Alice AthertonW
Alice Atherton

Alice Atherton, was a dancer, comedian, actress, and theatrical performer during the late 19th century.

Hulda GarborgW
Hulda Garborg

Hulda Garborg was a Norwegian writer, novelist, playwright, poet, folk dancer, and theatre instructor. She was married to Arne Garborg, and is today perhaps best known for kindling interest in the bunad tradition.

Henriette Hendel-SchützW
Henriette Hendel-Schütz

Johanne Henriette Rosine Hendel-Schütz, née Schüler, (1772–1849) was a German actress, mimoplastic performer, dancer and singer.

Moran SarkarW
Moran Sarkar

Moran Sarkar was a Punjabi Queen who married Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Punjab in 1802. She was a nautch girl before she became a queen. Maharaja was tied to slings by Akali Phula Singh for marrying with her.

Nellie NavetteW
Nellie Navette

Nellie Navette was a well-known British music hall serio-comic performer of the late Victorian era. Famous as a pantomime Principal boy, comedienne, dancer and singer, she made frequent appearances at such venues as the East End Pavilion Theatre and the Tivoli Theatre of Varieties on The Strand where she appeared alongside such entertainers as Lottie Collins, George Robey, Tom Costello and Marie Lloyd, among others. In 1889 she appeared in the pantomime Little Jack and the Big Beanstalk at the Prince of Wales Theatre in Liverpool. In 1893 she introduced her new ‘Floral Electric Dance’ which she first performed at the Alhambra Theatre in Leicester Square in London with "kaleidoscopic effects" by Mr. A.L. Fyfe and specially written music by Georges Jacobi, In April 1893 she appeared at the opening night performance of the West London Theatre of Varieties in London, while in 1895 she introduced the song and accompanying dance The Coon's Serenade. In 1900 she was on the bill at the Tivoli Theatre in Birmingham.

Shamakhi dancersW
Shamakhi dancers

The Shamakhi dancers were the principal dancers of the entertainment groups that existed in Shamakhi up to the late 19th century. These groups worked similarly to tawaifs.

Lydia ThompsonW
Lydia Thompson

Lydia Thompson, was an English dancer, comedian, actress, and theatrical producer.

Fawdon VokesW
Fawdon Vokes

Fawdon Vokes was a British music hall, pantomime and burlesque actor and dancer who performed as a member of the Vokes Family of entertainers popular in the 1870s in Great Britain and the USA. For more than ten years they were the central attraction at the annual pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane from 1868 to 1879 when their popularity began to wane.

Jessie VokesW
Jessie Vokes

Jessie Vokes was a British music hall, pantomime and burlesque actress and dancer of the 19th-century and a member of the Vokes Family of entertainers. For more than ten years they were the central attraction at the annual pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane from 1868 to 1879 when their popularity began to wane.

Rosina VokesW
Rosina Vokes

Rosina Vokes was a British music hall, pantomime and burlesque actress and dancer and a member of the Vokes Family troupe of entertainers before having a successful career in her own right in North America from 1885 to 1893.

Victoria VokesW
Victoria Vokes

Victoria Vokes was a British music hall, pantomime and burlesque actress and dancer of the 19th-century and a member of the Vokes Family of entertainers. For more than ten years they were the central attraction at the annual pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane from 1868 to 1879 when their popularity began to wane.

Sada YaccoW
Sada Yacco

Sada Yacco or Sadayakko was a Japanese geisha, actress and dancer.