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Dance History
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1. A ballet company established in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev. It created a sensation in Western Europe because of the great vitality of Russian ballet compared to French dance. The Ballets Russes became one of the most influential b
Ballet Russes
Cleopatre -1909
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Le Train Bleu - 1924
2. Famous for her incredible technique - lightness - and ethereal presence -(1804-1884) -Introduced new costume design (bare neck/shoulders - tutu) -Perfected dancing en pointe -La Sylphide`
Katherine Dunham
Robert Ellis Dunn
American Ballet Theater
Marie Taglioni
3. Broke color barrier - developed stair dance - danced with Shirley Temple - made 'honorary mayor of Harlem' -
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4. 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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5. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Cleopatre -1909
George Balanchine
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
6. 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
The Nutcracker - 1892
Jose Limon
Pablo Picasso
Tap Dance
7. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Anton Dolin
Margaret Sanger
Alwin Nikolais
Cachucha
8. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Ulysses Dove
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Lion King - 1998
Suzanne Linglor
9. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Prince of Wales
Jules Perrot
Tchaikovsky
Les Noces - 1923
10. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Pilobolus
Judson Church
New York City Ballet
Nijinska
11. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Cachucha
Russian Revolution
Judson Church
Rose Adagio
12. Beginning of modern dance - danced with bare feet - wore flowing Greek-style robe - died being strangled from a long-flowing scarf caught in a car wheel
Isadora Duncan
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Ulysses Dove
Alvin Ailey
13. 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
Hanya Holm
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Les Sylphides
Jean Jacques Rousseau
14. 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
Le Train Bleu - 1924
The Art of Making Dances
Schizophrenia
Aureole - 1962
15. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Garth Fagan
Rudolph Nureyev
Lion King - 1998
Dance Theater of Harlem
16. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
August Bournonville
Industrial Revolution
Postmodern Dance
Hip-hop
17. 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
Four Temperaments - 1946
Rudolph Laban
Dr. Louis Vernon
Ballet Russes
18. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Russian Revolution
La Sylphide - 1832
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Prince of Wales
19. 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
Divertissement
Buddy Dean Show
Four Temperaments - 1946
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
20. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
Jose Limon
Petrouchka - 1911
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Gus Solomons Jr
21. Radically new or original
Rite of Spring - 1913
Carlotta Grisi
Hip-hop
Avant-Garde
22. 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
Arthur Mitchell
Aureole - 1962
Divertissement
American Ballet Theater
23. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Industrial Revolution
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Jean Baptiste Lande
24. Teacher in Merce's studio Who is remembered for creating a competitive environment filled w/ experimentation for new dance styles
Arthur Saint Leon
Petipa Styles of Movement
Robert Ellis Dunn
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
25. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Harlem
Nijinsky
New York City Ballet
Tap Dance
26. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Anna Pavlova
Postmodern Dance
Robert Joffrey
Jules Perrot
27. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Mary Wigman
Ballet Russes
Prince of Wales
Ulysses Dove
28. 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.
Philip Taglioni
The Dying Swan - 1905
Harlem
Charles Didelot
29. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Coca Chanel
Philip Taglioni
Jean Coralli
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
30. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
Cachucha
Charles Weidman
Choreographers who died of AIDS
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
31. 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
Busby Berkeley
Ruby Keeler
Buddy Dean Show
Debussy
32. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Deeply There - 1998
Savoy Ballroom
John Cage
Doris Humphrey
33. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Stravinsky
Suzanne Linglor
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Industrial Revolution
34. Choreography Deeply There
Joe Goode
Pilobolus
Rudolph Laban
Ulysses Dove
35. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Lindy Hop
Mikhail Baryshnikov
August Bournonville
Avant-Garde
36. 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
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Busby Berkeley
Avant-Garde
37. 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
Paul Taylor
Talley Beatty
Fokine
La Sylphide - 1832
38. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Lindy Hop
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Acts of Light - 1981
Coca Chanel
39. 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.)
Imperial Russian Ballet
Lindy Hop
Acts of Light - 1981
Anna Pavlova
40. 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
Joffrey Ballet
Jose Limon
Savoy Ballroom
Ivanov
41. 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
Parade - 1917
Grand Pas de Deux
Swan Lake - 1895
The Nutcracker - 1892
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
Coca Chanel
Lindy Hop
Gus Solomons Jr
Marius Petipa
43. 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
Deeply There - 1998
Jeux - 1913
Nijinsky
Busby Berkeley
44. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Suzanne Linglor
Diaghilev
Denishawn
Arthur Saint Leon
45. 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
Carlotta Grisi
Rudolph Nureyev
Debussy
46. 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
Margaret Sanger
Jean Coralli
19th Amendment
Martha Graham
47. 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
Africanist Aesthetic
Jean Coralli
Cleopatre -1909
D-Man in the Water - 1989
48. 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
Arthur Saint Leon
Joffrey Ballet
Ruth St. Denis
Avant-Garde
49. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Aureole - 1962
Shirley Temple
50. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Talley Beatty
American Ballet Theater
Parade - 1917
Scheherezade