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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. Chance dance' - focusing on the dance itself and was not interested in telling a story (fliped a coin)
Merce Cunningham
Dr. Louis Vernon
Marius Petipa
Ivanov
2. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Jean Baptiste Lande
Charles Weidman
Philip Taglioni
Fred Astaire
3. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Fokine
Jules Perrot
Anton Dolin
Fanny Elssler
4. Financed Balanchine to come to US - helped found New York City Ballet - served as general director
Theophile Gautier
Lincoln Kirstein
Bill T. Jones
Leon Bakst
5. Wrote against male dancers
Loie Fuller
Busby Berkeley
Theophile Gautier
Paul Taylor
6. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Fokine
Folkine - Nijinsky
Leon Bakst
Ivanov
7. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Busby Berkeley
Jules Perrot
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Pilobolus
8. Founded American Dance Theater in New York City
Alvin Ailey
Rudolph Nureyev
Merce Cunningham
Arthur Saint-Leon
9. Turned profits by slashing salaries of ballerinas so jockey club friends could have them as mistresses
Dr. Louis Vernon
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Fanny Elssler
Arthur Mitchell
10. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Ivanov
Bill T. Jones
Louis Horst
Pilobolus
11. 1st Albrecht
Merce Cunningham
Ivanov
Lucien Petipa
Ivanov
12. AVANT GARDE -CHOREOGRAPHED AUREOLE
Paul Taylor
Arthur Saint-Leon
Diaghilev
Robert Ellis Dunn
13. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Theophile Gautier
Arthur Mitchell
Ruby Keeler
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
14. Four Temperaments
Balanchine
Nijinsky
Busby Berkeley
Lincoln Kirstein
15. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Diaghilev
Ruth St. Denis
George Balanchine
Massine
16. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Milhaud
Alvin Ailey
Balanchine
Robert Ellis Dunn
17. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Diaghilev
Doris Humphrey
Nijinska
Debussy
18. La Spectre de la Rose
Folkine - Nijinsky
Dr. Louis Vernon
Doris Humphrey
Alwin Nikolais
19. First male dancer to make an impression in U.S.
George Balanchine
Rudolph Nureyev
Hanya Holm
Marius Petipa
20. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Robert Ellis Dunn
Hanya Holm
Bill T. Jones
Theophile Gautier
21. Known for two ballet styles of Symphonic ballet: comedic and satirical
Nijinska
Philip Taglioni
Pilobolus
Massine
22. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Ruth St. Denis
Paul Taylor
Fanny Elssler
Twyla Tharp
23. Class grew into Judson's Church Group
Ivanov
Robert Ellis Dunn
Bill T. Jones
Pilobolus
24. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Fokine
August Bournonville
Diaghilev
Lucien Petipa
25. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Merce Cunningham
Robert Ellis Dunn
Jean Coralli
Alwin Nikolais
26. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Mary Wigman
Fanny Elssler
Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey
27. Brought ballet to the common person
August Bournonville
Balanchine
Debussy
Anna Pavlova
28. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Paul Taylor
Merce Cunningham
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Alwin Nikolais
29. Choreographed 'Revelations'
Marius Petipa
Alvin Ailey
Rudolph Nureyev
Balanchine
30. Pioneer of modern dance in Germany
Robert Ellis Dunn
Alwin Nikolais
Lincoln Kirstein
Mary Wigman
31. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Nijinska
Bill T. Jones
Nijinsky
Margaret Sanger
32. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Fokine
Margaret Sanger
Fred Astaire
Marius Petipa
33. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Marie Taglioni
Mary Wigman
Massine
Anton Dolin
34. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer
Jean Coralli
Fokine
Dr. Louis Vernon
Jose Limon
35. Named the mother of modern dance
Milhaud
Merce Cunningham
Mary Wigman
Balanchine
36. Known for her 'Pagan' style of dance
Pilobolus
Alvin Ailey
Charles Weidman
Fanny Elssler
37. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German dance to U.S. but Americanized her technique.
Hanya Holm
Marius Petipa
Theophile Gautier
Diaghilev
38. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Balanchine
Nijinsky
Merce Cunningham
Leon Bakst
39. Listed as choreographer of Giselle because He was widely respected
Milhaud
Diaghilev
Marius Petipa
Jean Coralli
40. Rite of Spring
Theophile Gautier
Nijinsky
Marius Petipa
Ginger Rogers
41. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Balanchine
Diaghilev
Robert Ellis Dunn
Pilobolus
42. Afternoon of a Faun
Mary Wigman
Suzanne Linglor
Fred Astaire
Nijinsky
43. Points in Space -Composer: John Cage(partner) -Taught by Martha Graham
Debussy
Robert Joffrey
Paul Taylor
Merce Cunningham
44. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Louis Horst
Rudolph Nureyev
Merce Cunningham
Bill T. Jones
45. Choreographed La Sylphide
Lincoln Kirstein
Marie Taglioni
Philip Taglioni
Nijinsky
46. Choreographed Coppelia
Lucien Petipa
Arthur Saint-Leon
Suzanne Linglor
Charles Weidman
47. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Louis Horst
Busby Berkeley
Robert Ellis Dunn
Diaghilev
48. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Dr. Louis Vernon
Rudolph Laban
Nijinsky
August Bournonville
49. Pelvic contraction and release
Lincoln Kirstein
Louis Horst
Robert Ellis Dunn
Bill T. Jones
50. Movement in hips
Pilobolus
Balanchine
Nijinska
Arthur Mitchell