Due to the success of The Black Crook in the late nineteenth century, more Americans began
attending performances by touring European dancers. Throughout the early years of the twentieth
century, European ballet companies enjoyed favorable receptions from American audiences, and
American schools of dance were founded to provide ballerinas for the corps de ballet. Danish ballet
dancer Adeline Genée performed in New York in 1907 and toured the country through 1908. She
received a heart-shaped locket inscribed with the words, “merely a symbol of your conquest of the
heart of New York and that of your Yankee managers