Can-can, a high-energy and physically demanding music hall dance
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The Rockettes, a New York dance company which are famous for their kickline and eye high kicks
Yates stayed with the Rockettes for 4 years before making her Broadway debut as a swing in the 1997 revue show Dream also starring Lesley Ann Warren.
Apparently a sign of springtime's prolific blossoming, the crowded rows of babies mass like a phalanx of infantile Rockettes.