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Dance Famous People
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Robert Joffrey
Busby Berkeley
Leon Bakst
Arthur Saint-Leon
2. Points in Space -Composer: John Cage(partner) -Taught by Martha Graham
Debussy
Merce Cunningham
George Balanchine
Lucien Petipa
3. Apollo - 1928
Marius Petipa
Jules Perrot
Merce Cunningham
Balanchine
4. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Jean Baptiste Lande
Ruth St. Denis
Rudolph Nureyev
Jose Limon
5. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Ivanov
Robert Joffrey
Theophile Gautier
6. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Robert Ellis Dunn
Twyla Tharp
Nijinsky
Bill T. Jones
7. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Margaret Sanger
Hanya Holm
Ruby Keeler
Charles Didelot
8. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Hanya Holm
Balanchine
Diaghilev
Folkine - Nijinsky
9. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Fred Astaire
Lucien Petipa
Arthur Saint-Leon
Hanya Holm
10. Choreographed La Sylphide
Marius Petipa
Ivanov
Alvin Ailey
Philip Taglioni
11. Noted for his use of African elements
Alvin Ailey
Paul Taylor
Balanchine
Leon Bakst
12. First male dancer to make an impression in U.S.
Alvin Ailey
Rudolph Nureyev
Doris Humphrey
Arthur Mitchell
13. Listed as choreographer of Giselle because He was widely respected
Doris Humphrey
Jean Coralli
Anton Dolin
Jean Baptiste Lande
14. Choreographed Lion King
Alvin Ailey
Hanya Holm
Jules Perrot
Garth Fagan
15. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Nijinska
Alvin Ailey
Ivanov
Twyla Tharp
16. Chance dance' - focusing on the dance itself and was not interested in telling a story (fliped a coin)
Merce Cunningham
Paul Taylor
Balanchine
Louis Horst
17. Named the mother of modern dance
Garth Fagan
Jules Perrot
Martha Graham
Mary Wigman
18. Shortened skirt to show off pointe work - starred in La Sylphide
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Marie Taglioni
Massine
Garth Fagan
19. Composer for 'The Afternoon of a Faun'
Debussy
Anton Dolin
Massine
Jose Limon
20. Designed costumes and set of Afternoon of a Faune
Jean Coralli
Louis Horst
Hanya Holm
Leon Bakst
21. La Spectre de la Rose
Folkine - Nijinsky
Balanchine
Balanchine
Arthur Mitchell
22. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer
Jose Limon
Fred Astaire
Mary Wigman
Diaghilev
23. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Theophile Gautier
Paul Taylor
Nijinska
Pilobolus
24. Choreographed Coppelia
Alvin Ailey
Arthur Saint-Leon
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Bill T. Jones
25. Rite of Spring
Bill T. Jones
Busby Berkeley
Nijinsky
Ruth St. Denis
26. Class grew into Judson's Church Group
Charles Weidman
Robert Ellis Dunn
Mary Wigman
Alvin Ailey
27. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Merce Cunningham
Doris Humphrey
Massine
Debussy
28. Known for her 'Pagan' style of dance
Massine
Fanny Elssler
Massine
Diaghilev
29. Writer of Giselle
Mary Wigman
Balanchine
Theophile Gautier
Ginger Rogers
30. Brought ballet to Paris
Ruby Keeler
Diaghilev
Arthur Mitchell
Busby Berkeley
31. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German dance to U.S. but Americanized her technique.
Pilobolus
Folkine - Nijinsky
Fanny Elssler
Hanya Holm
32. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Fanny Elssler
Jean Baptiste Lande
Lincoln Kirstein
Busby Berkeley
33. First lady of modern dance
Dr. Louis Vernon
Busby Berkeley
Ruth St. Denis
Nijinsky
34. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
Doris Humphrey
Doris Humphrey
Merce Cunningham
Jules Perrot
35. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Martha Graham
Rudolph Nureyev
August Bournonville
Lucien Petipa
36. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Doris Humphrey
Rudolph Nureyev
Hanya Holm
Twyla Tharp
37. Four Temperaments
Rudolph Nureyev
Anna Pavlova
Philip Taglioni
Balanchine
38. Choreographed 'Revelations'
Alvin Ailey
Marius Petipa
Ivanov
Ivanov
39. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Arthur Saint-Leon
Louis Horst
Ivanov
Robert Joffrey
40. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Hanya Holm
Doris Humphrey
Anton Dolin
41. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Robert Joffrey
Louis Horst
Charles Didelot
Robert Ellis Dunn
42. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Rudolph Nureyev
Leon Bakst
Debussy
Balanchine
43. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Merce Cunningham
Theophile Gautier
Pilobolus
George Balanchine
44. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Ginger Rogers
Diaghilev
Balanchine
Lincoln Kirstein
45. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Theophile Gautier
Nijinska
Charles Didelot
Balanchine
46. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Debussy
Nijinska
Garth Fagan
Rudolph Nureyev
47. Impressionist music
Balanchine
Debussy
Diaghilev
Mikhail Baryshnikov
48. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Fokine
Louis Horst
Rudolph Laban
Alvin Ailey
49. Turned profits by slashing salaries of ballerinas so jockey club friends could have them as mistresses
Alwin Nikolais
Pilobolus
Dr. Louis Vernon
Martha Graham
50. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Dr. Louis Vernon
Marius Petipa
Mary Wigman
Ivanov