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Dance History
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1. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Milhaud
2. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Alwin Nikolais
Swan Lake - 1895
La Sylphide - 1832
Africanist Aesthetic
3. 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
Margaret Sanger
Scheherezade
Joffrey Ballet
Charles Weidman
4. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Charles Didelot
Coca Chanel
Lion King - 1998
Gus Solomons Jr
5. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
La Sylphide - 1832
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Middle Class
Diaghilev
6. Choreography Deeply There
Still/Here - 1994
Joe Goode
Fall and Recovery
Arthur Saint Leon
7. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Ruby Keeler
Robert le Diable
Fanny Elssler
Hip-hop
8. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
Gas-lighting and curtain
Alwin Nikolais
George Balanchine
Charles Weidman
9. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
George Balanchine
Industrial Revolution
Diaghilev
AIDS
10. 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.
Lindy Hop
Acts of Light - 1981
Doris Humphrey
Shirley Temple
11. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Stravinsky
Cachucha
Agon - 1957
12. Radically new or original
Theophile Gautier
Rudolph Laban
Avant-Garde
Cachucha
13. Designer. Influenced by Greek and Asian art. Costumes and sets full of bold colors. Decorative motifs that employed perspective painting. Successful with ballet. 'sophisticated eclecticism'. Teacher.
Leon Bakst
Rose Adagio
Les Noces - 1923
Duet - 1957
14. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Ted Shawn
Mary Wigman
Judson Church
Harlem
15. First book of choreography; published posthumously in 1959
The Art of Making Dances
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Gus Solomons Jr
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
16. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Charles Didelot
Acts of Light - 1981
Robert Joffrey
Ronald Brown
17. HIV - choreographed Still Here - organized survivor workshops
Gas-lighting and curtain
Bill T. Jones
Divertissement
Diaghilev
18. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Philip Taglioni
Arthur Mitchell
Judson Church
Franco-Prussian War
19. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Nijinsky
Lincoln Kirstein
AIDS
Tchaikovsky
20. 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)
Avant-Garde
The Dying Swan - 1905
Nicholas Brothers
Rite of Spring - 1913
21. 1896-1976 - American - Choreographer - Developed 1930's film fantasy with his daredevil and genius dance design - developed the stage style musical film into a more involved multi-shot fantasy film style with overhead shots - use of tiered set desig
Arthur Saint Leon
Busby Berkeley
Schizophrenia
Alwin Nikolais
22. 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
Imperial Russian Ballet
Hanya Holm
Fokine
Jean Jacques Rousseau
23. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Ballet Russes
Lindy Hop
Carlotta Grisi
24. 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
Harlem
La Sylphide - 1832
Milhaud
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
25. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
Paul Taylor
Talley Beatty
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Twyla Tharp
26. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Jules Perrot
Russian Revolution
Ted Shawn
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
27. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Jean Baptiste Lande
Coppelia
Duet - 1957
Milhaud
28. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Fanny Elssler
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Debussy
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
29. Different styles: 1. hoofers: Gregory Hines - Savion Glover - intricate footwork 2. class acts: Fred Astaire - Ginger Rodgers - refined and elegant 3. flash acts: tap with acrobatics 4. soft shoe: skimming floor - producing soft & muted steps
Merce Cunningham
Deeply There - 1998
Aureole - 1962
Tap Dance
30. 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
Swan Lake - 1895
Tap Dance
Hip-hop
Pablo Picasso
31. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
John Cage
Les Noces - 1923
Jules Perrot
Hip-hop
32. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
AIDS
Pablo Picasso
Ruby Keeler
Fokine
33. Nijinsky choreographed - in the forest - nymphs shows up to flirt with the Faun - one of them drops her scarf - they all leave - and he masturbates into the scarf
Twyla Tharp
Grand Pas de Deux
Pelvic contraction and release
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
34. 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
Hip-hop
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Anna Pavlova
Pablo Picasso
35. 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
Carlotta Grisi
Dance Theater of Harlem
Jean Coralli
Apollo - 1928
36. 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
Massine
Ballroom Dance
Dance Theater of Harlem
37. 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
Pelvic contraction and release
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Joffrey Ballet
38. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Marius Petipa
Petrouchka - 1911
Dance Theater of Harlem
August Bournonville
39. 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
Scheherezade
Joffrey Ballet
Dance Theater of Harlem
Petipa Styles of Movement
40. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Giselle - 1841
Cleopatre -1909
Hanya Holm
Apollo - 1928
41. (1819-1899) -Italian ballerina -Leading role in Giselle -Combined techniques of Taglioni & Elssler -Known for strength & lightness
AIDS
Mary Wigman
Carlotta Grisi
Gas-lighting and curtain
42. Published in London Times 1914 - want to make 'ballet a fully expressive art that mirrored life' - new movement for each dance - no mime (Petipa used so that the audience always understood) - use entire body (to be expressive) - no divertissement (no
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43. Petipa & Tchaikovsky - was not successful at the time it came out - no trace of sensible dramatic action
Coca Chanel
Denishawn
Stravinsky
The Nutcracker - 1892
44. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Swan Lake - 1895
The Dying Swan - 1905
Rudolph Nureyev
45. 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
Tap Dance
Debussy
Aureole - 1962
D-Man in the Water - 1989
46. 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)
Nijinska
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
AIDS
Doris Humphrey
47. 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
Rudolph Nureyev
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Marius Petipa
Pilobolus
48. Dancer - choreographer - teacher - born 1930 in NY - began dancing senior year of HS - scholarship to New Dance group. studied with Primus. Professional debut in 1948 - choreographed 1st pieces with group when 18 - 1951 founded contemporary dance gro
Debussy
AIDS
Robert Joffrey
Donald McKayle
49. 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
Tsar
Louis Horst
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Ivanov
50. 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
Four Temperaments - 1946
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Ronald Brown
Arthur Saint Leon
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