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Dance Famous People
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1. Considered the greatest male dancer of the romantic era
Diaghilev
Debussy
Jules Perrot
Pilobolus
2. Father of classical ballet
Debussy
Marius Petipa
Paul Taylor
Fokine
3. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Fokine
Milhaud
Diaghilev
Marie Taglioni
4. Points in Space -Composer: John Cage(partner) -Taught by Martha Graham
Merce Cunningham
Busby Berkeley
Charles Weidman
Marie Taglioni
5. Known for two ballet styles of Symphonic ballet: comedic and satirical
Massine
Rudolph Nureyev
Leon Bakst
Charles Weidman
6. Afternoon of a Faun
George Balanchine
Arthur Saint-Leon
Diaghilev
Nijinsky
7. First female ballet choreographer of the 20th century
Nijinska
Balanchine
Fokine
Nijinsky
8. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Jean Baptiste Lande
Rudolph Nureyev
Robert Ellis Dunn
Fred Astaire
9. Chance dance' - focusing on the dance itself and was not interested in telling a story (fliped a coin)
Louis Horst
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Balanchine
Merce Cunningham
10. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Nijinska
Paul Taylor
Louis Horst
Margaret Sanger
11. Pelvic contraction and release
Louis Horst
Alvin Ailey
Jean Coralli
Diaghilev
12. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Fanny Elssler
Pilobolus
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Hanya Holm
13. Writer of Giselle
Nijinska
Marie Taglioni
Theophile Gautier
Charles Weidman
14. AVANT GARDE -CHOREOGRAPHED AUREOLE
Robert Ellis Dunn
Hanya Holm
Paul Taylor
Ivanov
15. D Man in the Water
Jules Perrot
Bill T. Jones
Arthur Mitchell
Rudolph Nureyev
16. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Theophile Gautier
Jules Perrot
Ruby Keeler
Ruth St. Denis
17. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Balanchine
Folkine - Nijinsky
Theophile Gautier
Charles Didelot
18. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Alwin Nikolais
Ruth St. Denis
Charles Weidman
Merce Cunningham
19. Movement in hips
Fanny Elssler
Arthur Mitchell
Ivanov
Arthur Saint-Leon
20. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Pilobolus
Jules Perrot
Merce Cunningham
Rudolph Nureyev
21. Apollo - 1928
Arthur Saint-Leon
Mary Wigman
Balanchine
Joe Goode
22. Choregraphed (the sleeping beauty and nutcracker - swan lake)
Marius Petipa
Ivanov
Louis Horst
Charles Didelot
23. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Busby Berkeley
Rudolph Nureyev
Theophile Gautier
Nijinsky
24. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Milhaud
Twyla Tharp
Anton Dolin
Balanchine
25. Turned profits by slashing salaries of ballerinas so jockey club friends could have them as mistresses
Dr. Louis Vernon
Milhaud
Ivanov
Jean Jacques Rousseau
26. Rite of Spring
Dr. Louis Vernon
Louis Horst
Robert Ellis Dunn
Nijinsky
27. Financed Balanchine to come to US - helped found New York City Ballet - served as general director
Lincoln Kirstein
Merce Cunningham
Balanchine
Nijinska
28. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Charles Weidman
Balanchine
Doris Humphrey
Nijinsky
29. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Massine
Milhaud
Arthur Mitchell
Merce Cunningham
30. Petrouchka
Fokine
Doris Humphrey
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Alwin Nikolais
31. Played Swanilda in Coppelia
Fokine
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Theophile Gautier
Pilobolus
32. Brought ballet to the common person
Leon Bakst
Nijinska
Anna Pavlova
Louis Horst
33. The art of making dances - 1959
Nijinska
Charles Weidman
Doris Humphrey
Anton Dolin
34. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Ivanov
Lucien Petipa
Pilobolus
Nijinska
35. Choreographed La Sylphide
Philip Taglioni
Doris Humphrey
Fokine
Bill T. Jones
36. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Arthur Mitchell
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Marie Taglioni
August Bournonville
37. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
Nijinska
Louis Horst
Hanya Holm
Jules Perrot
38. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Twyla Tharp
Diaghilev
Leon Bakst
39. First male dancer to make an impression in U.S.
Rudolph Nureyev
Twyla Tharp
Mary Wigman
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
40. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
August Bournonville
Suzanne Linglor
Margaret Sanger
Pilobolus
41. La Spectre de la Rose
Folkine - Nijinsky
Mary Wigman
Theophile Gautier
Diaghilev
42. African American modern Dance choreographer
Ruth St. Denis
Bill T. Jones
Arthur Mitchell
Debussy
43. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Nijinska
Balanchine
Rudolph Nureyev
Fokine
44. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Ruth St. Denis
Marius Petipa
Robert Ellis Dunn
Mary Wigman
45. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Massine
Arthur Mitchell
Louis Horst
Mary Wigman
46. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Balanchine
Robert Ellis Dunn
Fred Astaire
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
47. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
August Bournonville
Milhaud
Robert Ellis Dunn
Rudolph Laban
48. Brought ballet to Paris
Jules Perrot
Diaghilev
Doris Humphrey
Arthur Saint-Leon
49. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
George Balanchine
Mary Wigman
Ginger Rogers
Lincoln Kirstein
50. Agon - 1957
Balanchine
Busby Berkeley
Pilobolus
Hanya Holm