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Updated: June 17, 2025
The other skinny-legged discontented ones exercised their discontent on their patient mothers, instead of exercising it on their own big toes. THEY never were heard of, whereas Taglioni pranced on HER big toe before every court in Europe, and her smile, which ultimately became natural, attracted the opera glasses of all the great men.
On being told, as she gazed upon the intrepid self-exposure of Taglioni, "qu'il fallait être sage pour danser comme ça," Miss S. observes, that it requires to be more or less than woman, and proposes to divide the human species into men, women, and OPERA-DANCERS, little suspecting that half her readers translate such a classification into "men, women, and ANGELS;" or that they would see herself and her sister moralist go down in the President without a pang, provided Elssler and Taglioni were saved from the deep!
Went to the Opera last night, where I saw the début of the new danseuse Taglioni. Hers is a totally new style of dancing; graceful beyond all comparison, wonderful lightness, an absence of all violent effort, or at least of the appearance of it, and a modesty as new as it is delightful to witness in her art.
Then she exclaimed, with the obstinacy of a spoiled child: "Very well! I will return hopping on one foot; I could hop very well when I was young, I should be able to do so now." To give more weight to this observation, she took two little jumps with a grace and sprightliness worthy of Mademoiselle Taglioni. Octave arose.
Then Monsieur Gravier, in the course of a tour, had persuaded Mademoiselle Mars to write her name on this album, with Mademoiselles Georges, Taglioni, and Grisi, and some distinguished actors, such as Frederick Lemaitre, Monrose, Bouffe, Rubini, Lablache, Nourrit, and Arnal; for he knew a set of old fellows brought up in the seraglio, as they phrased it, who did him this favor.
Then she exclaimed, with the obstinacy of a spoiled child: "Very well! I will return hopping on one foot; I could hop very well when I was young, I should be able to do so now." To give more weight to this observation, she took two little jumps with a grace and sprightliness worthy of Mademoiselle Taglioni. Octave arose.
Don't you see what a stroke of business you might do in this way. "The shoemaker. Lady Fanny flew, rather than danced, across the ball-room; only a Sylphide, or Taglioni, or a lady chausseed by Chevillett of Bond Street could move in that fairy way; and "The hairdresser. 'Count Barbarossa is seventy years of age, said the Earl.
Floracita may have learned it from her mother, who was half French, half Spanish. You doubtless observed the foreign sprinkling in their talk. They told me they never spoke English with their mother. Those who have seen her describe her as a wonderful creature, who danced like Taglioni and sang like Malibran, and was more beautiful than her daughter Rosabella.
Two of our relatives, Frau Amalie Beer and our beloved Moritz von Oppenfeld, subscribed for boxes in the opera-house, and when they did not use them, which often happened, sent us the key. So as a boy I heard most of the operas produced at that time, and I saw the ballets, of which Frederick William IV was especially fond, and which Taglioni understood how to arrange so admirably.
I cannot help it any more, that is certain, and feel about that as about all things that have had their day it must go. Taglioni is like a dream, and you must not abuse Mademoiselle Mars to me. I never saw her but twice in "L'Ecole des Vieillards" and "Valérie" and I thought her perfection in both.... If I do not leave off, you will be blind for the next fortnight with reading this crossed letter.
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