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Dance History
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1. 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
Martha Graham
Savoy Ballroom
Cleopatre -1909
Imperial Russian Ballet
2. Alwin Nikolais - had a lot of ribbons - very involved in the sounds - wearing skin colored clothes - drum music - elastic ropes and strings - all across stage
Jockey Club
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Arthur Saint Leon
3. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
19th Amendment
Marie Taglioni
Philip Taglioni
Mary Wigman
4. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Jean Baptiste Lande
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Theophile Gautier
Jose Limon
5. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Anna Pavlova
Imperial Russian Ballet
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Political Asylum
6. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Agon - 1957
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Judson Church
7. 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
Robert Ellis Dunn
Ballet Russes
Cleopatre -1909
8. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Pablo Picasso
Diaghilev
Garth Fagan
Hip-hop
9. 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
Eleo Pomare
Margaret Sanger
Jeux - 1913
Le Train Bleu - 1924
10. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Swan Lake - 1895
Arthur Mitchell
Les Noces - 1923
Joffrey Ballet
11. Founded the Gus Solomons Company/Dance - whose repertoire consisted of detailed and analytical compositions that were conceived as 'melted architecture' - drawing from experience as an architecture student at MIT
Africanist Aesthetic
Robert le Diable
La Sylphide - 1832
Gus Solomons Jr
12. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
New York City Ballet
Mary Wigman
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
George Balanchine
13. (1819-1899) -Italian ballerina -Leading role in Giselle -Combined techniques of Taglioni & Elssler -Known for strength & lightness
Rudolph Nureyev
Ballet Russes
Pelvic contraction and release
Carlotta Grisi
14. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Acts of Light - 1981
Shirley Temple
Donald McKayle
Ruby Keeler
15. Broke color barrier - developed stair dance - danced with Shirley Temple - made 'honorary mayor of Harlem' -
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16. HIV - choreographed Still Here - organized survivor workshops
Shirley Temple
Gus Solomons Jr
Bill T. Jones
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
17. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Africanist Aesthetic
Jose Limon
Alvin Ailey
Mikhail Baryshnikov
18. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
Agon - 1957
Twyla Tharp
Schizophrenia
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
19. Interrupted first flush of success of Coppelia and the included the siege of Paris - which also led to the early death of Giuseppina Bozzacchi - on her 17th birthday - but eventually it became the most-performed ballet at the Opera Garnier.
Franco-Prussian War
George Balanchine
Deeply There - 1998
Avant-Garde
20. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
Pelvic contraction and release
Robert le Diable
John Cage
Donald McKayle
21. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Arthur Mitchell
Suzanne Linglor
Charles Didelot
The Nutcracker - 1892
22. Teacher in Merce's studio Who is remembered for creating a competitive environment filled w/ experimentation for new dance styles
Robert Ellis Dunn
Rudolph Laban
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Arthur Mitchell
23. Inspired by Gautier's novel The Story of the Mummy - very complicated - spectacular - successful ballet - Aspica is the daughter - English Lord in sand storm goes into tomb & gets put into an opium dream where he becomes Tahor and saves Aspico from a
Lincoln Kirstein
Jitterbug
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Jean Baptiste Lande
24. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
Talley Beatty
Coca Chanel
Dance Theater of Harlem
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
25. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Jean Baptiste Lande
Anton Dolin
Deeply There - 1998
Alwin Nikolais
26. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Jose Limon
Petipa Styles of Movement
The Dying Swan - 1905
Lindy Hop
27. Sharp powerful movement; angle
Jean Baptiste Lande
Alvin Ailey
Percussive Movement
Gas-lighting and curtain
28. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Nijinska
Cachucha
Grand Pas de Deux
Hanya Holm
29. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
The Dying Swan - 1905
Isadora Duncan
Eleo Pomare
30. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Anton Dolin
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Franco-Prussian War
Robert Joffrey
31. St. Denis and Ted Shawn's company that helps spread the gospel of dance from the constraints of ballet - opened a school in Los Angeles - brought dance to the middle class by supporting good health and virginal spirituality
Jose Limon
Divertissement
Denishawn
Leon Bakst
32. Star male dancer of Ballets Russes; became chief choreographer for one year - 1913 - Afternoon of a Faun - Rite of Spring - and Jeux. Rite caused a riot
Ted Shawn
Milhaud
Leon Bakst
Nijinsky
33. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Robert le Diable
Ballet Russes
Romantic Era
Bill T. Jones
34. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
George Balanchine
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Postmodern Dance
Ballet Russes
35. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Garth Fagan
Divertissement
Jose Limon
Le Train Bleu - 1924
36. Confirmed that Balanchine was an experimentalist - Africanist principles in his rhythmic scores - turns not resolved as in ballet - they just stop - take 'one' counts rather than 'and' counts
Margaret Sanger
AIDS
Apollo - 1928
Coca Chanel
37. Choreographer of Parade & Three-Cornered hat - known for symphonic ballet - comedy satire - character dancing - and color
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Still/Here - 1994
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Massine
38. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Giselle - 1841
Rose Adagio
Rudolph Laban
Tap Dance
39. 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
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Ivanov
Alwin Nikolais
Robert Ellis Dunn
40. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Middle Class
George Balanchine
41. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Petipa Styles of Movement
Petrouchka - 1911
Stravinsky
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
42. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Jose Limon
The Dying Swan - 1905
Still/Here - 1994
Jean Jacques Rousseau
43. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
Lion King - 1998
Duet - 1957
Anton Dolin
Le Train Bleu - 1924
44. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Arthur Saint Leon
Schizophrenia
New York City Ballet
Middle Class
45. Different names but same theater under different political influences
Fall and Recovery
George Balanchine
Judson Church
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
46. Dances have no linear development; no central focus on stage; a field of dancers where you can watch any dancer from any direction and decide for yourself where the focus of the dance is
Merce Cunningham
Divertissement
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Arthur Mitchell
47. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
Ronald Brown
Milhaud
Katherine Dunham
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
48. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Harlem
Apollo - 1928
Ulysses Dove
Acts of Light - 1981
49. A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
AIDS
Jules Perrot
Arthur Saint Leon
George Balanchine
50. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
Parade - 1917
Denishawn
Robert Ellis Dunn
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
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