Can Can – High Kicks and Frilly Knickers – A Cultural History of the dance that Inspired Toulouse Lautrec, Seurat and Picasso
The Cancan is the most famous dance in the world, as much an icon of French culture and identity as the baguette, playing boules, and the Eiffel Tower. Hearing the first few bars of the galop from Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld immediately conjures up the exhilarating days of 1890s Belle Epoque Paris, as a troupe of dancers run on stage squealing and yelping with wild abandon.
About Martin Heard
After studying History of Art at Manchester University I spent three years in the editorial department of a fine art publishing company. My later career took a detour into the world of information technology, during which time I had the opportunity to live and work for several years in both continental Europe and North America. Having ‘retired’ from this field of endeavour I now devote my time to researching mainly: English and French eighteenth, and late nineteenth century art and architecture; and European garden history from the medieval period to that of the great landscape gardeners, Capability Brown and Humphry Repton.
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