concept
Cancan
cancan
also: Канкан
A high-kicking, provocative French dance popular in variety and music-hall entertainment from the mid-nineteenth century, named by the crowd as the spectacle they really want.
Reading notes
- Modern Prayers §8 The cancan
A high-kicking, provocative French dance popular in variety and music-hall entertainment from the mid-nineteenth century; the crowd's cry names the spectacle the ballet-petitioner is really after.