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Dance Famous People
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1. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Diaghilev
Milhaud
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Rudolph Nureyev
2. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Marius Petipa
Diaghilev
Ruby Keeler
Balanchine
3. Afternoon of a Faun
Suzanne Linglor
Fred Astaire
Nijinsky
Merce Cunningham
4. Choreographed Lion King
Alwin Nikolais
Rudolph Laban
Alvin Ailey
Garth Fagan
5. Known for two ballet styles of Symphonic ballet: comedic and satirical
Massine
Anna Pavlova
Twyla Tharp
Rudolph Nureyev
6. The art of making dances - 1959
Pilobolus
Doris Humphrey
Loie Fuller
Folkine - Nijinsky
7. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Fokine
Hanya Holm
Louis Horst
Marius Petipa
8. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Jules Perrot
Robert Ellis Dunn
Diaghilev
Doris Humphrey
9. Choreographed 'Revelations'
Ruth St. Denis
Pilobolus
Robert Ellis Dunn
Alvin Ailey
10. Points in Space -Composer: John Cage(partner) -Taught by Martha Graham
Jean Baptiste Lande
Louis Horst
Alvin Ailey
Merce Cunningham
11. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Fokine
Diaghilev
Doris Humphrey
Dr. Louis Vernon
12. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Busby Berkeley
Theophile Gautier
Ruth St. Denis
Charles Didelot
13. Apollo - 1928
Milhaud
Bill T. Jones
Balanchine
Mary Wigman
14. AVANT GARDE -CHOREOGRAPHED AUREOLE
Theophile Gautier
Mary Wigman
Paul Taylor
Arthur Saint-Leon
15. Impressionist music
Alwin Nikolais
Debussy
Anton Dolin
August Bournonville
16. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Ruby Keeler
Rudolph Laban
Mary Wigman
Marius Petipa
17. Choreographed La Sylphide
Joe Goode
Ruby Keeler
Marie Taglioni
Philip Taglioni
18. Known for her 'Pagan' style of dance
Rudolph Nureyev
Lucien Petipa
Fanny Elssler
Twyla Tharp
19. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Nijinsky
Nijinska
Suzanne Linglor
Leon Bakst
20. Known for brilliant divertissments
Arthur Mitchell
Jean Coralli
Diaghilev
Arthur Saint-Leon
21. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer
Jose Limon
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Martha Graham
Balanchine
22. Choreographed Coppelia
Balanchine
Arthur Saint-Leon
Fanny Elssler
Paul Taylor
23. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Dr. Louis Vernon
Nijinsky
Anton Dolin
Charles Didelot
24. Rite of Spring
Fokine
Marius Petipa
Nijinsky
Doris Humphrey
25. Named the mother of modern dance
Ruth St. Denis
Theophile Gautier
Nijinska
Mary Wigman
26. Choreographed Jeux
Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey
Diaghilev
Nijinsky
27. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Pilobolus
Debussy
Marie Taglioni
Fanny Elssler
28. Musician who had an impact on Modern Dance -Created choreography at Merce Cunningham's Studio
Charles Weidman
Robert Ellis Dunn
Massine
Balanchine
29. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Anna Pavlova
Rudolph Nureyev
Fokine
Mikhail Baryshnikov
30. Noted for his use of African elements
Paul Taylor
Rudolph Laban
Marius Petipa
Alvin Ailey
31. 1st Albrecht
Lucien Petipa
Merce Cunningham
Robert Ellis Dunn
Marie Taglioni
32. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Charles Didelot
Theophile Gautier
Alwin Nikolais
Arthur Mitchell
33. Choreographed Deeply There in 1988 in response to the AIDS epidemic
Paul Taylor
Joe Goode
Jules Perrot
Anton Dolin
34. Starred in Prince of Whales
Anton Dolin
Nijinska
Balanchine
Diaghilev
35. Professional tennis player Who was known for using ballet skills on the court
Suzanne Linglor
Leon Bakst
Marie Taglioni
Leon Bakst
36. Defected from Russia to US -Greatest danseur of the 20th century.
Balanchine
Massine
Rudolph Nureyev
Mikhail Baryshnikov
37. Turned profits by slashing salaries of ballerinas so jockey club friends could have them as mistresses
Louis Horst
Dr. Louis Vernon
Rudolph Nureyev
Alvin Ailey
38. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Alvin Ailey
Robert Joffrey
Pilobolus
Rudolph Nureyev
39. Brought ballet to the common person
Rudolph Nureyev
Rudolph Nureyev
Anna Pavlova
Suzanne Linglor
40. Played Swanilda in Coppelia
Lincoln Kirstein
Nijinska
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Joe Goode
41. Financed Balanchine to come to US - helped found New York City Ballet - served as general director
Lincoln Kirstein
Mikhail Baryshnikov
August Bournonville
Alvin Ailey
42. Acts of Light
Doris Humphrey
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Paul Taylor
Martha Graham
43. Writer of Giselle
Marie Taglioni
Theophile Gautier
Balanchine
Fokine
44. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Lucien Petipa
August Bournonville
Ruby Keeler
Philip Taglioni
45. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Margaret Sanger
Arthur Saint-Leon
Ivanov
Rudolph Nureyev
46. D Man in the Water
Rudolph Nureyev
Bill T. Jones
Loie Fuller
Leon Bakst
47. Brought ballet to Paris
Diaghilev
George Balanchine
Mary Wigman
Ruby Keeler
48. First female ballet choreographer of the 20th century
Theophile Gautier
Hanya Holm
Charles Didelot
Nijinska
49. Developed new ways to use light and movement in her choreography
Bill T. Jones
Milhaud
Merce Cunningham
Loie Fuller
50. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Nijinska
Fokine
Theophile Gautier
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
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