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Dance Famous People
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Agon - 1957
Hanya Holm
Balanchine
Jules Perrot
Debussy
2. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Charles Didelot
Garth Fagan
Charles Weidman
Joe Goode
3. Wrote against male dancers
Jean Baptiste Lande
Theophile Gautier
Lucien Petipa
Philip Taglioni
4. Four Temperaments
Balanchine
Ruth St. Denis
Alvin Ailey
August Bournonville
5. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Robert Joffrey
Nijinska
Diaghilev
Lucien Petipa
6. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Pilobolus
Arthur Saint-Leon
Paul Taylor
Charles Didelot
7. Listed as choreographer of Giselle because He was widely respected
Philip Taglioni
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Jean Coralli
Anna Pavlova
8. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Mary Wigman
August Bournonville
Arthur Mitchell
9. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Rudolph Nureyev
Busby Berkeley
Folkine - Nijinsky
Robert Ellis Dunn
10. Father of Russian ballet
Merce Cunningham
Debussy
Lucien Petipa
Charles Didelot
11. REBELLED AGAINST IDEA THAT DANCE HAD TO HAVE MEANING
Diaghilev
Joe Goode
Diaghilev
Merce Cunningham
12. Father of classical ballet
Doris Humphrey
Louis Horst
Arthur Mitchell
Marius Petipa
13. Chance dance' - focusing on the dance itself and was not interested in telling a story (fliped a coin)
Merce Cunningham
Nijinska
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Paul Taylor
14. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Bill T. Jones
Jules Perrot
Alwin Nikolais
Theophile Gautier
15. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Nijinsky
Marius Petipa
Leon Bakst
Ivanov
16. African astheic choreography
Fokine
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Balanchine
Bill T. Jones
17. African American modern Dance choreographer
Ivanov
Balanchine
Bill T. Jones
Debussy
18. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Arthur Mitchell
Jean Baptiste Lande
Philip Taglioni
Anton Dolin
19. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Ginger Rogers
Nijinska
Mary Wigman
Lucien Petipa
20. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
Pilobolus
Jules Perrot
Milhaud
Ivanov
21. Choreographed Deeply There in 1988 in response to the AIDS epidemic
Balanchine
Joe Goode
Fokine
Doris Humphrey
22. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Theophile Gautier
Merce Cunningham
Ginger Rogers
Bill T. Jones
23. Noted for his use of African elements
Balanchine
Alvin Ailey
Nijinska
Nijinsky
24. Choreographed 'Revelations'
Alwin Nikolais
Garth Fagan
Massine
Alvin Ailey
25. Shortened skirt to show off pointe work - starred in La Sylphide
Rudolph Nureyev
Anton Dolin
Balanchine
Marie Taglioni
26. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Anton Dolin
Nijinska
Marius Petipa
Fokine
27. Movement in hips
Loie Fuller
Arthur Saint-Leon
Bill T. Jones
Arthur Mitchell
28. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Rudolph Nureyev
Garth Fagan
Theophile Gautier
Charles Didelot
29. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Rudolph Nureyev
Ruby Keeler
Mary Wigman
Hanya Holm
30. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Balanchine
Loie Fuller
Paul Taylor
Ginger Rogers
31. Defected from Russia to US -Greatest danseur of the 20th century.
Balanchine
Marius Petipa
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Garth Fagan
32. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Rudolph Nureyev
Folkine - Nijinsky
Debussy
Jean Jacques Rousseau
33. Petrouchka
Fokine
Merce Cunningham
Mary Wigman
Garth Fagan
34. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Alwin Nikolais
Massine
Leon Bakst
Robert Ellis Dunn
35. The art of making dances - 1959
Nijinsky
Ruth St. Denis
Ruth St. Denis
Doris Humphrey
36. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Margaret Sanger
Debussy
Arthur Saint-Leon
Robert Ellis Dunn
37. Rite of Spring
Theophile Gautier
Garth Fagan
Nijinsky
Louis Horst
38. Brought ballet to Paris
Leon Bakst
Merce Cunningham
Diaghilev
Martha Graham
39. Apollo - 1928
Anton Dolin
Balanchine
Busby Berkeley
Ivanov
40. Played Swanilda in Coppelia
Marius Petipa
Jose Limon
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Anton Dolin
41. D Man in the Water
Rudolph Nureyev
Robert Ellis Dunn
Bill T. Jones
Milhaud
42. Launched careers of 5 great choreographers
Diaghilev
Fred Astaire
Nijinsky
Marie Taglioni
43. Class grew into Judson's Church Group
Nijinsky
Nijinska
Robert Ellis Dunn
Nijinska
44. Starred in Prince of Whales
Hanya Holm
Alvin Ailey
Ginger Rogers
Anton Dolin
45. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German dance to U.S. but Americanized her technique.
Rudolph Nureyev
Louis Horst
Hanya Holm
Diaghilev
46. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Robert Ellis Dunn
Mary Wigman
Rudolph Nureyev
Philip Taglioni
47. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Fokine
Mary Wigman
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Philip Taglioni
48. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Jean Baptiste Lande
Jose Limon
Pilobolus
Merce Cunningham
49. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Fanny Elssler
Alvin Ailey
Pilobolus
Anton Dolin
50. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Alvin Ailey
Diaghilev
Ivanov
Joe Goode