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Dance History
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1. 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)
Divertissement
Nicholas Brothers
George Balanchine
John Cage
2. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Pelvic contraction and release
Grand Pas de Deux
New York City Ballet
Les Noces - 1923
3. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
Jeux - 1913
19th Amendment
Les Sylphides
Coca Chanel
4. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
Parade - 1917
Ballet Russes
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Avant-Garde
5. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Avant-Garde
Philip Taglioni
Rite of Spring - 1913
The Dying Swan - 1905
6. Works to question the complexities of real life
Cleopatre -1909
Postmodern Dance
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Swan Lake - 1895
7. 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
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Nijinsky
Talley Beatty
Diaghilev
8. Petipa & Tchaikovsky - was not successful at the time it came out - no trace of sensible dramatic action
Ivanov
The Nutcracker - 1892
The Dying Swan - 1905
Fokine
9. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Tap Dance
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Les Noces - 1923
10. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Theophile Gautier
Petipa Styles of Movement
Nicholas Brothers
Rose Adagio
11. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Swan Lake - 1895
Dance Theater of Harlem
Jean Baptiste Lande
12. Broke color barrier - developed stair dance - danced with Shirley Temple - made 'honorary mayor of Harlem' -
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13. 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
Nijinska
Alvin Ailey
Debussy
Ruth St. Denis
14. 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
Diaghilev
Marius Petipa
Tap Dance
Cleopatre -1909
15. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Joffrey Ballet
Pilobolus
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Cleopatre -1909
16. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Pilobolus
Petipa Styles of Movement
Imperial Russian Ballet
Aureole - 1962
17. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Loie Fuller
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Suzanne Linglor
Milhaud
18. 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
Judson Church
Dance Theater of Harlem
Ivanov
Isadora Duncan
19. 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.
Cleopatre -1909
Foyer de la Danse
Harlem
Fanny Elssler
20. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Avant-Garde
Louis Horst
Jockey Club
Robert le Diable
21. Choreographer of Parade & Three-Cornered hat - known for symphonic ballet - comedy satire - character dancing - and color
Leon Bakst
Ulysses Dove
Massine
19th Amendment
22. From its very beginning the ballet was entirely dependent upon this individual; it was his ballet - under the direct supervision and guidance of a court minister appointed by this individual and answerable to him
Ulysses Dove
Judson Church
Aureole - 1962
Tsar
23. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Louis Horst
Jeux - 1913
Leon Bakst
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
24. 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
Ballet Russes
Mary Wigman
Joffrey Ballet
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
25. 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
Pilobolus
Apollo - 1928
Deeply There - 1998
Africanist Aesthetic
26. 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
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Dr. Louis Vernon
Hanya Holm
Industrial Revolution
27. Sharp powerful movement; angle
Percussive Movement
Still/Here - 1994
Ballet Russes
Marie Taglioni
28. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Merce Cunningham
Jitterbug
Russian Revolution
Martha Graham
29. 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
Industrial Revolution
Franco-Prussian War
Imperial Russian Ballet
Tensile Involvement - 1953
30. Radically new or original
Gas-lighting and curtain
Avant-Garde
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Still/Here - 1994
31. Choreography Deeply There
Joe Goode
Imperial Russian Ballet
Nijinska
Eleo Pomare
32. Teacher in Merce's studio Who is remembered for creating a competitive environment filled w/ experimentation for new dance styles
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Robert Ellis Dunn
Agon - 1957
Joe Goode
33. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Ronald Brown
AIDS
Robert le Diable
Mary Wigman
34. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Aureole - 1962
Percussive Movement
Mary Wigman
Prince of Wales
35. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Cachucha
Bill T. Jones
The Dying Swan - 1905
Ballroom Dance
36. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Joffrey Ballet
Gas-lighting and curtain
Rudolph Nureyev
Pablo Picasso
37. 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
Robert le Diable
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Shirley Temple
38. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Prince of Wales
Lion King - 1998
Swan Lake - 1895
Savoy Ballroom
39. 1957 TV show (similar to the Corny Collins show from Hairspray) - Lindy Hop dance; segregated; eventually shut down due to refusal to fully integrate; presented black music and dance on TV
Buddy Dean Show
Ruth St. Denis
Bill T. Jones
Nicholas Brothers
40. 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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41. 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
Twyla Tharp
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Mary Wigman
Industrial Revolution
42. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Industrial Revolution
Tchaikovsky
HIV+
Suzanne Linglor
43. Ballet with music by Erik Satie and a one-act scenario by Jean Cocteau. The ballet was composed 1916-1917 for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The ballet premiered on Friday - May 18th - 1917 at the Thaa
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Parade - 1917
Dr. Louis Vernon
Arthur Saint Leon
44. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Jockey Club
Nijinska
Prince of Wales
Hanya Holm
45. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Schizophrenia
Donald McKayle
Lindy Hop
Choreographers who died of AIDS
46. (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
Marius Petipa
Margaret Sanger
Arthur Mitchell
Leon Bakst
47. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
Arthur Mitchell
Ted Shawn
George Balanchine
Nijinska
48. 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
The Nutcracker - 1892
Rudolph Laban
Shirley Temple
Swan Lake - 1895
49. 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
Theophile Gautier
Rudolph Laban
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Lion King - 1998
50. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Nijinska
Industrial Revolution
Ivanov
Stravinsky