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Dance History
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1. Works to question the complexities of real life
Nicholas Brothers
Robert le Diable
Pelvic contraction and release
Postmodern Dance
2. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
The Dying Swan - 1905
Deeply There - 1998
Still/Here - 1994
Jose Limon
3. Arthur Mitchell founder and artistic director -1st black dancer to break color barrier for classical ballet -America's 1st outstanding ballet company of black dancers -started school with Karel Shook -shaped by Balanchine -Dancers known for warmth an
Hip-hop
Dance Theater of Harlem
Dr. Louis Vernon
Charles Didelot
4. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Nijinsky
HIV+
Lindy Hop
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
5. 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
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Les Sylphides
Mary Wigman
Loie Fuller
6. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Marius Petipa
Duet - 1957
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Scheherezade
7. 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
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Robert Ellis Dunn
Pablo Picasso
Swan Lake - 1895
8. HIV - choreographed Still Here - organized survivor workshops
Lindy Hop
Isadora Duncan
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Bill T. Jones
9. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Swan Lake - 1895
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Nijinsky
Nijinska
10. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Donald McKayle
Les Noces - 1923
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Talley Beatty
11. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
Isadora Duncan
New York City Ballet
Buddy Dean Show
John Cage
12. 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
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Ulysses Dove
19th Amendment
13. 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
Aureole - 1962
Ulysses Dove
Lincoln Kirstein
Jitterbug
14. 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.)
Les Sylphides
Anna Pavlova
Lincoln Kirstein
Fanny Elssler
15. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
Imperial Russian Ballet
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Twyla Tharp
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
16. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Philip Taglioni
Ballroom Dance
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Grand Pas de Deux
17. 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
Jean Baptiste Lande
Anton Dolin
Shirley Temple
18. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
Avant-Garde
HIV+
Arthur Mitchell
Gas-lighting and curtain
19. French composer; uses harmony to reinforce stasis; Prelude to Afternoon of a Fawn (half man - half goat - simulated masturbation); concert work that became a ballet
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Rudolph Nureyev
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Debussy
20. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
Marie Taglioni
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Lindy Hop
George Balanchine
21. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Pelvic contraction and release
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Jules Perrot
Paul Taylor
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
Postmodern Dance
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Percussive Movement
23. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
The Dying Swan - 1905
Anton Dolin
Cachucha
Judson Church
24. 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
Charles Didelot
Coca Chanel
Judson Church
Busby Berkeley
25. 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`
The Art of Making Dances
Still/Here - 1994
Doris Humphrey
Marie Taglioni
26. 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
Deeply There - 1998
Lincoln Kirstein
Arthur Saint Leon
Margaret Sanger
27. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Gus Solomons Jr
Jitterbug
Rite of Spring - 1913
28. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Political Asylum
HIV+
Russian Revolution
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
29. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Petipa Styles of Movement
Ronald Brown
Anton Dolin
30. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
The Art of Making Dances
Fanny Elssler
Shirley Temple
Louis Horst
31. Created the well-known Denishawn school with his wife Ruth St. Denis. They taught dancers diverse styles - With his wife they set up the foundations for the principal of Musical Visualization 'a concept that called for movement equivalents to the tim
Four Temperaments - 1946
Jose Limon
Ted Shawn
Africanist Aesthetic
32. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Marius Petipa
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Grand Pas de Deux
Debussy
33. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Massine
Gus Solomons Jr
Petrouchka - 1911
Middle Class
34. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Charles Weidman
Apollo - 1928
Cleopatre -1909
Shirley Temple
35. 1937 Founded by Ballet Russe's Mikhail Mordkin as Mordkin Ballet- Repertory company- features choreography of many artists such as Adolph Bolm - Michel Fokine - Leonide Massine - Bronislava Jijinska - Balanchine and Agnes de Mille
Pablo Picasso
Jules Perrot
Nijinska
American Ballet Theater
36. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Aureole - 1962
Coca Chanel
Acts of Light - 1981
Les Sylphides
37. First book of choreography; published posthumously in 1959
The Art of Making Dances
Stravinsky
Dance Theater of Harlem
John Cage
38. 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
Paul Taylor
Arthur Saint Leon
Russian Revolution
39. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
Industrial Revolution
Fokine
Alwin Nikolais
Agon - 1957
40. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Pablo Picasso
Shirley Temple
Parade - 1917
Theophile Gautier
41. Height of Romantic Ballet - Star: Carlotta Grisi - Choreographer: Jules Perrot (Carlotta's lover) & Jean Coralli - Written by: Gautier (Who was in love with Grisi) - Act I (sunlit) - Act II (moonlit)
Giselle - 1841
Rite of Spring - 1913
New York City Ballet
Tensile Involvement - 1953
42. 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.
Charles Didelot
Franco-Prussian War
Stravinsky
Pelvic contraction and release
43. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Garth Fagan
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Jean Baptiste Lande
44. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Donald McKayle
Judson Church
Jules Perrot
Suzanne Linglor
45. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Tap Dance
Isadora Duncan
Pelvic contraction and release
Prince of Wales
46. One of the artistic giants of the twentieth century. Helped found the Cubist and Abstract movements. During his life - 1881-1973 - he worked in various media and is noted for scores of important works. His painting Guernica is one of the most powerfu
Aureole - 1962
Lion King - 1998
Philip Taglioni
Pablo Picasso
47. Broke color barrier - developed stair dance - danced with Shirley Temple - made 'honorary mayor of Harlem' -
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48. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
Ulysses Dove
Arthur Saint Leon
Coppelia
Jean Jacques Rousseau
49. 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
Industrial Revolution
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Political Asylum
Ruby Keeler
50. 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
Industrial Revolution
Ivanov
Schizophrenia
Judson Church