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Lola Montez portrait by Joseph Heigel [] before 1840 Lola Montez's lithography Lola Montez with Alights-on-a-Cloud, 1850s. Eliza Rosanna Gilbert was born into an Anglo-Irish family, the daughter of Elizabeth ("Eliza") Oliver, who was the daughter of Charles Silver Oliver, a former High Sheriff of Cork and member of Parliament for Kilmallock in County Limerick, Ireland.
Avdotia Istomina (1799–1848), most celebrated 19th-century Imperial Russian ballerina; Anna Johansson (1860–1917), ballerina with the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet; Katya Jones (born 1993), dancer and choreographer, now in the United Kingdom; Vera Karalli (1889–1972), ballerina, Bolshoi Theatre, also film actress, ballet mistress ...
Ella Lola (September 2, 1883 – ?) [1] was an American vaudeville dancer at the end of the 19th century. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and, besides her stage appearances, was filmed in short Kinetoscope productions such as Ella Lola, a la Trilby (1898) which was an example of Trilbyana. [2] [3] [4]
Lola Montès is a 1955 historical romance film, and the last completed film of German-born director Max Ophüls.Based on the novel La vie extraordinaire de Lola Montès by Cécil Saint-Laurent, the film depicts the life of Irish dancer and courtesan Lola Montez (1821–1861), portrayed by Martine Carol, and tells the story of the most famous of her many notorious affairs, those with Franz ...
19th-century Indian dancers (7 P) 19th-century Italian dancers (1 C, 2 P) R. 19th-century dancers from the Russian Empire (1 C) S. 19th-century Spanish dancers (8 P)
She developed a series of dance styles combining Eastern aesthetic with Western technique during her time in the Qing imperial court. [18] In 12th-century Japan, the Shirabyoshi were famous for their dancing and poetry. One of the most famous was the court dancer Shizuka who appears in the Japanese literature of the period. [19]
Jean-Baptiste Barrez (28 November 1792 – 27 November 1868) was a French dancer and ballet master.. He was the son of surgeon Jean-Baptiste Barrez and Julie Jolivet. Barrez studied under Jean-Francois Coulon and was the principal dancer at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux from 1817 to 1821. [1]
Advertisement for a burlesque troupe, 1898 Souvenir programme for Ruy Blas and the Blasé Roué. American burlesque is a genre of variety show derived from elements of Victorian burlesque, music hall, and minstrel shows.