{"id":840,"date":"2011-12-01T09:57:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T13:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=840"},"modified":"2015-06-11T20:26:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T00:26:32","slug":"international-dance-part-3-of-3%e2%80%94cancan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/international-dance-part-3-of-3%e2%80%94cancan","title":{"rendered":"International Dance, Part 3 of 3\u2014Cancan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Moulin Rouge - Can-Can at premiere after-party by CharlesFred, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/charlesfred\/231444030\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/85\/231444030_74c2e895f3.jpg\" alt=\"Moulin Rouge - Can-Can at premiere after-party\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Discover the Cancan in the third part of this world dance series, which in its heyday elicited rather too much scandal in the <a href=\"..\/..\/educational-tours\/paris-essentials.aspx\">Parisian district of Montmartre<\/a>. They didn\u2019t call this dance the Cancan (which translates as \u201cscandal\u201d) for nothing. Young ladies, (usually students) would shriek, provocatively throw their legs up high from beneath their long skirt and petticoat, and energetically move around the dance hall. However, at one time the Cancan wasn\u2019t just a dance for women. It evolved from a popular partnered dance called the \u201cGallop\u201d in the early 1800s (incidentally, a simplified version of \u201cThe Gallop\u201d by Jacques Offenbach is most often associated with the Cancan). And at one\u2014albeit brief\u2014time, men would perform the Cancan in dance halls alongside women. (Some say that these gents caused even more of a ruckus than the ladies.) Although the Cancan style swiftly became popular outside of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/teachers\/select-a-tour\/france.aspx\">France<\/a>, the acrobatic and choreographed chorus line of the Cancan that we picture today was actually <em>imported <\/em>into France from the music halls of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/teachers\/select-a-tour\/britain-and-ireland.aspx\">UK<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/teachers\/select-a-tour\/north-american-tours.aspx\">USA<\/a> at the beginning of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century! Today, dancing the Cancan is relegated to the days of yore. But with a visit to the infamous Moulin Rouge, a destination made famous as much by the Cancan as by post-impressionist artist, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, you&#8217;ll still be able to feel the fervor of a typical French Cancan performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the Cancan in the third part of this world dance series, which in its heyday elicited rather too much scandal in the Parisian district of Montmartre. They didn\u2019t call this dance the Cancan (which translates as \u201cscandal\u201d) for nothing. Young ladies, (usually students) would shriek, provocatively throw their legs up high from beneath their <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/international-dance-part-3-of-3%e2%80%94cancan\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,63,172],"tags":[189,58,190,188],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-parents","category-students","category-teachers","tag-cancan-dance","tag-educational-travel","tag-educational-travel-france","tag-international-dance","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5757,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/5757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}