Mademoiselle Emilia
(18**-18**) Belgian dancer and singer.
A member of the French Dramatic Artistes who had arrived from Mauritius as part of an Italian Circus led by Signor Severo and Dalle Case in November 1847. Later a member of the Dalle Case Company and the shortlived Theatre de L'Union, before departing at the end of 1848.
In this period she appeared in the comic dance De Gelukkige Man, of De Ontmoeting in het Donker (14 February, 1848) and did dances on the high wire ("koorddanse") as part of a "Grand Interlude of Music and Dancing" on 13 March 1848.
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [1]: pp. 435-438; 502-3.
Jill Fletcher, 1994
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