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Dance Famous People
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Still/Here
Leon Bakst
Massine
Bill T. Jones
Marius Petipa
2. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Mary Wigman
Jean Jacques Rousseau
August Bournonville
Robert Ellis Dunn
3. Brought ballet to Paris
Jose Limon
Paul Taylor
Diaghilev
Merce Cunningham
4. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
Jules Perrot
Arthur Saint-Leon
Fokine
Busby Berkeley
5. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Anton Dolin
Alwin Nikolais
Merce Cunningham
Mary Wigman
6. One of the most prolific jazz composers of the 20th century
Balanchine
Milhaud
Balanchine
Merce Cunningham
7. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Ruth St. Denis
Fanny Elssler
Arthur Mitchell
Rudolph Nureyev
8. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Rudolph Nureyev
Marie Taglioni
Jules Perrot
Theophile Gautier
9. Professional tennis player Who was known for using ballet skills on the court
George Balanchine
Suzanne Linglor
Nijinsky
Robert Ellis Dunn
10. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Pilobolus
Robert Ellis Dunn
Louis Horst
Balanchine
11. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Nijinsky
Leon Bakst
Alwin Nikolais
Charles Didelot
12. African astheic choreography
Ginger Rogers
Jean Coralli
Balanchine
Joe Goode
13. Petrouchka
Balanchine
Busby Berkeley
Rudolph Nureyev
Fokine
14. Financed Balanchine to come to US - helped found New York City Ballet - served as general director
Lincoln Kirstein
Theophile Gautier
Hanya Holm
Fred Astaire
15. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Rudolph Nureyev
Fanny Elssler
Ruby Keeler
Jean Baptiste Lande
16. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Busby Berkeley
Nijinsky
Fokine
Theophile Gautier
17. La Spectre de la Rose
Balanchine
Folkine - Nijinsky
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Debussy
18. Four Temperaments
Balanchine
Nijinsky
Alvin Ailey
Louis Horst
19. Musician who had an impact on Modern Dance -Created choreography at Merce Cunningham's Studio
Folkine - Nijinsky
Robert Ellis Dunn
Merce Cunningham
Mikhail Baryshnikov
20. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Ruth St. Denis
Nijinsky
Fokine
Robert Ellis Dunn
21. Movement in hips
Arthur Mitchell
Paul Taylor
Folkine - Nijinsky
Rudolph Nureyev
22. First female ballet choreographer of the 20th century
Merce Cunningham
Louis Horst
Robert Ellis Dunn
Nijinska
23. Named the mother of modern dance
Hanya Holm
Folkine - Nijinsky
Mary Wigman
Debussy
24. Turned profits by slashing salaries of ballerinas so jockey club friends could have them as mistresses
August Bournonville
Dr. Louis Vernon
Milhaud
Margaret Sanger
25. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Hanya Holm
Jules Perrot
Diaghilev
Busby Berkeley
26. D Man in the Water
Mary Wigman
Bill T. Jones
Theophile Gautier
Busby Berkeley
27. Listed as choreographer of Giselle because He was widely respected
Charles Didelot
Jean Coralli
Arthur Saint-Leon
Alvin Ailey
28. Pelvic contraction and release
Louis Horst
Lincoln Kirstein
Jules Perrot
Nijinska
29. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Nijinska
Balanchine
Charles Didelot
Philip Taglioni
30. Agon - 1957
Milhaud
Balanchine
Diaghilev
Massine
31. Co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet
Arthur Saint-Leon
Leon Bakst
George Balanchine
Bill T. Jones
32. REBELLED AGAINST IDEA THAT DANCE HAD TO HAVE MEANING
Rudolph Nureyev
Robert Ellis Dunn
Merce Cunningham
Marius Petipa
33. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Leon Bakst
Loie Fuller
Busby Berkeley
Fokine
34. Known for brilliant divertissments
Debussy
Martha Graham
Marie Taglioni
Arthur Saint-Leon
35. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Balanchine
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Arthur Mitchell
Doris Humphrey
36. Choreographed Deeply There in 1988 in response to the AIDS epidemic
Joe Goode
Diaghilev
Debussy
Jules Perrot
37. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Theophile Gautier
Arthur Mitchell
Nijinsky
Jean Coralli
38. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet
Arthur Saint-Leon
Anton Dolin
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Debussy
39. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Rudolph Nureyev
Paul Taylor
Nijinsky
Diaghilev
40. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Leon Bakst
Massine
Alwin Nikolais
Nijinska
41. Composer for 'The Afternoon of a Faun'
Nijinska
Charles Weidman
Debussy
Mikhail Baryshnikov
42. Afternoon of a Faun
Nijinsky
Ivanov
Marius Petipa
Ruth St. Denis
43. Rite of Spring
Nijinsky
Balanchine
Folkine - Nijinsky
Doris Humphrey
44. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Charles Weidman
Marie Taglioni
Merce Cunningham
Doris Humphrey
45. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Charles Didelot
Massine
Lincoln Kirstein
Ruth St. Denis
46. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Balanchine
Diaghilev
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Robert Ellis Dunn
47. Acts of Light
Martha Graham
Rudolph Nureyev
Bill T. Jones
Alvin Ailey
48. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Merce Cunningham
Arthur Saint-Leon
Ivanov
Pilobolus
49. Pioneer of modern dance in Germany
Louis Horst
Leon Bakst
Mary Wigman
Martha Graham
50. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Paul Taylor
Marius Petipa
Dr. Louis Vernon
Pilobolus