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6701 results for: Keyword - Dance
We found 4004 matches on Performance Title, 3242 matches on Roles/Actors, 1418 matches on Performance Comments, 470 matches on Event Comments, and 19 matches on Author.

926
09 June 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Secret Tribunal

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Sailor

Afterpiece Title: The Tythe Pig

Cast
Role: Sylvan Dancers Actor:
Role: Dance Actor: Ganymede, Proteus, Hebe, Terpsichore

Dance: In 2nd piece: Double Hornpipe, as17950529

927
11 June 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Secret Tribunal

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Sailor

Cast
Role: Sylvan Dancers Actor:
Role: Dance Actor: Ganymede, Proteus, Hebe, Terpsichore

Afterpiece Title: The Tythe Pig

Cast
Role: Sylvan Dancers Actor:
Role: Dance Actor: Ganymede, Proteus, Hebe, Terpsichore

Dance: As17950609

928
15 June 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deserted Daughter

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Sailor

Cast
Role: Sylvan Dancers Actor:
Role: Dance Actor: Ganymede, Proteus, Hebe, Terpsichore

Afterpiece Title: The Tythe Pig

Cast
Role: Sylvan Dancers Actor:
Role: Dance Actor: Ganymede, Proteus, Hebe, Terpsichore

Dance: As17950609

929
17 June 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Sailor

Cast
Role: Sylvan Dancers Actor:
Role: Dance Actor: Ganymede, Proteus, Hebe, Terpsichore

Dance: Afterpiece: With a Treble Hornpipe-Ratchford, King, Mrs Ratchford

930
28 November 1735 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Dance: Peasant by Tench and Miss Rogers. Dance of Sailors (from orestes) by Glover, Tench, Desse, Delagarde, Livier, Richardson. Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. Faithful Shepherd by Glover, Miss Rogers, &c

Performance Comment: Dance of Sailors (from orestes) by Glover, Tench, Desse, Delagarde, Livier, Richardson. Pierrots by Nivelon and Lalauze. Faithful Shepherd by Glover, Miss Rogers, &c .

931
16 February 1751 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Dance by Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Revenge

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Dance: As17500926

932
12 October 1758 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Dance by Signor Grimaldi (Cross). Receipts: #170 (Cross); #154 12s. (Winston MS 8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid

Dance: I: The Millers-Sg Grimaldi, 1st time on that stage, Mrs Preston, Mrs Vernon, others

933
09 March 1762 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tolomeo

Performance Comment: Dance of three-Miss Asselin, Sg and Sga Binetti.
Cast
Role: Dance of three Actor: Miss Asselin, Sg and Sga Binetti.

934
30 May 1781 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber; Or, The Fruitless Precaution

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Dance: afterpiece: Master Byrn, Miss Byrn. [Danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performance Comment: [Danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

935
05 August 1710 @ Greenwich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess; Or, The Generous Portuguese

Dance: Whimsical Dance between a Miller, his Wife, and a Town Miss-; Chest Dance, after the Italian Manner, between Scaramouch, Punchanello, Coachman, and Cookmaid-; French Peasant and his Wife-; Ladder Dance-a famous Master; Scaramouch-LeSac; Dance by a Flemming in Wooden Shoes-; Dance by a Switzer-; Night Scene of Scaramouch, Harlequin, Cooper, Wife, and others-

936
05 May 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: IIrish Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; Serious Dance-Mrs Wall, Mrs Griffith, who never appear'd on this Stage before; French Peasant-Nivelon, Mrs Laguerre; Flag Dance-Nivelon

937
22 April 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Poictier and Salle. Receipts: money #32 19s.; tickets #62 15s. Probable attendance: boxes, 20 by money and 58 by tickets; stage, 3 by money; pit, 62 by money and 177 by tickets; slips, 6 by money; first gallery, 95 by money and 215 by tickets; second gallery, 87 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fortune Hunters

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Dance: End I: Scottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; III: Grand Dance of French Sailors-Poitier, Pelling, Newhouse, Dupre, Pagod, Mrs Bullock, Miss Latour, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Ogden; IV: Fingalian-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; V: A new Grand Dance of Moors-Glover, Pelling, Newhouse, Lanyon, Miss Latour, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Ogden; in which, at the Desire of several Persons of Quality, Kettle Drums-Poitier; End Farce: a new Grand Dance called Lads and Lasses-Poitier, Pelling, Newhouse, Dupre Jr, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Anderson, Miss Latour, Mrs Ogden

Song: II: Mrs Barbier; IV: Two English Ballads-Mrs Barbier

938
30 May 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Lawrence and Taylor, Boxkeepers. Receipts: money #14 14s.; tickets #90 13s. Probable attendance: boxes, 21 by money and 100 by tickets; stage, 1 by money; pit, 23 by money and 269 by tickets; slips, 2 by money; first gallery, 26 by money and 253 by tickets; second gallery, 31 by money

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Song: End I: The Merry Month of May-Miss Warren; IV: L'Amorche Parte Sento-Miss Warren

Dance: I: Milkmaids' Dance-; II: A new Dance to the Tune of Tamo Tanto-Miss LaTour; III: Scottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; V: Pastoral Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre

939
15 March 1731 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Music: Music Proper to the Play-Leveridge, Laguerre

Dance: I: Scottish Dance-Mrs Bullock; II: Scating Dance-Nivelon; III: Flag Dance-Nivelon; IV: Salle, Mlle Salle; V: Grand Dance of Momus-; The Sailor's Mistress-Mlle A-la-mode de Paris

940
13 April 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Dance: I: Pastoral-Vallois, lately arrived from the Opera at Paris, the first Time of his dancing in England; a Scholar to M Marcelle; II: Wooden Shoe Dance-Poitier; Serious Dance-Poitier, Mrs Laguerre; III: Sicilian Dance-Glover, Mrs Pelling; (at Desire) Two Pierrots-Poitier, Pelling; IV: Highlander and his Mistress-Salle, Mrs Laguerre; V: A new Peasant Dance-Poitier, Mrs Laguerre

Music: Grand Concert of Water Musick by Mr Randal [Handel?]-; [in which Poitier will beat the Kettle@Drums-Poitier

941
24 January 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Afterpiece Title: The Toy Shop

Dance: I: A Serious Dance-the eldest Miss Scott; II: Comic Dance-eldest Miss Scott's Sister; III: French Peasant-Lalauze; accompanied-others; IV: A new dance-two Misses Scott; V: A new Comic Dance-Nivelon, the Misses Scott

942
24 March 1737 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Dance: I: Clown-Nivelon; II: Grand Comic Dance-Lalauze; accompanied-Desse, Richardson, Baudouin, Mrs Moreau, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Delorme, Miss Norman; III: By particular Desire, The Louvre (a Ball Dance), concluding with a Minuet-Glover, Mrs Laguerre; IV: The Kilkenny (an Irish Dance)-Glover, Mrs Laguerre; V: Scot's Dance-Glover, Mrs Laguerre, Desse, Mrs Ogden, Tench, Mlle Delorme

Related Works
Related Work: Pamela Author(s): James Dance

943
23 March 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Dance: I: Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Lalauze; II: Dance of Sailors-Glover; III: Minuet, with a Ball Dance called The Marriee-Glover, Mlle Roland; IV: Grand Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland; V: Scots Dance-Glover, Mlle Roland

944
21 April 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

Dance: I: A New Peasant Dance-Picq, Mlle Auguste; III: A New Dance call'd the Quarrelling Lovers Reconciled-Dubuisson, Mlle Bonneval; IV: New Comic Dance, as17420419 V: A New Dance call'd Les Matelots-Dubuisson, Mlle Bonneval

945
26 March 1748 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Husband

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: I: Polish Dance, as17471109; III: Dutch Dance, as17471128; IV: Pastoral Dance-Cooke, Janeton Auretti; V: A Ball Dance, call'd The Louvre-; concluding with: a Minuet-Cooke, Anne Auretti

946
26 March 1753 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: I: A New Dance-Mlle Auguste; II: A Masquerade Dance-M Gerard first appearance from Paris, never appeared in England; III: A New Pierrot Dance-Devisse, Mlle Auguste; IV: The Matelot Basque-Ferrere; after the Country Dance-; The Louvre and Minuet-Devisse, Mlle Auguste

947
15 April 1755 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: I: Comic Entertainment, as17541203; II: a Serious Dance-Miss Poitier; III: Comic Dance-Lucas, Lepy; IV: Comic Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville; V: A Masquerade Dance, with aMinuet-Poitier Jr, Miss Poitier; To conclude with a Hornpipe-a scholar of Poitier Jr

Song: II: By Particular Desire The Choice-Miss Poitier

948
11 April 1758 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: I: Spanish Dance-Poitier Jr, Sga Banti; II: New Peasant Dance-Master Banti, Miss Wilford, her 1st on the stage, both scholars to Poitier Sr; III: A Dutch Dance-Poitier Jr, Sga Banti; IV: A Wooden Shoe Dance-Poitier Jr, Mlle Capdeville; V: A Minuet-Poitier, Sga Banti

949
25 April 1777 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad-Cap

Dance: End II: New Comic Dance-Master Jackson, Miss Parish (A pupil of Aldridge; 1st appearanae on the stage); End III: a new characteristic Irish Dance, The Humours of Leixlip; or, A Jaunt to the Salmon-Leap, in which an Irish Jigg,-Aldridge, Miss Besford; End IV: a new Comic Dance, The Coopers-Langrish, Master Jackson, Miss Nicols (Scholar to Aldridge; 1st appearance also); End: a new pantomimical Naval Dance, All in the Downs ; or, Farewell to Deal,-Aldridge, Jackson, Besford, Miss Besford, Miss Valois

950
28 April 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: to conclude with: Country Dance-the characters; End I: new Comic Dance-Langrish, Jackson, Miss Parish, Miss Lings; End II: a Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley; In III: Hornpipe, as17781212; End I afterpiece: a new Pantomimical Dance, The Sports of the Green-Aldridge, Langrish, Jackson, Miss Besford, Miss Parish, Miss Valois; in which his celebrated Tambourine Dance-Aldridge