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Dance Famous People
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1. Choreographed La Sylphide
Philip Taglioni
Mikhail Baryshnikov
August Bournonville
Massine
2. African astheic choreography
Twyla Tharp
Rudolph Laban
Balanchine
Theophile Gautier
3. Co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet
George Balanchine
Anton Dolin
Bill T. Jones
Leon Bakst
4. Defected from Russia to US -Greatest danseur of the 20th century.
Nijinsky
Hanya Holm
Massine
Mikhail Baryshnikov
5. Apollo - 1928
Charles Didelot
Robert Ellis Dunn
Nijinska
Balanchine
6. Danced in Berkeley's movies - First movie dancing star of 1930's 42nd street led to her success
Balanchine
Ruby Keeler
Louis Horst
Nijinsky
7. Choreographed Lion King
Bill T. Jones
Jose Limon
Alvin Ailey
Garth Fagan
8. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Alwin Nikolais
Jose Limon
Alvin Ailey
Twyla Tharp
9. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Theophile Gautier
Fanny Elssler
Jean Baptiste Lande
Louis Horst
10. Agon - 1957
Paul Taylor
Rudolph Laban
Diaghilev
Balanchine
11. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Busby Berkeley
Louis Horst
Marius Petipa
Massine
12. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Busby Berkeley
Theophile Gautier
Margaret Sanger
Nijinska
13. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Anton Dolin
Hanya Holm
Rudolph Laban
Robert Joffrey
14. Movement in hips
Nijinsky
Milhaud
Jose Limon
Arthur Mitchell
15. D Man in the Water
Alwin Nikolais
Jean Coralli
Marius Petipa
Bill T. Jones
16. Choreographed 'Revelations'
Alvin Ailey
Ruth St. Denis
Jean Baptiste Lande
Folkine - Nijinsky
17. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Fokine
Robert Ellis Dunn
Nijinska
Charles Weidman
18. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Mary Wigman
Nijinska
Jules Perrot
Rudolph Nureyev
19. Musician who had an impact on Modern Dance -Created choreography at Merce Cunningham's Studio
Robert Ellis Dunn
Alvin Ailey
Anton Dolin
Arthur Saint-Leon
20. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Balanchine
Ivanov
Dr. Louis Vernon
Balanchine
21. Noted for his use of African elements
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Arthur Saint-Leon
Alwin Nikolais
Alvin Ailey
22. Composer for 'The Afternoon of a Faun'
Milhaud
Merce Cunningham
Jose Limon
Debussy
23. Rite of Spring
Jose Limon
Louis Horst
Jean Coralli
Nijinsky
24. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Nijinska
Lincoln Kirstein
Charles Weidman
Ruth St. Denis
25. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Martha Graham
Rudolph Nureyev
Mary Wigman
Jean Jacques Rousseau
26. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Robert Ellis Dunn
Anna Pavlova
Debussy
Busby Berkeley
27. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Suzanne Linglor
Nijinsky
Merce Cunningham
Arthur Saint-Leon
28. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Anton Dolin
Ginger Rogers
Arthur Saint-Leon
Mary Wigman
29. Impressionist music
Leon Bakst
Hanya Holm
Diaghilev
Debussy
30. Acts of Light
Martha Graham
Balanchine
Marius Petipa
Philip Taglioni
31. Named the mother of modern dance
Philip Taglioni
Paul Taylor
Mary Wigman
Margaret Sanger
32. AVANT GARDE -CHOREOGRAPHED AUREOLE
Paul Taylor
Rudolph Nureyev
Dr. Louis Vernon
Rudolph Nureyev
33. Known for two ballet styles of Symphonic ballet: comedic and satirical
Nijinska
Mary Wigman
Massine
Theophile Gautier
34. Points in Space -Composer: John Cage(partner) -Taught by Martha Graham
Nijinska
Theophile Gautier
Jean Baptiste Lande
Merce Cunningham
35. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Arthur Saint-Leon
Rudolph Nureyev
Loie Fuller
Jules Perrot
36. Class grew into Judson's Church Group
Paul Taylor
Robert Ellis Dunn
Twyla Tharp
Balanchine
37. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Robert Ellis Dunn
Jean Baptiste Lande
Loie Fuller
August Bournonville
38. Professional tennis player Who was known for using ballet skills on the court
Ruth St. Denis
Suzanne Linglor
Rudolph Nureyev
Charles Didelot
39. Chance dance' - focusing on the dance itself and was not interested in telling a story (fliped a coin)
Merce Cunningham
Debussy
Pilobolus
Fokine
40. Pelvic contraction and release
Rudolph Laban
Mikhail Baryshnikov
August Bournonville
Louis Horst
41. Choreographed Deeply There in 1988 in response to the AIDS epidemic
Joe Goode
Doris Humphrey
Bill T. Jones
Rudolph Nureyev
42. Afternoon of a Faun
August Bournonville
Pilobolus
Doris Humphrey
Nijinsky
43. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Doris Humphrey
Rudolph Laban
Rudolph Nureyev
Bill T. Jones
44. Choreographed Jeux
Merce Cunningham
Diaghilev
Arthur Saint-Leon
Nijinsky
45. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Marie Taglioni
Theophile Gautier
Jose Limon
Mary Wigman
46. 1st Albrecht
Jean Coralli
Mary Wigman
Fred Astaire
Lucien Petipa
47. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Rudolph Nureyev
August Bournonville
Theophile Gautier
Doris Humphrey
48. Pioneer of modern dance in Germany
Robert Ellis Dunn
Joe Goode
Mary Wigman
August Bournonville
49. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Balanchine
Fokine
Jose Limon
Charles Weidman
50. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Marius Petipa
Arthur Mitchell
Pilobolus
Alvin Ailey