Solo character or speciality dance known from oral tradition in the southern Lake District and Scotland where it was usually taught to children. The dance was invented, or at any rate developed into it’s modern form by the American professional dancer Loie Fuller. Stainton Robinson sent his daughter Margaret Anne Robinson to her to learn the dance in the 1890s and it is perhaps through that contact that the dance became popular in the area.
Known to have been taught by the following dancing masters:
William Adamson of Kingskettle, Fife
Tommy Cannon of Crosthwaite
James Howson operating in Flookborough
Alfred Threlfall Robinson
Joseph William Robinson (Old Jos)
Stainton Robinson
Information derived from interviews by Tom Flett with:
- Airey, Mrs George
- Theodore Cannon
- Dorothy Chaplow
- Cowper, Arthur
- Cowper, Beatrice
- Cowper, Elsie
- Cowper, Oliver
- Cowper, Roland, Whitehaven, England, 6 January 1960
- Harold Edgar
- Hilton, Miss (Keswick)
- Keith, Gertrude
- Riley, Emma C.
- Robinson, Grace
- Robinson, Norman
- Satterthwaite, Mr & Mrs T
- Miss Lucy Short, White Platts, Ambleside, England, 3 January 1960