# Brutal (French?) Cabaret dance ring a bell?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 20, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brutal-french-cabaret-dance-ring-a-bell/543931 "2010-06-20T23:45:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![SantaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@SantaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SantaMan)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brutal-french-cabaret-dance-ring-a-bell/543931/1 "2010-06-20T23:45:43Z")

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In the misty recesses of my memory, I seem to recall a (now highly politically incorrect) cabaret dance where the male throws the female across the stage to the tune of a concertina. I distinctly remember the male in a beret and horizontal striped shirt and the female in a short skirt.  
Does this style sound familiar to anyone? I could swear I remember a parody of it with Sid Ceasar and Imogene Coca on “Your Show of Shows”.

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brutal-french-cabaret-dance-ring-a-bell/543931/2 "2010-06-21T00:25:00Z")

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> **[Apache (dance)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_%28dance%29)**
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> Apache, or La Danse Apache, Bowery Waltz, Apache Turn, Apache Dance and Tough Dance is a highly dramatic dance associated in popular culture with Parisian street culture at the beginning of the 20th century. In fin de siècle Paris young members of street gangs were labelled Apaches by the press because of the ferocity of their savagery towards one another, a name taken from the native North American indigenous people, the Apache. Thus the name of the dance is pronounced as the French pronounce ...

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**Author:** ![SantaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@SantaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SantaMan)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brutal-french-cabaret-dance-ring-a-bell/543931/3 "2010-06-21T01:02:47Z")

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Thanks muchly.Ignorance fought.

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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brutal-french-cabaret-dance-ring-a-bell/543931/4 "2010-06-21T05:00:59Z")

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NP, you tube also has vids of it if you search.

I much prefer the can-can =)