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Dance History
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1. Reform Russian Ballet - choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova (2 minutes long) - accused of being influenced by Isadora Duncan - teacher & choreographer rather than a refined dancer
Rite of Spring - 1913
Margaret Sanger
Diaghilev
Fokine
2. 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.
Robert le Diable
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Franco-Prussian War
Dance Theater of Harlem
3. 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
Pelvic contraction and release
Debussy
Donald McKayle
Swan Lake - 1895
4. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Hanya Holm
Foyer de la Danse
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Gus Solomons Jr
5. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Robert le Diable
Rudolph Nureyev
Tsar
Twyla Tharp
6. Marius Petipa - 4 fairies for Aurora - did not invite the evil fairy - put a spell on Aurora @ 16 she would prick her finger on a spindle & fall asleep for 100 years - End of Act I pricks her finger - Act III is the wedding (divertissement - Grand Pa
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Petipa Styles of Movement
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Ted Shawn
7. 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
Giselle - 1841
Savoy Ballroom
Tsar
Robert le Diable
8. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Philip Taglioni
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Shirley Temple
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
9. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Talley Beatty
Still/Here - 1994
Louis Horst
Coppelia
10. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Mary Wigman
Duet - 1957
Lion King - 1998
Arthur Mitchell
11. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Deeply There - 1998
Divertissement
Robert Ellis Dunn
Percussive Movement
12. 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
Loie Fuller
Martha Graham
Busby Berkeley
13. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Margaret Sanger
Gus Solomons Jr
Agon - 1957
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
14. 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.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Garth Fagan
Foyer de la Danse
Pablo Picasso
15. Predominately black - but whites attended - social dances were done - had to change the floor every three years because of the intense dancing - many whites went to go watch Black People Dance
Nijinska
Fokine
Savoy Ballroom
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
16. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Parade - 1917
Jitterbug
Tap Dance
Theophile Gautier
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
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Theophile Gautier
Joffrey Ballet
Jean Baptiste Lande
18. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Les Noces - 1923
Paul Taylor
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Judson Church
19. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Katherine Dunham
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Anna Pavlova
20. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Lindy Hop
19th Amendment
21. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Scheherezade
Fanny Elssler
Leon Bakst
Jeux - 1913
22. 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
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Robert Ellis Dunn
Milhaud
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
23. 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
Talley Beatty
Apollo - 1928
Les Noces - 1923
Rite of Spring - 1913
24. Workers who earned enough money to be able to become consumer of art and material goods following the Industrial Revolution; escapism became a huge hit when the Depression hit to escape harsh reality
The Nutcracker - 1892
Middle Class
Alvin Ailey
Four Temperaments - 1946
25. 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
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Ruth St. Denis
Busby Berkeley
Jean Coralli
26. 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
Jockey Club
Franco-Prussian War
Suzanne Linglor
27. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Romantic Era
Twyla Tharp
The Nutcracker - 1892
Industrial Revolution
28. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Joe Goode
Pablo Picasso
Acts of Light - 1981
Jockey Club
29. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Dr. Louis Vernon
Robert Joffrey
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Pelvic contraction and release
30. 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
Ruth St. Denis
Talley Beatty
Grand Pas de Deux
Stravinsky
31. 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
Bill T. Jones
Aureole - 1962
Paul Taylor
Middle Class
32. American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City - she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the
Dr. Louis Vernon
American Ballet Theater
Scheherezade
Margaret Sanger
33. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Robert Ellis Dunn
Ballet Russes
Africanist Aesthetic
Gus Solomons Jr
34. 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
Loie Fuller
Scheherezade
Arthur Mitchell
Merce Cunningham
35. Teacher in Merce's studio Who is remembered for creating a competitive environment filled w/ experimentation for new dance styles
Dance Theater of Harlem
Robert Ellis Dunn
Avant-Garde
HIV+
36. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Imperial Russian Ballet
Judson Church
Duet - 1957
The Dying Swan - 1905
37. 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)
Doris Humphrey
Anton Dolin
Pilobolus
Avant-Garde
38. A signature piece of Taylor's in which he and his pianist remain motionless for the duration of the music-less score by John Cage.
Postmodern Dance
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Duet - 1957
Divertissement
39. 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
The Nutcracker - 1892
Charles Didelot
Petipa Styles of Movement
Hanya Holm
40. 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
Scheherezade
Ruth St. Denis
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Ronald Brown
41. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
AIDS
Jeux - 1913
HIV+
Pelvic contraction and release
42. 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
Romantic Era
Marie Taglioni
Gus Solomons Jr
Jean Coralli
43. 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
Nijinsky
Political Asylum
George Balanchine
44. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Donald McKayle
Jules Perrot
Martha Graham
New York City Ballet
45. 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
Ulysses Dove
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Robert Joffrey
Scheherezade
46. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Buddy Dean Show
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Ronald Brown
August Bournonville
47. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Donald McKayle
Mary Wigman
Nijinska
Percussive Movement
48. 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
Nijinsky
New York City Ballet
George Balanchine
American Ballet Theater
49. Music that combines spoken street dialect with cuts (samples) from older records and bears the influences of social politics - male boasting - and comic lyrics carried forward from blues - R&b - soul and rock and roll
Hip-hop
Coca Chanel
Four Temperaments - 1946
Hanya Holm
50. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Nijinska
Africanist Aesthetic
Carlotta Grisi
Massine