Norka Rouskaya

Norka Rouskaya (born Delia Franciscus in 1899) was a Swiss eccentric dancer and actress.

She trained as a dancer and performed in major theaters in France and Italy.

On 5 November 1917 Rouskaya, accompanied by her mother and several local men, including the author José Carlos Marategui, performed an interpretive dance to Chopin's Funeral March in the Cementerio Presbítero Matías Maestro in Lima, Peru.

[3][4] She was arrested upon her return to the Maury Hotel, where she had been staying, and was taken to the Convent of St. Thomas with her mother, where the women's prison was operated.

[5] In 1918 she cancelled a tour to dance in Cuba and South America and went to New York to pursue a career in film.

Rouskaya performing in costume.