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La Gypsy
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- In Fanny Elssler
” In La Gypsy (1839), made famous by her performance of the cracovienne, a Polish folk dance, and in La Tarentule (1839), she revealed extraordinary pantomimic ability. Her sensational success in Le Diable boiteux (1836), in which she introduced the Spanish cachucha, challenged Taglioni’s supremacy. To unseat…
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