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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
Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld [1] (17 February 1821 – 17 January 1861), better known by the stage name Lola Montez (/ m oʊ n ˈ t ɛ z /), was an Irish dancer and actress who became famous as a Spanish dancer, courtesan, and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who made her Gräfin von Landsfeld (Countess of Landsfeld).
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; Ninette de Valois (1898–2001), ballerina, choreographer, director, founded Vic-Wells Ballet which became the Royal Ballet
Jerry Bryant died in 1861, but during the war, Bryant's Minstrels carried on, populating their shows with pro-Union songs such as "One Country and One Flag" and "Raw Recruits", as well as Irish characterizations and songs such as "Finnegan's Wake" and "Lanigan's Ball".
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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 ...