2-913-902 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"The Spanish Dancers", at the Haymarket Theatre, 1854. London stage show: 'The Dancers are caught...in a moment of transition; and fixed to the eye; but the suggestion is present, and the fancy conducted onward, until the agility, the rapture, and the indescribable charm are conceived by the imagination...The pieces now selected for the renewal of our acquaintance with them, are the "Star of Andalusia," and the "Flower of the Port.;" in the former of which Senora Nena's pas mimique is certainly a very pleasing performance, though cast into the shade, fine as it is, by the superior excellence of Senora Perea. A Toleda Gitana, or Gipsy Dance, is also remarkably effective; indeed, we may venture to assert, literally intoxicating in its naivete, its complexity, its rapidity, its shrewdness, and its stimulating coquetry'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.