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The Daily Dispatch: February 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], A remarkable dancer. (search)
hand without bending his leg all the time. The practitioners in gymnastics will understand the difficulty of achieving this feat standing on two legs. That part of Senor Donato's performance, however, which engages most attention and creates the greatest excitement, is the cloak dance. How the dancer flings the cloak around him, making it assume all sorts of fanciful shapes — now clothing his body with it, transforming it, as it were, into a sea shell; now waving the mantle over him like a banner; and now changing it into a floating cloudland, making it descend like a mist around him — must be seen to be understood. Enough, let us hope, has been said to show that Senor Donato is one of the most remarkable performers of this or any age; and that London is about to do his talents full justice, following the example of many of the towns and cities of the continent, is evident from the crowds that attend Convent Garden nightly, and from the immense enthusiasm his performance creates.