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1. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
New York City Ballet
Rite of Spring - 1913
Alwin Nikolais
Franco-Prussian War
2. 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
Duet - 1957
Paul Taylor
Donald McKayle
Petipa Styles of Movement
3. 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
Debussy
American Ballet Theater
New York City Ballet
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
4. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Grand Pas de Deux
Busby Berkeley
Imperial Russian Ballet
Percussive Movement
5. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
The Dying Swan - 1905
Shirley Temple
Bill T. Jones
Ulysses Dove
6. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Eleo Pomare
Tsar
Jules Perrot
7. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Aureole - 1962
Industrial Revolution
Hip-hop
Talley Beatty
8. 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
Louis Horst
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Stravinsky
Tap Dance
9. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Aureole - 1962
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Milhaud
Savoy Ballroom
10. (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
Grand Pas de Deux
Twyla Tharp
Giselle - 1841
11. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Political Asylum
Les Noces - 1923
Merce Cunningham
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
12. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Donald McKayle
Rudolph Nureyev
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Four Temperaments - 1946
13. 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
Garth Fagan
Divertissement
Suzanne Linglor
Tensile Involvement - 1953
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
Tap Dance
Parade - 1917
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Jockey Club
15. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Fanny Elssler
Ted Shawn
Ballet Russes
Petrouchka - 1911
16. 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
Judson Church
Ruth St. Denis
Bill T. Jones
Charles Weidman
17. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Dance Theater of Harlem
Alwin Nikolais
Doris Humphrey
Scheherezade
18. 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
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Arthur Mitchell
Lincoln Kirstein
Jean Jacques Rousseau
19. 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
Cleopatre -1909
Gas-lighting and curtain
Eleo Pomare
John Cage
20. 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 Joffrey
Industrial Revolution
Franco-Prussian War
Ballet Russes
21. 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
Schizophrenia
Ronald Brown
Isadora Duncan
Gas-lighting and curtain
22. 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
Arthur Saint Leon
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Cleopatre -1909
23. By Martha Graham - focuses on technique - used technique as her own language - inspired by when she moved to Santa Barbara as a child - choneo - straight out of technique class - running on the cliffs of Santa Barbara and the development of her techn
Acts of Light - 1981
Ballet Russes
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Ted Shawn
24. 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
Marius Petipa
Talley Beatty
Deeply There - 1998
Cleopatre -1909
25. Comedy - has sport movements - about a train taken to the beach where a plane flies over - spoof about Frenchman who wants to be very shallow American
Garth Fagan
Robert Ellis Dunn
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Talley Beatty
26. 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
Scheherezade
American Ballet Theater
Ivanov
Charles Weidman
27. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
Fanny Elssler
Buddy Dean Show
HIV+
Rudolph Nureyev
28. Teacher in Merce's studio Who is remembered for creating a competitive environment filled w/ experimentation for new dance styles
Nicholas Brothers
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Robert Ellis Dunn
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
29. Petipa & Tchaikovsky - was not successful at the time it came out - no trace of sensible dramatic action
The Nutcracker - 1892
Foyer de la Danse
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Jockey Club
30. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Robert Joffrey
Swan Lake - 1895
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Fanny Elssler
31. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Russian Revolution
Petipa Styles of Movement
Charles Weidman
32. 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
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Apollo - 1928
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Imperial Russian Ballet
33. 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
Marius Petipa
Parade - 1917
Fall and Recovery
34. 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
19th Amendment
Margaret Sanger
Rudolph Laban
Fanny Elssler
35. (1819-1899) -Italian ballerina -Leading role in Giselle -Combined techniques of Taglioni & Elssler -Known for strength & lightness
Katherine Dunham
Martha Graham
Carlotta Grisi
Debussy
36. 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
Ruth St. Denis
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Nijinska
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
37. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Harlem
Massine
La Sylphide - 1832
Garth Fagan
38. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
Lion King - 1998
Deeply There - 1998
19th Amendment
Imperial Russian Ballet
39. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Cleopatre -1909
Alwin Nikolais
Bill T. Jones
Ruby Keeler
40. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Coca Chanel
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Margaret Sanger
Diaghilev
41. 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
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Philip Taglioni
Arthur Saint Leon
Swan Lake - 1895
42. 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.
Joffrey Ballet
Rudolph Nureyev
Savoy Ballroom
Shirley Temple
43. 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
Rudolph Laban
Donald McKayle
Romantic Era
Coca Chanel
44. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Scheherezade
Louis Horst
Lindy Hop
Jose Limon
45. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Fokine
Philip Taglioni
Duet - 1957
Swan Lake - 1895
46. 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)
Nicholas Brothers
Stravinsky
Marius Petipa
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
47. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Robert le Diable
Giselle - 1841
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Joffrey Ballet
48. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Massine
Lindy Hop
Jules Perrot
Les Noces - 1923
49. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Jockey Club
Imperial Russian Ballet
The Dying Swan - 1905
Russian Revolution
50. (1931-1989) A New York City dancer who created an American Dance Theater which trains dancers and performs worldwide; most famous work was Revelations and piece named Cry - in honor of his mother; lost battle to AIDS in 1989
Fall and Recovery
Denishawn
Alvin Ailey
Savoy Ballroom