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Dance History
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1. First book of choreography; published posthumously in 1959
Rite of Spring - 1913
The Art of Making Dances
Deeply There - 1998
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
2. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Petipa Styles of Movement
Tsar
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Fall and Recovery
3. Choreographer of Parade & Three-Cornered hat - known for symphonic ballet - comedy satire - character dancing - and color
Massine
Acts of Light - 1981
Romantic Era
Jitterbug
4. 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
Bill T. Jones
Pablo Picasso
Nijinska
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
5. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Rite of Spring - 1913
Massine
Donald McKayle
6. (1822-1910) created the first ballet that would later be classified as classical ballet. He also held the position of Ballet Master in Chief to the Imperial Tsar in 1869. created Don Quixote and La Bayadere and many other works. Though he did not cho
Fall and Recovery
Parade - 1917
Postmodern Dance
Marius Petipa
7. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Schizophrenia
Philip Taglioni
Grand Pas de Deux
Hanya Holm
8. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
George Balanchine
Arthur Saint Leon
Nijinska
Jose Limon
9. Height of Romantic Ballet - Star: Carlotta Grisi - Choreographer: Jules Perrot (Carlotta's lover) & Jean Coralli - Written by: Gautier (Who was in love with Grisi) - Act I (sunlit) - Act II (moonlit)
Giselle - 1841
Ballet Russes
AIDS
Pablo Picasso
10. 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)
Nicholas Brothers
Eleo Pomare
Still/Here - 1994
Pelvic contraction and release
11. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Grand Pas de Deux
Merce Cunningham
Alwin Nikolais
12. By Martha Graham - focuses on technique - used technique as her own language - inspired by when she moved to Santa Barbara as a child - choneo - straight out of technique class - running on the cliffs of Santa Barbara and the development of her techn
Fall and Recovery
Acts of Light - 1981
Ivanov
Africanist Aesthetic
13. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Ballet Russes
Harlem
Ruth St. Denis
14. 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
Industrial Revolution
Lion King - 1998
Merce Cunningham
Milhaud
15. Work written at a time when one of Jones' company dancers - Demian Acquavella - nicknamed D-Man - was suffering from AIDS; a celebratory - affectionate work about the company defiantly remaining joyful - loving - productive - and cohesive in the face
Duet - 1957
Romantic Era
D-Man in the Water - 1989
AIDS
16. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Robert Joffrey
Pilobolus
Ronald Brown
17. 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
Still/Here - 1994
Denishawn
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
18. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Tap Dance
Foyer de la Danse
Diaghilev
Dr. Louis Vernon
19. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Nijinska
Ballroom Dance
Percussive Movement
Debussy
20. 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)
Talley Beatty
Avant-Garde
Doris Humphrey
Giselle - 1841
21. Started in NYC by Robert Joffrey - small company - repertoire was eclectic and contemporary - reconstructed works from Diaghilev's Ballets Russes - Financially weak - often folded - moved to LA then chicago
Cleopatre -1909
Joffrey Ballet
Petipa Styles of Movement
Stravinsky
22. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Prince of Wales
Dr. Louis Vernon
Eleo Pomare
Robert le Diable
23. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Dance Theater of Harlem
Romantic Era
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Nijinska
24. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Ruby Keeler
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Massine
25. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Philip Taglioni
Joe Goode
Lindy Hop
Ted Shawn
26. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
HIV+
Charles Didelot
Anton Dolin
Mary Wigman
27. 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
Gus Solomons Jr
Jeux - 1913
Bill T. Jones
Fanny Elssler
28. 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.
AIDS
Suzanne Linglor
Franco-Prussian War
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
29. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Cleopatre -1909
Theophile Gautier
Aureole - 1962
Arthur Mitchell
30. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Industrial Revolution
Charles Didelot
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Political Asylum
31. Was inspired by a cigarette poster featuring the Egyptian goddess Isis to begin investigation Asian art and dance - Founded the Denishawn School of dancing and Related Arts with her husband Ted Shawn in 1915 in Los Angeles - California - Believed tha
Ruth St. Denis
Ted Shawn
Russian Revolution
August Bournonville
32. 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
Stravinsky
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Schizophrenia
Hanya Holm
33. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
American Ballet Theater
Scheherezade
John Cage
Franco-Prussian War
34. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Charles Didelot
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Petrouchka - 1911
Marie Taglioni
35. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Jules Perrot
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Anna Pavlova
Cleopatre -1909
36. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
Foyer de la Danse
Suzanne Linglor
Ulysses Dove
Ballet Russes
37. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
New York City Ballet
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
August Bournonville
Rudolph Laban
38. 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
Theophile Gautier
Talley Beatty
Postmodern Dance
39. Wrote Discourse on the Origins of the Inequality of Mankind; wrote The Social Contract; wrote Confessions; believed that emotions as well as reason were important to human development but sent his own children to orphanages
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Philip Taglioni
Rite of Spring - 1913
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
40. Radically new or original
Postmodern Dance
Avant-Garde
Cachucha
Tchaikovsky
41. Studio behind the stage at the Paris Opera which is now used as a rehearsal stage and a reception venue but which was notorious in the 19th century (during the reign of Dr Varon) as the salon where members of the Jockey Club could meet dancers.
Foyer de la Danse
Industrial Revolution
Tsar
Nicholas Brothers
42. Most important figure in Russia in immediately pre-Romantic days. Did much to improve the repertory and teaching. 20 ballets - raised standards. Flying wires - pointe works.
Charles Didelot
The Nutcracker - 1892
Jean Jacques Rousseau
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
43. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
Anton Dolin
Leon Bakst
Philip Taglioni
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
44. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Suzanne Linglor
Duet - 1957
Mary Wigman
Les Noces - 1923
45. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
August Bournonville
Anna Pavlova
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Milhaud
46. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a woman who comes home from a ball and puts a rose on a table - falls asleep and dances with the spirit of the rose - the rose jumps out the window; most famous jump in dance history
Doris Humphrey
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Rose Adagio
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
47. Student of Mary Wigman. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German modern to U.S. but Americanized her technique. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew
Scheherezade
Tchaikovsky
Franco-Prussian War
Hanya Holm
48. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Tchaikovsky
Martha Graham
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
49. 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.
Shirley Temple
Ballroom Dance
Tsar
Aureole - 1962
50. Works to question the complexities of real life
Lion King - 1998
Divertissement
Postmodern Dance
Marie Taglioni