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1844: Dancer Clara Vestris Webster's dress caught fire during The Revolt of the Harem at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Webster was badly burned and died three days later. 1861: The four Gale sisters were a team of British ballerinas who were appearing at Philadelphia's Continental Theater.
New York audiences were introduced to Isabella Cubas and her dance partner, in September 1861 at the Winter Garden Theatre, managed by James M. Nixon. [13] In November 1861, in Worcester, Massachusetts, a ballet troupe with Cubas as the leading attraction, performed at Mechanics Hall. [14]
A. Natale Abbadia; Abbasqoli Khan Mo'tamed od-Dowleh Javanshir; Abdülmecid I; James Abercrombie (congressman) Robert Scarlett, 2nd Baron Abinger; Shimun XVII Abraham
Emma Livry (born as Jeanne Emma Emarot or Emma Marie Emarot; 24 September 1842 – 26 July 1863) was a French ballerina who was one of the last ballerinas of the Romantic ballet era and a protégée of Marie Taglioni.
Born in 1861 in Milan in Italy the daughter of Andrea Palladini, a dancer at the Teatro alla Scala who chose to change his surname. [1] She trained at La Scala Theatre Ballet in Milan and from 1873 to 1876 danced in the same theatre, first as a pupil of the school in choreography by Antonio Pallerini including Le due twelle (1873), The Seven Deadly Sins (1873) and in Ferdinando Pratesi's La ...
December 25, 1861 April 10, 1938 American Comedian known as "The Boy Comic." [108] Jelly Roll Morton: September 20, 1885 July 10, 1941 American Pianist, bandleader and composer, one of the founders of modern-day jazz. Mosconi Brothers: American Dance duo consisting of brothers Louis (1895-1969) and Charles Mosconi (1892-1975). [109] Bennie Moten
Lola Montez (1821–1861), dancer, courtesan; Joan Denise Moriarty (c. 1912–1992), ballerina, choreographer, traditional Irish dancer, founder of professional ballet in Ireland; Gillian Norris (born 1978), show dancer; Ciara Sexton (born 1988), five time world champion Irish dancer who toured with the Lord of the Dance
Little Dancer of Fourteen Years, detail of Degas' statue of van Goethem.. Marie Geneviève van Goethem (or Goetham or Goeuthen; born 7 June 1865) was a French ballet student and dancer with the Paris Opera Ballet, and the model for Edgar Degas's statue Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans).