The Dancing Scotchman

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A dance performance called The Dancing Scotchman was created, choreographed and danced by the performers Richard Flexmore (1824-1860) and Francesca Auriol () in London in 1854.

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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).

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]