Script for the pre-Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire
Photograph from Beauties of Lucknow
J.J. (Nicolas Jean-Jacques) Masset (1811–1903), composer
Le Malapou, or The Love Dance, Performed by The Bayaderes, Amany, Tille, Saundirounn, and Ramgounl, at the Theatre Royal Adelphi, Composed by J.J. Masset.
London: Mori & Lavenu
Lithograph, 1838
Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Le Malapou, or The Love Dance, Performed by The Bayaderes, Amany, Tille, Saundirounn, and Ramgounl, at the Theatre Royal Adelphi, Composed by J.J. Masset.
This lithograph depicts the first performance of Indian dance in the West. A group of Hindu devadasis (known as bayaderes, from the Portuguese bailadera) toured Europe in 1838 at the invitation of the French impresario E.C. Tardival. He commissioned artists of India’s Perumal Temple of Thiruvanthipuram to form a troupe of five dancers and three musicians (Ramalinga Mudali, Savaranim, and Deveneyagorum) for 18 months. During this time, they performed in the most popular venues in London and Paris and gave a command performance before King Louis Philippe of France.
: Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing A…
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