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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. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Theophile Gautier
Nijinska
Ivanov
Milhaud
2. Noted for his use of African elements
Balanchine
Milhaud
Doris Humphrey
Alvin Ailey
3. Choreographed Coppelia
Arthur Saint-Leon
Anna Pavlova
Paul Taylor
Robert Joffrey
4. Developed new ways to use light and movement in her choreography
Loie Fuller
Marie Taglioni
Ruby Keeler
Arthur Mitchell
5. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Leon Bakst
Jules Perrot
Marius Petipa
Rudolph Nureyev
6. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Fokine
Debussy
Ruth St. Denis
Jules Perrot
7. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Jean Baptiste Lande
Robert Ellis Dunn
Balanchine
Nijinska
8. Brought ballet to the common person
Ruby Keeler
Anna Pavlova
Diaghilev
Bill T. Jones
9. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Fokine
Robert Ellis Dunn
Paul Taylor
Theophile Gautier
10. Shortened skirt to show off pointe work - starred in La Sylphide
Hanya Holm
Fokine
Marie Taglioni
Robert Ellis Dunn
11. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Balanchine
Lincoln Kirstein
Fokine
Alwin Nikolais
12. First lady of modern dance
Ruby Keeler
Ruth St. Denis
Marius Petipa
Theophile Gautier
13. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Doris Humphrey
Alwin Nikolais
Dr. Louis Vernon
Loie Fuller
14. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Doris Humphrey
Pilobolus
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Robert Joffrey
15. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Louis Horst
Anton Dolin
Joe Goode
Rudolph Laban
16. Danced in Berkeley's movies - First movie dancing star of 1930's 42nd street led to her success
Milhaud
Anton Dolin
Ruby Keeler
Ivanov
17. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Alvin Ailey
Louis Horst
August Bournonville
Massine
18. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Massine
Rudolph Nureyev
Marius Petipa
Suzanne Linglor
19. La Spectre de la Rose
Folkine - Nijinsky
Paul Taylor
Mary Wigman
Robert Ellis Dunn
20. Acts of Light
Robert Ellis Dunn
Philip Taglioni
Nijinsky
Martha Graham
21. Impressionist music
Debussy
Ruby Keeler
Leon Bakst
Theophile Gautier
22. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Anna Pavlova
Leon Bakst
Doris Humphrey
Ginger Rogers
23. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Anton Dolin
Charles Weidman
Ivanov
Robert Joffrey
24. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Balanchine
Fokine
Jules Perrot
Massine
25. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Diaghilev
Rudolph Nureyev
Hanya Holm
Alvin Ailey
26. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
Rudolph Laban
Theophile Gautier
Alvin Ailey
Jules Perrot
27. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Pilobolus
Philip Taglioni
Milhaud
Balanchine
28. Founded American Dance Theater in New York City
Arthur Mitchell
Alvin Ailey
Marius Petipa
Arthur Mitchell
29. Brought ballet to Paris
Diaghilev
Merce Cunningham
Doris Humphrey
Busby Berkeley
30. Movement in hips
Arthur Mitchell
Lincoln Kirstein
Ruby Keeler
Charles Weidman
31. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Fred Astaire
Busby Berkeley
Balanchine
Lincoln Kirstein
32. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet
Charles Weidman
Anton Dolin
Joe Goode
Paul Taylor
33. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Jean Baptiste Lande
August Bournonville
Theophile Gautier
Busby Berkeley
34. Father of classical ballet
Marius Petipa
Rudolph Nureyev
Mary Wigman
Nijinsky
35. Choreographed 'Revelations'
Ivanov
Alvin Ailey
Nijinsky
Jules Perrot
36. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Alvin Ailey
Robert Ellis Dunn
Milhaud
Balanchine
37. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Massine
Alvin Ailey
Alwin Nikolais
Bill T. Jones
38. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Theophile Gautier
Balanchine
Margaret Sanger
Anton Dolin
39. Choreographed Jeux
Alvin Ailey
Jean Baptiste Lande
Fanny Elssler
Nijinsky
40. Chance dance' - focusing on the dance itself and was not interested in telling a story (fliped a coin)
Rudolph Nureyev
Merce Cunningham
Balanchine
Ruth St. Denis
41. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Mary Wigman
Bill T. Jones
Merce Cunningham
Arthur Saint-Leon
42. Still/Here
Ruby Keeler
Fokine
Bill T. Jones
Doris Humphrey
43. Pioneer of modern dance in Germany
Loie Fuller
Mary Wigman
Balanchine
Diaghilev
44. AVANT GARDE -CHOREOGRAPHED AUREOLE
Loie Fuller
Charles Didelot
Paul Taylor
Fred Astaire
45. Petrouchka
Fokine
Martha Graham
Balanchine
Robert Ellis Dunn
46. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
George Balanchine
Busby Berkeley
Alwin Nikolais
Nijinska
47. Listed as choreographer of Giselle because He was widely respected
Jean Coralli
Fokine
Nijinsky
Bill T. Jones
48. Father of Russian ballet
Anton Dolin
Charles Didelot
Anton Dolin
Nijinsky
49. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Paul Taylor
Merce Cunningham
Diaghilev
50. First female ballet choreographer of the 20th century
Alwin Nikolais
Nijinska
Suzanne Linglor
Arthur Saint-Leon