Signora Violante

[1][2] Her performances in these shows included rope dancing with flags, sometimes advertised in bills as "The Flourishing of the Colours"; her rope-dancing inspired a poem published in Oxoniensis on 6 June 1720.

[2] She was in Dublin in 1727,[1] and returned to London's Haymarket Theatre with a new company to perform regularly from 23 October to 6 May 1728, including a pantomime The Rivals in which she featured in the role of Colombina.

[2] The company performed The Rivals in Bristol in the summer of 1728,[2] where her husband Senor Violante slid on a rope across the River Severn, from St Vincent's Rocks in Clifton, a distance of 550 yards in thirty seconds, before a crowd of spectators.

[1] One show was a pirated version of The Beggar's Opera, the cast of which included Peg Woffington,[1] whom Violante "discovered" as a child, carrying water to her mother's wash-house, and subsequently coached.

[2][8] In 1735 Signora Violante settled in Edinburgh, where she rented the lower floor of the hall of the Incorporation of Mary's Chapel from 1738[9] and continued to perform as a rope-dancer, and ran a dance school.