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Dance History
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1. Choreographer of Parade & Three-Cornered hat - known for symphonic ballet - comedy satire - character dancing - and color
Massine
Coppelia
Leon Bakst
Joe Goode
2. Child actress could dance and sing very well - was able to keep up with Bill Robinson in tap dancing - was seen as the hope during the Great Depression.
Dance Theater of Harlem
Les Noces - 1923
Pelvic contraction and release
Shirley Temple
3. HIV - choreographed Still Here - organized survivor workshops
Ballroom Dance
Savoy Ballroom
Lion King - 1998
Bill T. Jones
4. One of the major figures in the development of modern dance - an American dancer - choreographer and teacher who created more than 150 works on a wide range of subjects from ancient Greek to modern American; contraction and release
Hip-hop
Twyla Tharp
Martha Graham
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
5. Famous ballerina who formed her own company and toured 1910 - famous for portraying birds - insects - and plants - brought ballet (aristocratic art) to the common person (high schools - etc.)
Fanny Elssler
Fokine
Marius Petipa
Anna Pavlova
6. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Bill T. Jones
Africanist Aesthetic
Leon Bakst
Fall and Recovery
7. Arthur Mitchell founder and artistic director -1st black dancer to break color barrier for classical ballet -America's 1st outstanding ballet company of black dancers -started school with Karel Shook -shaped by Balanchine -Dancers known for warmth an
Dance Theater of Harlem
Jules Perrot
Alvin Ailey
Scheherezade
8. Predominately black - but whites attended - social dances were done - had to change the floor every three years because of the intense dancing - many whites went to go watch Black People Dance
Milhaud
Twyla Tharp
Ivanov
Savoy Ballroom
9. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Africanist Aesthetic
Twyla Tharp
Rudolph Nureyev
Les Noces - 1923
10. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Jockey Club
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Anton Dolin
11. Choreographed by Paul Taylor; Modern dance work in one act with choreography by Taylor - music by Handel - and lighting by T. Skelton. Premiered 4 Aug. 1962 at Connecticut College - New London - by the Paul Taylor Dance Company with Taylor - Elizabet
Scheherezade
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Aureole - 1962
Alvin Ailey
12. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
AIDS
Lion King - 1998
Tchaikovsky
Postmodern Dance
13. One of the artistic giants of the twentieth century. Helped found the Cubist and Abstract movements. During his life - 1881-1973 - he worked in various media and is noted for scores of important works. His painting Guernica is one of the most powerfu
The Nutcracker - 1892
Pablo Picasso
Imperial Russian Ballet
HIV+
14. Marius Petipa - 4 fairies for Aurora - did not invite the evil fairy - put a spell on Aurora @ 16 she would prick her finger on a spindle & fall asleep for 100 years - End of Act I pricks her finger - Act III is the wedding (divertissement - Grand Pa
Petipa Styles of Movement
Foyer de la Danse
Philip Taglioni
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
15. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Acts of Light - 1981
Rose Adagio
Tsar
Romantic Era
16. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Judson Church
The Dying Swan - 1905
Talley Beatty
Still/Here - 1994
17. Sharp powerful movement; angle
Percussive Movement
Judson Church
Les Noces - 1923
Gas-lighting and curtain
18. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Petipa Styles of Movement
Jitterbug
Jose Limon
Hip-hop
19. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Fokine
Cleopatre -1909
Donald McKayle
Massine
20. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Marie Taglioni
Charles Didelot
Nijinska
Arthur Saint Leon
21. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958); Established the Choreographic Institute in Zurich - Founded branches across Europe - Kinetographie Laban=labanotation - primary movement - notation stilled used today in dance - Conte
Petrouchka - 1911
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Rudolph Laban
Gas-lighting and curtain
22. Works to question the complexities of real life
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Gus Solomons Jr
Postmodern Dance
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
23. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
19th Amendment
AIDS
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Bill T. Jones
24. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Buddy Dean Show
Milhaud
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
August Bournonville
25. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
August Bournonville
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Coppelia
Divertissement
26. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
HIV+
Rite of Spring - 1913
Anna Pavlova
Carlotta Grisi
27. Music that combines spoken street dialect with cuts (samples) from older records and bears the influences of social politics - male boasting - and comic lyrics carried forward from blues - R&b - soul and rock and roll
Hip-hop
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Arthur Saint Leon
Philip Taglioni
28. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
Jose Limon
Savoy Ballroom
Jockey Club
Arthur Mitchell
29. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Leon Bakst
Twyla Tharp
Franco-Prussian War
Jean Baptiste Lande
30. Considered one of the greatest of African American choreographers - and also bears the titles dancer - educator - and dance company director. After studying under Katherine Dunham and Martha Graham - went on to do solo work and choreograph his own wo
Loie Fuller
Talley Beatty
Petipa Styles of Movement
Marius Petipa
31. High energy act of two African american brothers - Fayard and Harold - had a 'flash act' consisting of an acrobatic tap style - were in movies - only African Americans encouraged to mingle with audience (by audeince demand)
Deeply There - 1998
Louis Horst
Coca Chanel
Nicholas Brothers
32. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Mary Wigman
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Katherine Dunham
Judson Church
33. Born in NY - raised in Boston - first exposure to dance in 1920 - witness Diaghilev funeral - worked with Balanchine - established NYC ballet - passion for Japenese culture
Rudolph Laban
Pablo Picasso
Lincoln Kirstein
Debussy
34. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Arthur Mitchell
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Twyla Tharp
35. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Franco-Prussian War
Petrouchka - 1911
Louis Horst
Ruth St. Denis
36. Contemporary of Duncan's. Design orientation. Known for manipulation of costumes that would make flowing patterns and dance was non-emotional. Also did light design.
Loie Fuller
Nijinska
George Balanchine
Pablo Picasso
37. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Diaghilev
Eleo Pomare
Fokine
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
38. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact; Nijinsky had this illness
Schizophrenia
Philip Taglioni
Pilobolus
Romantic Era
39. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Africanist Aesthetic
Arthur Mitchell
Fokine
Jockey Club
40. Comedy - has sport movements - about a train taken to the beach where a plane flies over - spoof about Frenchman who wants to be very shallow American
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Rudolph Laban
Grand Pas de Deux
Tsar
41. Choreographed by Filippino Taglioni and performed by one of the greatest ballerinas of the 19th century Marie Taglioni. One of the most famous Romantic Ballets. - First true romantic ballet
Ballet Russes
Savoy Ballroom
La Sylphide - 1832
Le Train Bleu - 1924
42. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Ruby Keeler
Jose Limon
Lincoln Kirstein
Garth Fagan
43. Were top musical stars of the '30s; appeared in musicals that were considered old-fashioned when they were made; displaced their characters' sexual desire into fighting with each other
Lincoln Kirstein
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Tchaikovsky
44. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Milhaud
Nijinska
Les Sylphides
Paul Taylor
45. Wrote 'The Art of Making Dances' in 1931 - Fall and Recovery - inspired by Bach and used his work in many piece - choreographed pieces without music - Passacaglia and fugue in C minor (showed fall and recovery)
Doris Humphrey
Marius Petipa
19th Amendment
Jose Limon
46. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Jockey Club
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Charles Weidman
Denishawn
47. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Ted Shawn
Robert Joffrey
Carlotta Grisi
Denishawn
48. Petipa's assistant that takes over - choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutcracker - dies in 1901 - didn't produce anything more of importance except Swan Lake
Pilobolus
Arthur Mitchell
Ivanov
Rudolph Nureyev
49. American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City - she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the
Margaret Sanger
Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker - 1892
Pablo Picasso
50. French composer; uses harmony to reinforce stasis; Prelude to Afternoon of a Fawn (half man - half goat - simulated masturbation); concert work that became a ballet
Debussy
Cachucha
Jean Coralli
Dance Theater of Harlem
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