to the park.

See the original blog at:

http://elrincondesancho-elbibliotecario.blogspot.com/

More about Mini Hollywood:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Hollywood

http://www.oasysparquetematico.com/

Prior years:

http://clubccd.blogspot.com/2013/04/mini-hollywood-saloon.html

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Can_Can_highkicking_at_Mini_Hollywood.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Masked_can_can_dancers_at_Mini_Hollywood.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Can_can_dancers_at_Mini_Hollywood.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfyHvB6Z_70

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

Tynkas

This vivacious troupe of very pretty Czech dancers is not identified but is nicely photographed by Tynkas.  They seem to be enjoying the photo shoot as much as I'm sure the photographer did.  And catch the mischievous look of the dancer in the third photo from the bottom. 

You can see quite a few more of this great set of photos at Tynkas rajce-idens.cz site:

http://tynkas.rajce.idnes.cz/Kankan/

(By the way, tip to dancers: lose the padding.)