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Dance Famous People
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1. Defected from Russia to US -Greatest danseur of the 20th century.
Debussy
Ruth St. Denis
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Jean Coralli
2. Composer for 'The Afternoon of a Faun'
Debussy
Balanchine
Anna Pavlova
Marius Petipa
3. African American modern Dance choreographer
Marius Petipa
Milhaud
Fokine
Bill T. Jones
4. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Diaghilev
Busby Berkeley
Robert Ellis Dunn
Arthur Mitchell
5. Co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet
Jean Coralli
Rudolph Nureyev
Mikhail Baryshnikov
George Balanchine
6. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Mary Wigman
Busby Berkeley
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Leon Bakst
7. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Merce Cunningham
Arthur Saint-Leon
Balanchine
Ginger Rogers
8. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer
Ruby Keeler
Martha Graham
Anton Dolin
Jose Limon
9. Choreographed Lion King
Arthur Mitchell
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Ginger Rogers
Garth Fagan
10. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Anton Dolin
Margaret Sanger
Ivanov
Arthur Mitchell
11. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Debussy
Nijinska
Theophile Gautier
Milhaud
12. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet
Diaghilev
Louis Horst
Anton Dolin
Marius Petipa
13. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Balanchine
Ruby Keeler
Merce Cunningham
14. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Loie Fuller
Rudolph Nureyev
Robert Ellis Dunn
Theophile Gautier
15. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Doris Humphrey
Nijinska
Fokine
Ruth St. Denis
16. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Balanchine
Jose Limon
Charles Weidman
Fokine
17. Acts of Light
Marius Petipa
Merce Cunningham
Fred Astaire
Martha Graham
18. Designed costumes and set of Afternoon of a Faune
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Leon Bakst
Theophile Gautier
Jean Baptiste Lande
19. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Massine
August Bournonville
Leon Bakst
Dr. Louis Vernon
20. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Louis Horst
Alvin Ailey
Twyla Tharp
Nijinsky
21. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Fred Astaire
Dr. Louis Vernon
Alwin Nikolais
Anna Pavlova
22. Known for brilliant divertissments
Joe Goode
Alwin Nikolais
Arthur Saint-Leon
Ivanov
23. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Loie Fuller
Jules Perrot
Robert Joffrey
Mary Wigman
24. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Diaghilev
Robert Ellis Dunn
Ruth St. Denis
Jean Baptiste Lande
25. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Anton Dolin
Ivanov
Theophile Gautier
Marius Petipa
26. Starred in Prince of Whales
Doris Humphrey
Anton Dolin
Diaghilev
Folkine - Nijinsky
27. Developed new ways to use light and movement in her choreography
Loie Fuller
Louis Horst
Busby Berkeley
Lincoln Kirstein
28. 1st Albrecht
Folkine - Nijinsky
Lucien Petipa
Nijinsky
Ruth St. Denis
29. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Milhaud
Arthur Saint-Leon
Rudolph Laban
30. Choregraphed (the sleeping beauty and nutcracker - swan lake)
Marius Petipa
Theophile Gautier
Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey
31. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Busby Berkeley
Nijinsky
Ivanov
Arthur Saint-Leon
32. Brought ballet to Paris
Busby Berkeley
Ginger Rogers
Balanchine
Diaghilev
33. The art of making dances - 1959
Martha Graham
Garth Fagan
Doris Humphrey
Loie Fuller
34. Apollo - 1928
Rudolph Nureyev
Balanchine
Alvin Ailey
Fokine
35. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Jean Coralli
Robert Joffrey
Mary Wigman
Folkine - Nijinsky
36. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Fred Astaire
Robert Ellis Dunn
Bill T. Jones
Doris Humphrey
37. First lady of modern dance
Ruth St. Denis
Hanya Holm
Rudolph Nureyev
Leon Bakst
38. Agon - 1957
Jules Perrot
Merce Cunningham
Balanchine
Twyla Tharp
39. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Fokine
Anton Dolin
Pilobolus
Hanya Holm
40. Launched careers of 5 great choreographers
Diaghilev
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Busby Berkeley
Mary Wigman
41. Choreographed Coppelia
Arthur Saint-Leon
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Massine
Milhaud
42. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Nijinska
Alwin Nikolais
Jean Coralli
Fanny Elssler
43. First female ballet choreographer of the 20th century
Marie Taglioni
Theophile Gautier
Nijinska
Nijinsky
44. Father of classical ballet
Ruth St. Denis
Leon Bakst
Charles Weidman
Marius Petipa
45. D Man in the Water
Alwin Nikolais
Bill T. Jones
Nijinska
Milhaud
46. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Louis Horst
Ginger Rogers
Ivanov
47. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Rudolph Nureyev
Hanya Holm
Busby Berkeley
Charles Didelot
48. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Merce Cunningham
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Rudolph Nureyev
Busby Berkeley
49. Wrote against male dancers
Paul Taylor
Ruth St. Denis
Theophile Gautier
Diaghilev
50. Considered the greatest male dancer of the romantic era
Marius Petipa
Milhaud
August Bournonville
Jules Perrot