The Dancing Scotchman

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The Dancing Scotchman is the name of a dramatized dance performance or ballet created by Richard Flexmore (1824-1860) and Francesca Auriol ().


The original text

Created, choreographed and danced by the performers Richard Flexmore (1824-1860) and Francesca Auriol () in London in 1854.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: A "new and interesting ballet" called The Dancing Scotchman, or Love in all Corners was performed by the Le Roy and Duret theatre company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, as afterpiece to a performance of Retribution (Taylor). It was most probably a work created by members of the company, based on the earlier work.

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 111, 115

Allan Stuart Jackson. 1993. The Standard Theatre of Victorian England. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: p. 118[1]