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Dance Famous People
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1. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Robert Ellis Dunn
Bill T. Jones
Anton Dolin
Massine
2. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Twyla Tharp
Louis Horst
Jean Baptiste Lande
Mary Wigman
3. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Fokine
Charles Weidman
Alvin Ailey
Leon Bakst
4. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Marius Petipa
Arthur Saint-Leon
Jean Baptiste Lande
Theophile Gautier
5. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Mary Wigman
Massine
Ivanov
Diaghilev
6. First lady of modern dance
Ruth St. Denis
Hanya Holm
Louis Horst
Jules Perrot
7. Father of classical ballet
Marius Petipa
Charles Didelot
Mary Wigman
Leon Bakst
8. Choreographed Deeply There in 1988 in response to the AIDS epidemic
Merce Cunningham
Alvin Ailey
Joe Goode
Suzanne Linglor
9. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Lincoln Kirstein
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Ivanov
Louis Horst
10. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
Jules Perrot
Leon Bakst
Charles Weidman
Twyla Tharp
11. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Theophile Gautier
Marie Taglioni
Fokine
Ivanov
12. Financed Balanchine to come to US - helped found New York City Ballet - served as general director
Louis Horst
Garth Fagan
Balanchine
Lincoln Kirstein
13. First female ballet choreographer of the 20th century
Nijinska
Ivanov
Balanchine
Nijinsky
14. Writer of Giselle
Lincoln Kirstein
Theophile Gautier
Merce Cunningham
Ivanov
15. Choreographed Lion King
Garth Fagan
Balanchine
Ruth St. Denis
Jose Limon
16. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Merce Cunningham
Leon Bakst
Alvin Ailey
Garth Fagan
17. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German dance to U.S. but Americanized her technique.
Arthur Mitchell
Hanya Holm
Merce Cunningham
Louis Horst
18. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Rudolph Nureyev
Rudolph Laban
Balanchine
Arthur Mitchell
19. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Pilobolus
Diaghilev
Paul Taylor
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
20. African American modern Dance choreographer
Paul Taylor
Bill T. Jones
Pilobolus
Balanchine
21. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Merce Cunningham
Rudolph Laban
Massine
Nijinska
22. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Rudolph Laban
Alwin Nikolais
Massine
Fred Astaire
23. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Nijinska
Ruth St. Denis
Anton Dolin
Theophile Gautier
24. Co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet
Ruth St. Denis
Milhaud
Jean Jacques Rousseau
George Balanchine
25. Father of Russian ballet
Charles Didelot
Ruth St. Denis
Robert Joffrey
Mary Wigman
26. Class grew into Judson's Church Group
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Robert Ellis Dunn
Bill T. Jones
Pilobolus
27. Agon - 1957
Arthur Saint-Leon
Balanchine
Merce Cunningham
Bill T. Jones
28. 1st Albrecht
Lucien Petipa
Paul Taylor
Diaghilev
Milhaud
29. Composer for 'The Afternoon of a Faun'
Dr. Louis Vernon
Debussy
Lincoln Kirstein
Ruth St. Denis
30. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Ruth St. Denis
Nijinska
Rudolph Nureyev
Fokine
31. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Busby Berkeley
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Rudolph Nureyev
Jules Perrot
32. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Nijinsky
Charles Weidman
Balanchine
Robert Ellis Dunn
33. Choreographed La Sylphide
Philip Taglioni
Robert Ellis Dunn
Anton Dolin
Fanny Elssler
34. Four Temperaments
Balanchine
Marius Petipa
Jules Perrot
Diaghilev
35. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Jean Baptiste Lande
Alvin Ailey
Diaghilev
Busby Berkeley
36. Played Swanilda in Coppelia
Merce Cunningham
Alvin Ailey
Merce Cunningham
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
37. Known for her 'Pagan' style of dance
Fanny Elssler
Debussy
Lincoln Kirstein
Folkine - Nijinsky
38. One of the most prolific jazz composers of the 20th century
Milhaud
Debussy
Dr. Louis Vernon
Doris Humphrey
39. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Anton Dolin
Hanya Holm
Marius Petipa
Fanny Elssler
40. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Pilobolus
George Balanchine
Fokine
Nijinska
41. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Balanchine
Loie Fuller
Paul Taylor
Busby Berkeley
42. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Merce Cunningham
Hanya Holm
Jules Perrot
Charles Didelot
43. Impressionist music
Arthur Mitchell
Diaghilev
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Debussy
44. La Spectre de la Rose
Ginger Rogers
Loie Fuller
Balanchine
Folkine - Nijinsky
45. Turned profits by slashing salaries of ballerinas so jockey club friends could have them as mistresses
Nijinska
Anton Dolin
Balanchine
Dr. Louis Vernon
46. Rite of Spring
Folkine - Nijinsky
Nijinsky
Alwin Nikolais
Dr. Louis Vernon
47. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Milhaud
Merce Cunningham
Balanchine
Ginger Rogers
48. Apollo - 1928
Balanchine
Ivanov
Milhaud
Suzanne Linglor
49. Choreographed Jeux
Nijinsky
Arthur Saint-Leon
Alwin Nikolais
Pilobolus
50. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Mary Wigman
Massine
Nijinsky