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Dance Famous People
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1. Co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet
George Balanchine
Jules Perrot
Alvin Ailey
Leon Bakst
2. Afternoon of a Faun
Anton Dolin
Nijinsky
Balanchine
Debussy
3. AVANT GARDE -CHOREOGRAPHED AUREOLE
Diaghilev
Rudolph Nureyev
Paul Taylor
Debussy
4. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Rudolph Nureyev
Theophile Gautier
Debussy
Marius Petipa
5. African astheic choreography
Suzanne Linglor
Alwin Nikolais
Debussy
Balanchine
6. Brought ballet to the common person
Anna Pavlova
Balanchine
Rudolph Nureyev
Fred Astaire
7. Listed as choreographer of Giselle because He was widely respected
Mary Wigman
Rudolph Nureyev
Jean Coralli
Folkine - Nijinsky
8. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Jules Perrot
Doris Humphrey
Rudolph Nureyev
Paul Taylor
9. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Alvin Ailey
Arthur Mitchell
Robert Joffrey
Fokine
10. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Doris Humphrey
Fred Astaire
Louis Horst
Robert Joffrey
11. Father of Russian ballet
Charles Didelot
Nijinsky
Pilobolus
Arthur Saint-Leon
12. Writer of Giselle
Pilobolus
Martha Graham
Debussy
Theophile Gautier
13. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Massine
Alwin Nikolais
Joe Goode
Milhaud
14. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Massine
Rudolph Nureyev
Alwin Nikolais
Doris Humphrey
15. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
Fred Astaire
Jules Perrot
Robert Ellis Dunn
Diaghilev
16. One of the most prolific jazz composers of the 20th century
Milhaud
Suzanne Linglor
Twyla Tharp
Diaghilev
17. Petrouchka
Rudolph Laban
Fokine
Anna Pavlova
Jules Perrot
18. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Suzanne Linglor
Rudolph Nureyev
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Rudolph Laban
19. Pelvic contraction and release
Alwin Nikolais
Lincoln Kirstein
George Balanchine
Louis Horst
20. Choreographed La Sylphide
Joe Goode
Robert Ellis Dunn
Philip Taglioni
Alvin Ailey
21. Shortened skirt to show off pointe work - starred in La Sylphide
Marie Taglioni
Dr. Louis Vernon
Arthur Saint-Leon
Ivanov
22. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Twyla Tharp
Nijinska
Massine
Rudolph Nureyev
23. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Balanchine
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Ruth St. Denis
Charles Weidman
24. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Balanchine
Marius Petipa
Mary Wigman
Fokine
25. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Diaghilev
Alwin Nikolais
Merce Cunningham
Ginger Rogers
26. Considered the greatest male dancer of the romantic era
Charles Didelot
Jules Perrot
Alwin Nikolais
Twyla Tharp
27. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Marius Petipa
Diaghilev
Ginger Rogers
Charles Didelot
28. Played Swanilda in Coppelia
George Balanchine
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Charles Didelot
Ivanov
29. La Spectre de la Rose
Mary Wigman
Ruth St. Denis
Folkine - Nijinsky
Rudolph Nureyev
30. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Nijinsky
Mary Wigman
Doris Humphrey
Pilobolus
31. Wrote against male dancers
Lucien Petipa
Ruth St. Denis
Leon Bakst
Theophile Gautier
32. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Nijinska
Milhaud
Jules Perrot
Nijinsky
33. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Arthur Saint-Leon
Dr. Louis Vernon
Hanya Holm
Jean Coralli
34. Pioneer of modern dance in Germany
Nijinsky
Balanchine
Mary Wigman
Louis Horst
35. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Folkine - Nijinsky
Nijinska
Jules Perrot
Leon Bakst
36. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German dance to U.S. but Americanized her technique.
Marie Taglioni
Hanya Holm
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Charles Didelot
37. First lady of modern dance
Ruth St. Denis
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Ivanov
Jules Perrot
38. Choreographed Deeply There in 1988 in response to the AIDS epidemic
Jean Baptiste Lande
Garth Fagan
Joe Goode
Balanchine
39. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Diaghilev
Milhaud
Fred Astaire
Hanya Holm
40. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Fokine
Rudolph Nureyev
Paul Taylor
Mikhail Baryshnikov
41. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Philip Taglioni
Loie Fuller
Suzanne Linglor
Ivanov
42. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Bill T. Jones
Massine
Merce Cunningham
Arthur Mitchell
43. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Leon Bakst
Paul Taylor
Merce Cunningham
Nijinska
44. Named the mother of modern dance
Ruby Keeler
Nijinska
Mary Wigman
Nijinska
45. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Nijinsky
Hanya Holm
Rudolph Nureyev
Theophile Gautier
46. REBELLED AGAINST IDEA THAT DANCE HAD TO HAVE MEANING
Arthur Saint-Leon
Merce Cunningham
Jose Limon
Lincoln Kirstein
47. Movement in hips
Pilobolus
Ruth St. Denis
Rudolph Nureyev
Arthur Mitchell
48. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Theophile Gautier
August Bournonville
Alwin Nikolais
Arthur Saint-Leon
49. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Margaret Sanger
Louis Horst
Nijinska
Busby Berkeley
50. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Nijinska
Ruth St. Denis
Bill T. Jones
Arthur Saint-Leon