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Dance Famous People
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1. Apollo - 1928
Balanchine
Charles Didelot
Ivanov
Rudolph Laban
2. Choregraphed (the sleeping beauty and nutcracker - swan lake)
Lincoln Kirstein
Milhaud
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Marius Petipa
3. Father of classical ballet
Busby Berkeley
Merce Cunningham
Marius Petipa
Ivanov
4. Still/Here
Robert Ellis Dunn
Arthur Mitchell
Mary Wigman
Bill T. Jones
5. First male dancer to make an impression in U.S.
Milhaud
Nijinska
Rudolph Nureyev
Nijinsky
6. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Doris Humphrey
Diaghilev
Pilobolus
Theophile Gautier
7. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Jean Baptiste Lande
Pilobolus
Lucien Petipa
8. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Doris Humphrey
Busby Berkeley
Fokine
Alvin Ailey
9. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Nijinsky
Theophile Gautier
Mary Wigman
Fokine
10. First lady of modern dance
Robert Ellis Dunn
Merce Cunningham
Ruth St. Denis
Robert Ellis Dunn
11. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Louis Horst
Balanchine
Fokine
Busby Berkeley
12. Writer of Giselle
Theophile Gautier
Suzanne Linglor
Doris Humphrey
Nijinska
13. Listed as choreographer of Giselle because He was widely respected
Theophile Gautier
Garth Fagan
Jean Coralli
Fanny Elssler
14. Petrouchka
Arthur Mitchell
Alvin Ailey
Bill T. Jones
Fokine
15. African astheic choreography
Marius Petipa
Fokine
Garth Fagan
Balanchine
16. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Ruth St. Denis
Nijinska
Rudolph Nureyev
Alvin Ailey
17. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Balanchine
Diaghilev
Ruth St. Denis
Charles Weidman
18. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German dance to U.S. but Americanized her technique.
Robert Ellis Dunn
Hanya Holm
Charles Didelot
Rudolph Nureyev
19. Designed costumes and set of Afternoon of a Faune
Arthur Saint-Leon
Mary Wigman
Rudolph Laban
Leon Bakst
20. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Marius Petipa
Loie Fuller
Milhaud
Ruth St. Denis
21. Choreographed 'Revelations'
Hanya Holm
Nijinska
Alvin Ailey
Nijinska
22. Defected from Russia to US -Greatest danseur of the 20th century.
Folkine - Nijinsky
Nijinsky
Fokine
Mikhail Baryshnikov
23. Impressionist music
Balanchine
Debussy
Balanchine
Alwin Nikolais
24. Wrote against male dancers
Theophile Gautier
Milhaud
Marie Taglioni
Robert Ellis Dunn
25. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Twyla Tharp
Joe Goode
Ginger Rogers
Mary Wigman
26. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Marie Taglioni
Dr. Louis Vernon
Milhaud
Ivanov
27. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Alwin Nikolais
Milhaud
Arthur Mitchell
Massine
28. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Twyla Tharp
Fokine
Hanya Holm
Jose Limon
29. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet
Anton Dolin
Bill T. Jones
Suzanne Linglor
Alvin Ailey
30. Rite of Spring
Nijinsky
Milhaud
Bill T. Jones
Mary Wigman
31. Choreographed Lion King
Garth Fagan
Ginger Rogers
Hanya Holm
Paul Taylor
32. Chance dance' - focusing on the dance itself and was not interested in telling a story (fliped a coin)
Mary Wigman
Dr. Louis Vernon
Merce Cunningham
Louis Horst
33. Turned profits by slashing salaries of ballerinas so jockey club friends could have them as mistresses
Leon Bakst
Ruth St. Denis
Balanchine
Dr. Louis Vernon
34. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Merce Cunningham
Balanchine
Theophile Gautier
Ivanov
35. The art of making dances - 1959
Doris Humphrey
Rudolph Laban
Theophile Gautier
Folkine - Nijinsky
36. Choreographed Coppelia
Arthur Saint-Leon
Garth Fagan
Pilobolus
Alvin Ailey
37. Known for her 'Pagan' style of dance
Fanny Elssler
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Leon Bakst
Nijinsky
38. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Doris Humphrey
Debussy
Alwin Nikolais
Nijinska
39. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Arthur Mitchell
Mary Wigman
Pilobolus
Arthur Saint-Leon
40. Pioneer of modern dance in Germany
Milhaud
Alwin Nikolais
Mary Wigman
Fokine
41. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Doris Humphrey
Arthur Mitchell
Fokine
Ivanov
42. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Ginger Rogers
Nijinska
Nijinsky
Hanya Holm
43. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Paul Taylor
Milhaud
Arthur Mitchell
Massine
44. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Bill T. Jones
Busby Berkeley
Rudolph Nureyev
Garth Fagan
45. Movement in hips
Bill T. Jones
Arthur Mitchell
Busby Berkeley
Charles Weidman
46. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Theophile Gautier
Marius Petipa
Twyla Tharp
Ivanov
47. Class grew into Judson's Church Group
Ivanov
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Doris Humphrey
Robert Ellis Dunn
48. Known for two ballet styles of Symphonic ballet: comedic and satirical
Massine
Marius Petipa
Milhaud
Hanya Holm
49. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Fokine
Alwin Nikolais
Pilobolus
Joe Goode
50. Played Swanilda in Coppelia
Balanchine
Pilobolus
Merce Cunningham
Giuseppina Bozzacchi