Les Salvaggis
Les Salvaggis (fl. 1900) was a company of dancers.
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The troupe
According to an article in the Seattle based newspaper The Town Crier (Vol.9, no.39, Sep. 26, 1914: p.13), Les Salvaggis were Parisian company of dancers who introduced "a number of terpsichorean effects recently put on in the French metropolis".
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Described by D.C. Boonzaier (1923) as "whirlwind dancers"[] from the Tivoli Theatre, they performed a solo act in the Bloemfontein Flood Benefit (a matinee benefit performance for the sufferers in the disastrous flood in Bloemfontein), put on in the Cape Town Opera House on 28 January, 1904, by a company brought together for the purpose by Grant Fallowes.
Sources
The Town Crier (Vol.9, no.39, Sep. 26, 1914: p.13)[1]
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 418.
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