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1. 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
Carlotta Grisi
Leon Bakst
Dance Theater of Harlem
Nijinsky
2. 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
Lincoln Kirstein
Deeply There - 1998
Eleo Pomare
American Ballet Theater
3. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
AIDS
Scheherezade
Mary Wigman
Foyer de la Danse
4. 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
The Dying Swan - 1905
Jules Perrot
Donald McKayle
Apollo - 1928
5. 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
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Les Sylphides
Gus Solomons Jr
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
6. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Postmodern Dance
Arthur Saint Leon
Swan Lake - 1895
George Balanchine
7. 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)
Doris Humphrey
19th Amendment
Franco-Prussian War
Giselle - 1841
8. 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
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Louis Horst
Debussy
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
9. In charge of new Paris Opera; under his direction - Paris Opera made a profit for the only time in its existence; slashed salaries of ballerinas to force them into mistresshood for fellow Jockey's
Paul Taylor
Cleopatre -1909
Giselle - 1841
Dr. Louis Vernon
10. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Ruby Keeler
Africanist Aesthetic
Merce Cunningham
Political Asylum
11. 1937 Founded by Ballet Russe's Mikhail Mordkin as Mordkin Ballet- Repertory company- features choreography of many artists such as Adolph Bolm - Michel Fokine - Leonide Massine - Bronislava Jijinska - Balanchine and Agnes de Mille
Lincoln Kirstein
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Petrouchka - 1911
American Ballet Theater
12. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Harlem
Rite of Spring - 1913
Les Sylphides
Fokine
13. 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
Mary Wigman
La Sylphide - 1832
Doris Humphrey
Deeply There - 1998
14. 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.)
Anna Pavlova
Cachucha
The Dying Swan - 1905
Charles Didelot
15. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
Political Asylum
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Charles Weidman
Daughter of the Pharaoh
16. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Rudolph Nureyev
Busby Berkeley
Imperial Russian Ballet
Ballet Russes
17. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Jean Baptiste Lande
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Paul Taylor
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
18. Created the well-known Denishawn school with his wife Ruth St. Denis. They taught dancers diverse styles - With his wife they set up the foundations for the principal of Musical Visualization 'a concept that called for movement equivalents to the tim
Ted Shawn
Donald McKayle
Savoy Ballroom
Carlotta Grisi
19. Waddling on their heels - legs straight - tap dance transition step - dances are about weight and being grounded - not defying gravity - jumps are about coming down - rather than going up - connection of Africanist dance & American modern dance
Ballet Russes
Four Temperaments - 1946
Donald McKayle
Rudolph Laban
20. A Colombian-American modern dance choreographer known for his politically-charged productions depicting the black experience - notable productions include Missa Luba in 1965 - Blues for the Jungle in 1966 (portraying life in Harlem) - Las Desenamorad
Russian Revolution
Eleo Pomare
Donald McKayle
Acts of Light - 1981
21. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
Jose Limon
Pelvic contraction and release
Buddy Dean Show
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
22. Choreography Deeply There
Ruby Keeler
Joe Goode
Massine
Jean Jacques Rousseau
23. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
AIDS
Mary Wigman
Foyer de la Danse
Black Swan Pas de Deux
24. 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
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Suzanne Linglor
19th Amendment
25. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Aureole - 1962
Buddy Dean Show
Dance Theater of Harlem
Rudolph Nureyev
26. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Buddy Dean Show
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
La Sylphide - 1832
Doris Humphrey
27. 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
Franco-Prussian War
Jitterbug
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Merce Cunningham
28. Choreographed by Petipa & Ivanov - Odette (under a spell) & Odile look alike - Prince Siegfried (Odette saves other swans & tells him her tale) - his mother throws a ball for him to find a wife - Odile shows up as Odette & Prince commits his love to
Grand Pas de Deux
Swan Lake - 1895
Charles Weidman
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
29. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
Still/Here - 1994
Louis Horst
John Cage
Margaret Sanger
30. Radically new or original
Les Noces - 1923
Avant-Garde
Four Temperaments - 1946
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
31. HIV - choreographed Still Here - organized survivor workshops
Bill T. Jones
Talley Beatty
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Jockey Club
32. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Charles Weidman
Petipa Styles of Movement
Deeply There - 1998
Gas-lighting and curtain
33. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
Lincoln Kirstein
Stravinsky
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Africanist Aesthetic
34. Last member of the group that helped found the modern dance movement - Amassed a growing collection of 133 dances - His work created the Paul Taylor Dance Company - Known for his innovative and sometimes controversial choreography - Still considered
Shirley Temple
Imperial Russian Ballet
Paul Taylor
Swan Lake - 1895
35. 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
Jean Coralli
Nijinsky
Jean Baptiste Lande
Robert Ellis Dunn
36. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Mary Wigman
Prince of Wales
Agon - 1957
August Bournonville
37. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
HIV+
Swan Lake - 1895
Percussive Movement
Diaghilev
38. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Louis Horst
Tap Dance
Pilobolus
Nijinska
39. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Alvin Ailey
Dr. Louis Vernon
Pilobolus
Romantic Era
40. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Suzanne Linglor
Marius Petipa
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
41. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Philip Taglioni
Aureole - 1962
Coca Chanel
42. 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.
Middle Class
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Loie Fuller
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
43. 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
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Aureole - 1962
Buddy Dean Show
44. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Robert le Diable
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
American Ballet Theater
Philip Taglioni
45. 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
Arthur Saint Leon
Martha Graham
Nijinska
Ivanov
46. 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
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Buddy Dean Show
Joffrey Ballet
Rose Adagio
47. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Duet - 1957
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Jeux - 1913
Mikhail Baryshnikov
48. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Rose Adagio
Martha Graham
Pilobolus
Jules Perrot
49. (1819-1899) -Italian ballerina -Leading role in Giselle -Combined techniques of Taglioni & Elssler -Known for strength & lightness
Katherine Dunham
Rudolph Laban
Carlotta Grisi
Judson Church
50. 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
Grand Pas de Deux
Denishawn
Rudolph Laban
Jitterbug