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Dance Famous People
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Known for two ballet styles of Symphonic ballet: comedic and satirical
Charles Weidman
Massine
Folkine - Nijinsky
Bill T. Jones
2. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Lincoln Kirstein
Charles Didelot
Marius Petipa
Robert Ellis Dunn
3. Still/Here
Milhaud
Garth Fagan
Marius Petipa
Bill T. Jones
4. Pelvic contraction and release
Louis Horst
Nijinsky
Rudolph Nureyev
Nijinska
5. Danced in Berkeley's movies - First movie dancing star of 1930's 42nd street led to her success
Arthur Saint-Leon
Dr. Louis Vernon
Bill T. Jones
Ruby Keeler
6. First male dancer to make an impression in U.S.
Jules Perrot
Massine
Mary Wigman
Rudolph Nureyev
7. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Martha Graham
Marius Petipa
Theophile Gautier
Nijinsky
8. Writer of Giselle
Pilobolus
Jean Baptiste Lande
Balanchine
Theophile Gautier
9. Choreographed La Sylphide
Ivanov
Arthur Saint-Leon
Doris Humphrey
Philip Taglioni
10. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Ruth St. Denis
Ginger Rogers
Paul Taylor
Charles Weidman
11. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Pilobolus
Marius Petipa
Balanchine
Paul Taylor
12. Turned profits by slashing salaries of ballerinas so jockey club friends could have them as mistresses
Massine
Doris Humphrey
Dr. Louis Vernon
Ruth St. Denis
13. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Mary Wigman
Arthur Mitchell
Diaghilev
Twyla Tharp
14. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Theophile Gautier
Busby Berkeley
Loie Fuller
Mary Wigman
15. Father of classical ballet
Milhaud
Mary Wigman
Marius Petipa
Joe Goode
16. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Pilobolus
Merce Cunningham
Lincoln Kirstein
Alvin Ailey
17. Co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet
Nijinsky
George Balanchine
Twyla Tharp
Rudolph Nureyev
18. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Pilobolus
Bill T. Jones
Jose Limon
19. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Garth Fagan
Rudolph Nureyev
Rudolph Nureyev
Milhaud
20. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Rudolph Nureyev
Fokine
Margaret Sanger
Marius Petipa
21. Movement in hips
Doris Humphrey
Pilobolus
Nijinsky
Arthur Mitchell
22. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Theophile Gautier
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Arthur Saint-Leon
Paul Taylor
23. Choregraphed (the sleeping beauty and nutcracker - swan lake)
Marius Petipa
Robert Joffrey
Nijinska
Charles Didelot
24. Choreographed Jeux
Lincoln Kirstein
Nijinsky
Alvin Ailey
Leon Bakst
25. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Balanchine
Diaghilev
Busby Berkeley
August Bournonville
26. Pioneer of modern dance in Germany
Mary Wigman
Margaret Sanger
Busby Berkeley
Leon Bakst
27. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Fokine
Charles Weidman
Lucien Petipa
Pilobolus
28. Considered the greatest male dancer of the romantic era
Merce Cunningham
Jules Perrot
Doris Humphrey
Robert Ellis Dunn
29. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
Anton Dolin
Jules Perrot
Ruby Keeler
Alvin Ailey
30. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Pilobolus
George Balanchine
Rudolph Nureyev
Marius Petipa
31. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Paul Taylor
Rudolph Nureyev
Milhaud
Diaghilev
32. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Nijinska
Leon Bakst
Rudolph Nureyev
Diaghilev
33. Launched careers of 5 great choreographers
Rudolph Nureyev
Merce Cunningham
Diaghilev
Mikhail Baryshnikov
34. 1st Albrecht
Alvin Ailey
Arthur Saint-Leon
Lucien Petipa
Merce Cunningham
35. Choreographed Lion King
Marius Petipa
Arthur Mitchell
Nijinska
Garth Fagan
36. Acts of Light
Rudolph Laban
Arthur Mitchell
Massine
Martha Graham
37. Rite of Spring
Balanchine
Nijinsky
Robert Ellis Dunn
Dr. Louis Vernon
38. One of the most prolific jazz composers of the 20th century
Milhaud
Merce Cunningham
Jean Baptiste Lande
Leon Bakst
39. Founded American Dance Theater in New York City
Diaghilev
Charles Didelot
Marius Petipa
Alvin Ailey
40. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Rudolph Laban
Jose Limon
Merce Cunningham
Ruth St. Denis
41. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Ginger Rogers
Doris Humphrey
Diaghilev
Charles Didelot
42. First lady of modern dance
Lincoln Kirstein
Alwin Nikolais
Charles Weidman
Ruth St. Denis
43. Choreographed Deeply There in 1988 in response to the AIDS epidemic
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Joe Goode
Arthur Saint-Leon
Balanchine
44. Choreographed 'Revelations'
Marius Petipa
Alvin Ailey
Fred Astaire
Mary Wigman
45. Named the mother of modern dance
Mary Wigman
Merce Cunningham
Marius Petipa
Leon Bakst
46. Petrouchka
Marius Petipa
Bill T. Jones
Fokine
Arthur Mitchell
47. Brought ballet to Paris
Leon Bakst
Diaghilev
Busby Berkeley
Charles Weidman
48. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Theophile Gautier
Diaghilev
Fokine
Margaret Sanger
49. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Doris Humphrey
Hanya Holm
Marius Petipa
Mary Wigman
50. D Man in the Water
Diaghilev
Fokine
Bill T. Jones
Milhaud