Kate Vaughan
Kate Vaughan , née Catherine Candelon (* 1852 in Toronto , Ontario ; † February 21, 1903 in Johannesburg ), was an English dancer and burlesque actress.
biography
Kate Vaughan studied classical dance and acting at the Grecian Theater in London . Her father worked there as an orchestra musician. As a teenager she performed in various music halls and theaters in London. She was next to Lydia Thompson , one of the most famous representatives of the skirt dance . 1873 she presents the Rock Dance for the first time in London's Holborn Royal Amphitheater, in the operetta Orphée aux Enfers by Jacques Offenbach .
In 1876 she got an engagement at the Gaiety Theater and worked there for ten years as an actress, singer and dancer, together with Nellie Darren, Edward Royce and Edward Terry. In the same year she was also engaged by the Parisian Théâtre des Variétés .
The famous English writer John Ruskin and Edward Burne-Jones , English painter and one of the leading representatives of the Pre-Raphaelites, were among her admirers. The latter named her Miriam Ariadne Salome Vaughan .
In many burlesque dramas, such as The Forty Thieves (1880) or Young Fra Diavolo , the dances of Kate Vaughan could be seen.
In 1883 she married Colonel Frederick Wellesley, son of the first Earl of Cowley, and turned more to acting, but often performed as a dancer. After the divorce and a long illness, a tour of South Africa followed. Kate Vaughan died in Johannesburg in 1903 . She was buried in the Braamfontain cemetery.
literature
- Brygida M. Ochaim, Claudia Balk: Variety dancers around 1900. From sensual intoxication to modern dance, exhibition by the German Theater Museum in Munich, October 23, 1998– January 17, 1999. , Stroemfeld, Frankfurt / M. 1998, ISBN 3-87877-745-0
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vaughan, Kate |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British dancer and burlesque actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1903 |
| Place of death | Johannesburg |