13
May 2025

Can Can - High Kicks and Frilly Knickers. A Cultural history of the Dance that inspired Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat and Picasso.

The Arts Society Nerja
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 18:00
Centro Cultural,
Calle Granada, Nerja, 29780
Online Event

The Cancan is the most famous dance in the world.

The Cancan is an icon of French culture and identity. Hearing the first bars of the galop from Offenbach´s Orpheus in the Underworld conjures up the exhilarating days of 1890s Belle Epoque in Paris, as a troupe of dancers run on stage squealing and yelping with wild abandon.

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Mr 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.