The can-can (more correctly not hyphenated, as in the
original French: cancan) is regarded today primarily as
a physically demanding music hall dance, performed by a
chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes with
long skirts, petticoats, and black stockings, that
hearkens back to the fashions of the 1890s. The main
features of the dance are the lifting up and
manipulation of the skirts, with high kicking and
suggestive, provocative body movements. The Galop from
Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus...(+)
The can-can (more correctly not hyphenated, as in the
original French: cancan) is regarded today primarily as
a physically demanding music hall dance, performed by a
chorus line of female dancers who wear costumes with
long skirts, petticoats, and black stockings, that
hearkens back to the fashions of the 1890s. The main
features of the dance are the lifting up and
manipulation of the skirts, with high kicking and
suggestive, provocative body movements. The Galop from
Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld is the
tune most associated with the can-can. (Wikipedia)