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Dance Famous People
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1. Points in Space -Composer: John Cage(partner) -Taught by Martha Graham
Alvin Ailey
Anton Dolin
Mary Wigman
Merce Cunningham
2. Shortened skirt to show off pointe work - starred in La Sylphide
Marie Taglioni
Bill T. Jones
Merce Cunningham
Massine
3. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Balanchine
Rudolph Laban
Nijinsky
Paul Taylor
4. Apollo - 1928
Martha Graham
Paul Taylor
Hanya Holm
Balanchine
5. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Milhaud
Alwin Nikolais
Marie Taglioni
Rudolph Laban
6. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Alwin Nikolais
Busby Berkeley
Pilobolus
Merce Cunningham
7. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Rudolph Nureyev
Martha Graham
Jules Perrot
Louis Horst
8. Petrouchka
Bill T. Jones
Fokine
Nijinska
Robert Ellis Dunn
9. Choreographed 'Revelations'
Busby Berkeley
Robert Ellis Dunn
Alvin Ailey
Arthur Mitchell
10. Four Temperaments
Balanchine
Ivanov
Busby Berkeley
Nijinska
11. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Rudolph Laban
Robert Joffrey
Theophile Gautier
Jean Baptiste Lande
12. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Theophile Gautier
Diaghilev
Dr. Louis Vernon
Robert Ellis Dunn
13. 1st Albrecht
Balanchine
Alvin Ailey
Nijinsky
Lucien Petipa
14. Professional tennis player Who was known for using ballet skills on the court
Paul Taylor
Joe Goode
Suzanne Linglor
Hanya Holm
15. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Fokine
Robert Ellis Dunn
Bill T. Jones
Jean Jacques Rousseau
16. Impressionist music
Robert Ellis Dunn
Debussy
Mary Wigman
Marius Petipa
17. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Twyla Tharp
Busby Berkeley
Theophile Gautier
Charles Didelot
18. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Marius Petipa
Charles Weidman
Debussy
Marius Petipa
19. Known for two ballet styles of Symphonic ballet: comedic and satirical
Suzanne Linglor
Leon Bakst
Massine
Arthur Mitchell
20. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German dance to U.S. but Americanized her technique.
Nijinska
Balanchine
Alvin Ailey
Hanya Holm
21. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer
Jose Limon
Rudolph Nureyev
Arthur Saint-Leon
Theophile Gautier
22. Brought ballet to the common person
Marius Petipa
Anna Pavlova
Suzanne Linglor
Rudolph Laban
23. Movement in hips
Massine
August Bournonville
Arthur Mitchell
Jean Coralli
24. First male dancer to make an impression in U.S.
Alvin Ailey
Rudolph Nureyev
Paul Taylor
Loie Fuller
25. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Fokine
Bill T. Jones
Louis Horst
Robert Ellis Dunn
26. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Paul Taylor
Leon Bakst
Balanchine
27. Pelvic contraction and release
Louis Horst
Anton Dolin
Marius Petipa
Paul Taylor
28. Father of Russian ballet
Busby Berkeley
Charles Didelot
Joe Goode
Marius Petipa
29. Class grew into Judson's Church Group
Robert Ellis Dunn
Bill T. Jones
Fred Astaire
Louis Horst
30. Known for her 'Pagan' style of dance
Fanny Elssler
George Balanchine
Anton Dolin
Ruby Keeler
31. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Jules Perrot
Pilobolus
Arthur Mitchell
Ivanov
32. Choreographed Lion King
Rudolph Nureyev
Fanny Elssler
Garth Fagan
Ginger Rogers
33. Wrote against male dancers
Nijinsky
Merce Cunningham
Theophile Gautier
Fokine
34. Choregraphed (the sleeping beauty and nutcracker - swan lake)
Marius Petipa
Bill T. Jones
Massine
Nijinsky
35. Afternoon of a Faun
Lincoln Kirstein
Nijinsky
George Balanchine
Louis Horst
36. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Twyla Tharp
Nijinsky
Nijinska
Alvin Ailey
37. Choreographed Jeux
Ruby Keeler
August Bournonville
Balanchine
Nijinsky
38. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Fokine
Robert Ellis Dunn
Charles Didelot
Marie Taglioni
39. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Massine
Leon Bakst
Diaghilev
Mary Wigman
40. First female ballet choreographer of the 20th century
Nijinska
Arthur Mitchell
Debussy
Nijinsky
41. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Merce Cunningham
Anton Dolin
Jean Baptiste Lande
Folkine - Nijinsky
42. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Nijinska
Alvin Ailey
Bill T. Jones
Loie Fuller
43. Considered the greatest male dancer of the romantic era
Jules Perrot
Merce Cunningham
Diaghilev
Arthur Saint-Leon
44. First lady of modern dance
Paul Taylor
Philip Taglioni
Milhaud
Ruth St. Denis
45. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Jean Coralli
Fokine
Ivanov
Louis Horst
46. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Ginger Rogers
Merce Cunningham
Mary Wigman
Balanchine
47. African American modern Dance choreographer
Bill T. Jones
Garth Fagan
Doris Humphrey
Debussy
48. Agon - 1957
Nijinska
Charles Weidman
Balanchine
Ivanov
49. Starred in Prince of Whales
Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey
Debussy
Anton Dolin
50. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Jules Perrot
Ruth St. Denis
Jean Coralli
Arthur Mitchell
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