Thread: Is there still a place in burlesque for the Can-can?

Originally Posted by tempest devyne

Oh this HAS to be done! Especially if most of the high kicks were done to the side instead of front on to the audience, so you have them wondering what you're actually wearing under the kilt....and at the end of your haka you could do the big reveal (probably wearing some sort or comedic pantaloons...or not....) It HAS to be done!

It's been done! On the cinema screen no less. Not sure which decade, sixties maybe, you need to go on Wiki. Google tells me it's 1976.
There was a film called Salon Kitty. It's about a knocking shop in Berlin at the height of the Nazi regime. When the officers went there for the delights of the flesh, they were covertly 'listened to' for any secrets they might divulge.
One particular scene featured four waiters dressed, top half in waistcoats, shirts, male attire. Bottom half, Can-can skirts. When they lift the hemline, it's balls and all for five pence. There are clips of it on YouTube, but be warned, it is both graphic and gratuitous.

Agh! I just noticed the new MoB ad at the top - typical, its on the day I'm off playing in a nuclear bunker!

Originally Posted by Broomstick Pilot

Can you Can-can-can, shouts Jim Broadbent in Moulin Rouge. (sorry I can't remember the name of Jim's character,)
Well can you Can-can? Is this sexy dance, that so shocked the polite society of the late 19th century slipping into oblivion?
I only ever see it as a finale to a big production, if ever I see it at all. In defence of Can-caneurs everywhere, I have to say it's an absolute killer to dance. High speed, gymnastic and in those infamous heels. But I love it!
So do you. male or female, still enjoy the spectacle that is the Can-can?
Or have you too noticed that it's no longer performed anymore, unless a film or show comes along and gives it a mini revival? Anyone else on the forum a Can-can dancer?
Well let me ask you this. When was the last time you saw the Can-can in all it's sexy sassy splendour?
Sadly the only good can can these days is this Coca-Cola Can-can costume sculpture. Made from Coca-Cola cancans of course!

I know of just three links to good Can-cans, but if you know of any, then post it/them.
And just to get your grey cells working, other than Jacques Offenbachs famous finale to Orpheus in the Underworld, what other scores make a good Can-can?

Well, there are a few tunes I can think off...The recent movie "Moulin Rouge"offered, Fat Boy Slim's" Every Can-Can. I personally find it QUITE annoying.

Some really good can-can music:
Johann Strauss "Tritsch-Tratsch Polka.
"Sabre Dance" is another. (In fact, on a old Benny Hill Show, a comedy skit from the 1890s was a showplace names "Benito's." Hill's Angels did one of the best can-can routimes seen on television in quite a while to Sabre Dance. The choreographer on that routine was Libby Roberts.)

Henry Mancini did two really good 2/4 numbers. One was "King's Can-Can," featured in the movie, "Victor/Victoria." And if you can find it, "They're Off!" Also, by Mancini, and it was a musical score from the American film comedy, "The Great Race," which featured Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood.

Also, Nelson Riddle did a wonderful musical arrangement of "Cole Porter's Can-Can" while Shirley MacLaine and Juliet Prowse screamed about. It's hard to find but that piece of music is upbeat and very creative.

Originally Posted by Broomstick Pilot

Can you Can-can-can, shouts Jim Broadbent in Moulin Rouge. (sorry I can't remember the name of Jim's character,)
Well can you Can-can? Is this sexy dance, that so shocked the polite society of the late 19th century slipping into oblivion?
I only ever see it as a finale to a big production, if ever I see it at all. In defence of Can-caneurs everywhere, I have to say it's an absolute killer to dance. High speed, gymnastic and in those infamous heels. But I love it!
So do you. male or female, still enjoy the spectacle that is the Can-can?
Or have you too noticed that it's no longer performed anymore, unless a film or show comes along and gives it a mini revival? Anyone else on the forum a Can-can dancer?
Well let me ask you this. When was the last time you saw the Can-can in all it's sexy sassy splendour?
Sadly the only good can can these days is this Coca-Cola Can-can costume sculpture. Made from Coca-Cola cancans of course!

I know of just three links to good Can-cans, but if you know of any, then post it/them.
And just to get your grey cells working, other than Jacques Offenbachs famous finale to Orpheus in the Underworld, what other scores make a good Can-can?

Well, there are a few tunes I can think off...The recent movie "Moulin Rouge"offered, Fat Boy Slim's "Everybody Can-Can." I personally find it QUITE annoying.

Some really good can-can music:
Johann Strauss "Tritsch-Tratsch Polka.
"Sabre Dance" is another. (In fact, on a old Benny Hill Show, a comedy skit from the 1890s was a showplace names "Benito's." Hill's Angels did one of the best can-can routines seen on television in quite a while to Sabre Dance. The choreographer on that routine was Libby Roberts.)

Henry Mancini did two really good 2/4 numbers. One was "King's Can-Can," featured in the movie, "Victor/Victoria." And if you can find it, "They're Off!" Also, by Mancini, and it was a musical score from the American film comedy, "The Great Race," which featured Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood.

Also, Nelson Riddle did a wonderful musical arrangement of "Cole Porter's Can-Can" while Shirley MacLaine and Juliet Prowse screamed about. It's hard to find but that piece of music is upbeat and very creative.

You know when you have flashbacks about your past?

I was lying in bed last night and it suddenly dawned on me....something I had totally forgotten.....I've can-can-ed. I'd totally forgotten about it.....

1981, the school disco - me, Karen Rayner, Lindsey Scrafton - all dressed in our Adam and the Ants costumes (complete with face paint), arms linked, kicking our legs in the air with abandon and I seem to remember attempting the splits at the end to Bad Manners version of the Can Can (yes I'd totally forgotten until last night they did one too) and then picking ourselves up to pogo to Tenpole Tudor's Swords of a Thousand Men or was it the Stray Cat Strut?

Happy days...

I know this contributes nothing to the discussion (other than if anyone wants to use the Bad Manners version) but the memory stunned me. I have a lot of black holes in my memory, and every so often some come flooding back.

Originally Posted by tempest devyne

and then picking ourselves up to pogo to Tenpole Tudor's Swords of a Thousand Men or was it the Stray Cat Strut?

I hope it was Stray Cat Strut - that's not a bad song, but I have a massive grudge against Ed Tudor Pole for effectively ruining everyone's enjoyment of the Crystal Maze ...

The Crystal Maze is amazing!

Haha amazing- see what I did there? I'm a genius, me!

Originally Posted by December Charm

The Crystal Maze is amazing!

WAS

Richard O'Brien's departure was a sad, sad day ...

Originally Posted by Fleur du Mal

WAS

Not if you have Challenge TV!!!

Originally Posted by James

The details of our Can-Can workshop have now been posted. Go to:
Ministry Of Burlesque - MoB Academy Presents... Can-Can Workshop - Oct 18 2008
for more info!

See you there!
:cooler:

If my knee problem isn't too bad by then, I'll be there! (And if no-one else looks like a young man in a skirt, you'll easily recognise me.)

This is wonderful news James - and after you admitted the poo-poo of a can-can too!