Can Can

There are Egyptian relief's that depict the fundamental Can-Can high kicking above the audiences heads. The Catatonians and Parisian women (French) are also depicted kicking the hats off of the gentlemen spectators. The "Triori" of 1549 from South Brittany was very similar to today's cancan, the women danced alone, lifting their dresses up in front and kicking their legs up to the ceiling. The dancers or "High-Kickers " as they were called, emerged over time and ended up in Paris, France. In the late 19th. Century Paris was still the dance center of the world. It was later introduced to England at the Oxford Music Hall sometime in the 1860's by the proprietor Charles Morton who introduced the the "Can-Can," with a troupe headed by Imre Kiralfy and his brother Bolossy along with their sister Aniola.