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Such performances would also be carried on during the carousal which often followed deep into the night, and to these may be added posture-dances by girls from Cadiz, juggling and acrobatic feats, and other forms of "variety" entertainment.
In these pieces no masks were worn and also no shoes, and the women's parts taken in the other instances by men and boys were actually played by females, whose posture-dances were no credit to their sex. The dumb-shows or "pantomimes" were performances in which expressive and elaborate gestures and movements were left to tell the whole tale.
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