Katie Seymour

Katie Seymour
Katie Seymour as Alice in A Runaway Girl
Katie Seymour as Alice in A Runaway Girl
Born(1870-01-09)9 January 1870
Nottingham, England
Died7 September 1903(1903-09-07) (aged 33)
London, England
Other namesKate Seymour Athol
OccupationBritish dancer

Katie Seymour (9 January 1870 – 7 September 1903)[1][2][3] was a British Victorian burlesque and Edwardian musical comedy entertainer who was remembered primarily for her dancing. She was considered, if not the first, one of the first to perform a style of dance called the skirt dance.[4] Seymour began in song and dance routines at a very young age and would go on to appear in a string of highly successful long-running musicals staged at London's Gaiety Theatre during the 1890s. She fell ill in 1903 while on a theatrical tour of British South Africa and died not long after her return voyage home.[5]

  1. ^ Birth year derived from an 1876 newspaper article that described her as a six-year-old child and from a number of obituaries and her death certificate that stated her age at the time as thirty-three – England & Wales, Death Index, 1837–1915. Other sources suggest she may have been born in 1868 or 1869
  2. ^ "Drawing Room Entertainment". London Stratford Times and Bow and Bromley News and South Essex Gazette. 15 March 1876. p. 5. Retrieved 14 November 2023 – via NewspaperArchive.
  3. ^ Gänzl, Kurt (2001). The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre. Vol. 3. Schirmer Books. p. 1837. ISBN 0028649702. Retrieved 14 November 2023 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ Knowles, Mark, 2002. The Roots: The Early History of Tap Dancing, p. 154 Retrieved 13 February 2014
  5. ^ "Death of Miss Kate Seymour". London Daily Mail. 8 September 1903. p. 3. Retrieved 14 November 2023 – via NewspaperArchive.