Ivan Tschernoff Koster & Bial's New Season: [...] Better dancing, because more novel and interesting, was done by three of the dogs in Ivan Tschernoff's troupe, who wore voluminous robes and trottes on their hind legs through the serpentine mazes, grinning in the many-hued light like genuine terpsichorean votaries.
The New York Times, New York, 11 septembre 1894, p. 5.