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Dance Famous People
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1. AVANT GARDE -CHOREOGRAPHED AUREOLE
Balanchine
Diaghilev
Paul Taylor
Joe Goode
2. Launched careers of 5 great choreographers
Theophile Gautier
Diaghilev
Garth Fagan
Jean Coralli
3. First female ballet choreographer of the 20th century
Merce Cunningham
Leon Bakst
Nijinska
Marius Petipa
4. Father of classical ballet
Ginger Rogers
Garth Fagan
Merce Cunningham
Marius Petipa
5. REBELLED AGAINST IDEA THAT DANCE HAD TO HAVE MEANING
Merce Cunningham
Nijinska
Balanchine
Bill T. Jones
6. Brought ballet to the common person
Marius Petipa
Martha Graham
Jules Perrot
Anna Pavlova
7. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Martha Graham
Ginger Rogers
Busby Berkeley
Nijinsky
8. Afternoon of a Faun
Nijinsky
Merce Cunningham
August Bournonville
Mary Wigman
9. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
Robert Joffrey
Nijinska
Jules Perrot
Lucien Petipa
10. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Ivanov
Fokine
Lucien Petipa
Diaghilev
11. Known for brilliant divertissments
Arthur Saint-Leon
Alvin Ailey
Pilobolus
Anton Dolin
12. Chance dance' - focusing on the dance itself and was not interested in telling a story (fliped a coin)
Arthur Mitchell
Massine
Marius Petipa
Merce Cunningham
13. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Balanchine
Debussy
Alwin Nikolais
Fokine
14. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Loie Fuller
Pilobolus
Theophile Gautier
Martha Graham
15. The art of making dances - 1959
Leon Bakst
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Doris Humphrey
Fred Astaire
16. Co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet
Busby Berkeley
Paul Taylor
George Balanchine
Folkine - Nijinsky
17. Played Swanilda in Coppelia
Hanya Holm
Suzanne Linglor
Merce Cunningham
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
18. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Fokine
Theophile Gautier
Jean Baptiste Lande
Nijinska
19. Defected from Russia to US -Greatest danseur of the 20th century.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Jose Limon
Nijinsky
Balanchine
20. Writer of Giselle
Theophile Gautier
Robert Ellis Dunn
Pilobolus
Jose Limon
21. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Diaghilev
Rudolph Nureyev
Folkine - Nijinsky
Busby Berkeley
22. Named the mother of modern dance
Nijinsky
Merce Cunningham
Lincoln Kirstein
Mary Wigman
23. Rite of Spring
Alvin Ailey
Anton Dolin
Philip Taglioni
Nijinsky
24. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Alwin Nikolais
Nijinska
Arthur Saint-Leon
Mikhail Baryshnikov
25. Petrouchka
Diaghilev
Bill T. Jones
Fokine
Paul Taylor
26. Shortened skirt to show off pointe work - starred in La Sylphide
Alvin Ailey
Charles Weidman
Charles Didelot
Marie Taglioni
27. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Merce Cunningham
Fanny Elssler
Rudolph Nureyev
Alvin Ailey
28. Father of Russian ballet
Twyla Tharp
Charles Didelot
Leon Bakst
Arthur Mitchell
29. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Nijinska
Leon Bakst
Lincoln Kirstein
Joe Goode
30. Acts of Light
Lincoln Kirstein
Martha Graham
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Marius Petipa
31. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Paul Taylor
George Balanchine
Leon Bakst
Milhaud
32. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Massine
Ivanov
Diaghilev
Lincoln Kirstein
33. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Robert Ellis Dunn
Anton Dolin
Charles Weidman
Merce Cunningham
34. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Robert Ellis Dunn
Twyla Tharp
Fokine
Alvin Ailey
35. Choregraphed (the sleeping beauty and nutcracker - swan lake)
Marius Petipa
Merce Cunningham
Fred Astaire
Anton Dolin
36. First lady of modern dance
Diaghilev
Arthur Saint-Leon
Ruth St. Denis
Robert Ellis Dunn
37. La Spectre de la Rose
Diaghilev
Milhaud
Fokine
Folkine - Nijinsky
38. Apollo - 1928
Mary Wigman
Balanchine
Theophile Gautier
Ruby Keeler
39. Wrote against male dancers
Balanchine
Theophile Gautier
Rudolph Laban
Robert Ellis Dunn
40. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Fokine
Louis Horst
Ruth St. Denis
Diaghilev
41. Brought ballet to Paris
Diaghilev
Robert Ellis Dunn
Ginger Rogers
Martha Graham
42. Movement in hips
Arthur Mitchell
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Nijinska
Merce Cunningham
43. Founded American Dance Theater in New York City
Hanya Holm
Alvin Ailey
Arthur Saint-Leon
Suzanne Linglor
44. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Robert Joffrey
Busby Berkeley
Garth Fagan
Robert Ellis Dunn
45. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Rudolph Laban
George Balanchine
Jules Perrot
Loie Fuller
46. Musician who had an impact on Modern Dance -Created choreography at Merce Cunningham's Studio
Fokine
Garth Fagan
Robert Ellis Dunn
Pilobolus
47. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Busby Berkeley
Jean Coralli
Theophile Gautier
Lucien Petipa
48. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Jean Baptiste Lande
Theophile Gautier
Bill T. Jones
August Bournonville
49. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Mary Wigman
Garth Fagan
Fokine
Diaghilev
50. Considered the greatest male dancer of the romantic era
Jose Limon
Jules Perrot
Fokine
Dr. Louis Vernon