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Dance Famous People
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1. Brought ballet to Paris
Ruby Keeler
Ivanov
Diaghilev
Suzanne Linglor
2. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet
Rudolph Nureyev
Rudolph Laban
Rudolph Nureyev
Anton Dolin
3. Known for brilliant divertissments
Arthur Saint-Leon
Charles Weidman
Marie Taglioni
Alwin Nikolais
4. Turned profits by slashing salaries of ballerinas so jockey club friends could have them as mistresses
Charles Didelot
Lucien Petipa
Merce Cunningham
Dr. Louis Vernon
5. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Massine
Bill T. Jones
Alwin Nikolais
Mary Wigman
6. Launched careers of 5 great choreographers
Rudolph Nureyev
Fanny Elssler
Diaghilev
Theophile Gautier
7. First male dancer to make an impression in U.S.
Lucien Petipa
Pilobolus
Robert Ellis Dunn
Rudolph Nureyev
8. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Folkine - Nijinsky
Ruth St. Denis
Busby Berkeley
Leon Bakst
9. African astheic choreography
Merce Cunningham
Dr. Louis Vernon
Balanchine
Alwin Nikolais
10. Writer of Giselle
Arthur Saint-Leon
Rudolph Laban
Theophile Gautier
Paul Taylor
11. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Theophile Gautier
Nijinska
Joe Goode
Doris Humphrey
12. Designed costumes and set of Afternoon of a Faune
Nijinsky
August Bournonville
Busby Berkeley
Leon Bakst
13. Choreographed Deeply There in 1988 in response to the AIDS epidemic
Joe Goode
Suzanne Linglor
Balanchine
Alvin Ailey
14. Known for two ballet styles of Symphonic ballet: comedic and satirical
Ruby Keeler
Doris Humphrey
Massine
Arthur Saint-Leon
15. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Alvin Ailey
Ivanov
Ruth St. Denis
Bill T. Jones
16. Chance dance' - focusing on the dance itself and was not interested in telling a story (fliped a coin)
Merce Cunningham
Theophile Gautier
Leon Bakst
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
17. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Massine
Alvin Ailey
Leon Bakst
Rudolph Nureyev
18. D Man in the Water
Marie Taglioni
Bill T. Jones
Alwin Nikolais
Fokine
19. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Ruby Keeler
Nijinska
Ivanov
Pilobolus
20. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Fokine
Ginger Rogers
Milhaud
Milhaud
21. Impressionist music
Pilobolus
Milhaud
Debussy
Balanchine
22. Apollo - 1928
Balanchine
Merce Cunningham
Robert Joffrey
Dr. Louis Vernon
23. Financed Balanchine to come to US - helped found New York City Ballet - served as general director
Ruth St. Denis
Lincoln Kirstein
Massine
Ruby Keeler
24. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Robert Ellis Dunn
Nijinska
Merce Cunningham
Fokine
25. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Rudolph Nureyev
Ivanov
Leon Bakst
Robert Ellis Dunn
26. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Merce Cunningham
Bill T. Jones
Suzanne Linglor
Robert Ellis Dunn
27. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Loie Fuller
Mary Wigman
Bill T. Jones
Jules Perrot
28. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Mary Wigman
Robert Joffrey
Alvin Ailey
Marius Petipa
29. Played Swanilda in Coppelia
Marius Petipa
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Robert Ellis Dunn
Joe Goode
30. Agon - 1957
Alwin Nikolais
Balanchine
Theophile Gautier
Massine
31. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Theophile Gautier
Mary Wigman
Balanchine
Diaghilev
32. Composer for 'The Afternoon of a Faun'
Theophile Gautier
Debussy
Fokine
Merce Cunningham
33. Petrouchka
Fokine
Alwin Nikolais
Nijinsky
Balanchine
34. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Alwin Nikolais
Nijinska
Debussy
Nijinsky
35. Noted for his use of African elements
Pilobolus
Alvin Ailey
Ruth St. Denis
Garth Fagan
36. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Marius Petipa
Hanya Holm
Dr. Louis Vernon
Fanny Elssler
37. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Fred Astaire
Bill T. Jones
Loie Fuller
August Bournonville
38. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Bill T. Jones
Rudolph Nureyev
Balanchine
Debussy
39. Wrote against male dancers
Balanchine
Fokine
Ruth St. Denis
Theophile Gautier
40. Danced in Berkeley's movies - First movie dancing star of 1930's 42nd street led to her success
Debussy
Leon Bakst
Ruby Keeler
Anna Pavlova
41. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Marie Taglioni
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Fokine
Busby Berkeley
42. Father of Russian ballet
Bill T. Jones
Jean Coralli
Charles Didelot
Debussy
43. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Ivanov
Nijinska
Garth Fagan
Fred Astaire
44. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Fokine
Marius Petipa
Ivanov
Louis Horst
45. Known for her 'Pagan' style of dance
Diaghilev
Fanny Elssler
Folkine - Nijinsky
Anton Dolin
46. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Folkine - Nijinsky
Jean Baptiste Lande
Robert Joffrey
Nijinska
47. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Marie Taglioni
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Rudolph Nureyev
48. African American modern Dance choreographer
Bill T. Jones
Mary Wigman
Louis Horst
Ginger Rogers
49. Shortened skirt to show off pointe work - starred in La Sylphide
Balanchine
Marie Taglioni
Milhaud
Fokine
50. Brought ballet to the common person
Balanchine
Nijinska
Mary Wigman
Anna Pavlova