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Violante was Italian or French, and was active as a performer from 1720. She was married to an Italian, Senor Violante, a rope-slider. Neither her maiden or married name are known for certain, and she and her husband are also sometimes named as Larini in contemporary newspaper accounts. She
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Violante had a large impact on the Dublin theatre scene of the early 18th century. She worked in Dublin for three theatre seasons, during which time, in 1730, Violante and her principal dancer
Lalauze established the Dame Street Booth, a rival to the
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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 and continued to perform as a rope-dancer, and ran a dance school. Signora Violante died in 1741.
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where she lived in
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theatres. 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
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in the summer of 1728, where her husband Senor
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