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can can

music hall dance presentation
Intangible type_of_dance Q333009
can can
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

can can is a type of dance[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of type of dance entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,637 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: quadrille[3], ballroom dance[4]
  • Commons category: Can-can dancers[5]
  • Country of origin: France[6]
  • Inception: 1820[7]
  • Described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia[8], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9]

Why It Matters

can can has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

France

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16d ago · Mahir256 · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'en', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Pronunciation audio: De-Cancan.ogg"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country of origin → France
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → quadrille, ballroom dance
    Instance of → —
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 29996, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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