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Dance History
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1. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Cachucha
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Robert Ellis Dunn
Margaret Sanger
2. 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
Alwin Nikolais
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
3. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Pilobolus
Rose Adagio
Aureole - 1962
Marie Taglioni
4. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Imperial Russian Ballet
Nicholas Brothers
August Bournonville
5. 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
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Isadora Duncan
Merce Cunningham
6. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Ruth St. Denis
Robert Joffrey
Suzanne Linglor
Jules Perrot
7. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Paul Taylor
Joe Goode
Cachucha
Africanist Aesthetic
8. Born in NY - raised in Boston - first exposure to dance in 1920 - witness Diaghilev funeral - worked with Balanchine - established NYC ballet - passion for Japenese culture
Lincoln Kirstein
Imperial Russian Ballet
Petipa Styles of Movement
Deeply There - 1998
9. 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.)
Jockey Club
Debussy
Anna Pavlova
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
10. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Talley Beatty
Stravinsky
Grand Pas de Deux
Aureole - 1962
11. Radically new or original
Judson Church
Lindy Hop
Avant-Garde
Katherine Dunham
12. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Robert Ellis Dunn
Denishawn
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Coppelia
13. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Rite of Spring - 1913
Scheherezade
Prince of Wales
14. 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
Ballroom Dance
August Bournonville
Imperial Russian Ballet
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
15. 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
Busby Berkeley
Ruth St. Denis
Ivanov
Rudolph Laban
16. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
New York City Ballet
Martha Graham
Lion King - 1998
Industrial Revolution
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
Industrial Revolution
Jean Baptiste Lande
Robert Ellis Dunn
Romantic Era
18. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Pablo Picasso
19th Amendment
Theophile Gautier
Acts of Light - 1981
19. 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
Percussive Movement
Massine
Suzanne Linglor
20. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Rudolph Nureyev
Acts of Light - 1981
Duet - 1957
Nijinska
21. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Middle Class
Robert le Diable
Pelvic contraction and release
Industrial Revolution
22. 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
Fokine
Charles Weidman
Carlotta Grisi
Ruth St. Denis
23. 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
Joffrey Ballet
Ruby Keeler
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Art of Making Dances
24. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
The Dying Swan - 1905
Petrouchka - 1911
Grand Pas de Deux
Robert le Diable
25. 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
Petipa Styles of Movement
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Hanya Holm
26. 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
Dance Theater of Harlem
Parade - 1917
Talley Beatty
Charles Didelot
27. 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
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Merce Cunningham
Pelvic contraction and release
Busby Berkeley
28. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Political Asylum
Fokine
D-Man in the Water - 1989
George Balanchine
29. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Ballet Russes
Aureole - 1962
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Rite of Spring - 1913
30. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Ruby Keeler
Buddy Dean Show
Petipa Styles of Movement
Imperial Russian Ballet
31. 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
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Tsar
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
32. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Joe Goode
Jean Baptiste Lande
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Petipa Styles of Movement
33. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Lion King - 1998
Jitterbug
Rudolph Laban
Judson Church
34. 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
Massine
Tsar
Alwin Nikolais
Choreographers who died of AIDS
35. 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
Lion King - 1998
Parade - 1917
19th Amendment
Margaret Sanger
36. Was listed as the choreographer because He was widely respected - was known Perrot (more gifted) was collaborating with him; Choreographed the corps for Giselle
Jean Coralli
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Pablo Picasso
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
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)
Tchaikovsky
Dr. Louis Vernon
Doris Humphrey
Agon - 1957
38. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Ted Shawn
The Dying Swan - 1905
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
39. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Percussive Movement
Bill T. Jones
August Bournonville
Suzanne Linglor
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. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Jean Baptiste Lande
Divertissement
Fall and Recovery
Philip Taglioni
42. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Prince of Wales
Bill T. Jones
La Sylphide - 1832
43. 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 Ellis Dunn
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Franco-Prussian War
Tap Dance
44. 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.
Ted Shawn
Lindy Hop
Shirley Temple
Divertissement
45. Choreography Deeply There
Buddy Dean Show
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Hanya Holm
Joe Goode
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)
Loie Fuller
Nijinsky
Russian Revolution
Nicholas Brothers
47. 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
Les Noces - 1923
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake - 1895
48. 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
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Ted Shawn
Paul Taylor
Petrouchka - 1911
49. 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
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Ruby Keeler
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
50. Taglioni's rival -Her dancing was 'warm and passionate' -Dance was earthy - temperamental - fiery - vuluptuous -Labeled Pagan -Danced folk dances - most famous was Cachucha - Spanish using castanet - twists and turns; Known for her flair and theatric
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Cleopatre -1909
Avant-Garde
Fanny Elssler