Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1879 — The Modern Stage Dancing. [ARTICLE]

The Modern Stage Dancing.

The modem school of French dancing was first introduced to a" horrified Bowery audience in February, 1827, by a Mme. Francisquay Hutin, who appeared in a pas seul at the conclusion of Much Ado About Nothing. There was a great crowd of curious sight-seers at the theater that evening, and it is said that when the danse use appeared in her regulation short skirts every lady in the lower tier of boxes and many gentlemen indignantly left the house. How all that* is changed in these days! The management was forced to put Mme. Hutin into Turkish trousers; but this did not improve matters much, aud the attempt to Introduce the dance, which all the rage in Paris, had to be abandoned for several seasons. This pioneer dancer made her last appearance in 1831, and died a widow and in poverty. —[New York Star.