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[oakenguy]

True story, folks, while I was watching the DVD extras of Moulin Rouge with a high fever on Friday night (AS ONE DOES), the choreographer was being interviewed and he said one of the most awesome things I've ever heard in my life.

He said that when he was creating the Can Can sequence, he didn't want it to seem 'nice' and 'pretty'. He went for treating the dancers like two rival gangs, who'd rush at each other and have a dance-off.

Yes. This man, this unsung genius, created the Can Can Battle.

There's a parallel world out there where the dancers in the movie took this too much to heart and started *really* trying to settle disputes by can canning each other in the alleys behind the studio. And this spread and spread, so now there are unemployed dancers can can dueling (cee-squaring, they call it) each other all over Los Angeles and New York. And I want to go to there.

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[clionona.livejournal.com]

While the Can-Can Battle is awesome, I'm left wondering what watching the "green fairy" scene would be like with a high fever...

[sheapottery.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of the Can Can Battle, but now I'm thinking about worlds where the Macarena is used to settle conflicts. Now it's **shudder** River Dance.

I have to go bang my head against the wall until these thoughts fall out.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Oh, totally the same.

I'd just never noticed the flying snakes before.

And the penguin that sang my naaaaaaaaaaaaame....

[qlewkr.livejournal.com]

Did disco make it back, yet? Is he haggard and worn out? Are they still on speaking terms? Tell him he has to write an expose on LJ, because our "enquiring minds" are desperate to know what a co-op retreat is like. It doesn't have to be negative. I bet they came to all kinds of great revelations. Did Qigong girl go? Oh, man...what was it like? What was it like?

[eclecticavatar.livejournal.com]

Can Can Revolution used this tactic in a couple of our performances.

Also? You should see Sucker Punch, because it's basically Moulin Rouge with machine guns and less singing. Same music coordinator and same choreographer.