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Dance History
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1. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Scheherezade
Hanya Holm
Acts of Light - 1981
Jockey Club
2. First book of choreography; published posthumously in 1959
The Art of Making Dances
Stravinsky
Ulysses Dove
Savoy Ballroom
3. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
The Nutcracker - 1892
Cachucha
Massine
Debussy
4. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Arthur Saint Leon
Grand Pas de Deux
Prince of Wales
Tap Dance
5. 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
Petipa Styles of Movement
Ronald Brown
Margaret Sanger
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
6. 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
Nijinsky
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Eleo Pomare
Dr. Louis Vernon
7. 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
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Gus Solomons Jr
Apollo - 1928
Ulysses Dove
8. 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
Katherine Dunham
HIV+
Pelvic contraction and release
9. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Scheherezade
Cleopatre -1909
Jules Perrot
Four Temperaments - 1946
10. 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
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Carlotta Grisi
Busby Berkeley
August Bournonville
11. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Ronald Brown
Divertissement
Busby Berkeley
12. 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
Gus Solomons Jr
Pilobolus
Ronald Brown
Agon - 1957
13. 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
Denishawn
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Ivanov
14. 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
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Parade - 1917
Busby Berkeley
Alwin Nikolais
15. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Les Sylphides
Loie Fuller
Jean Baptiste Lande
Ruby Keeler
16. 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
Massine
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Middle Class
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
17. 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
Savoy Ballroom
Denishawn
Four Temperaments - 1946
Aureole - 1962
18. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Jeux - 1913
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Coca Chanel
19. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Percussive Movement
Ulysses Dove
Judson Church
Jitterbug
20. Inspired by Gautier's novel The Story of the Mummy - very complicated - spectacular - successful ballet - Aspica is the daughter - English Lord in sand storm goes into tomb & gets put into an opium dream where he becomes Tahor and saves Aspico from a
Jules Perrot
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Tsar
Hip-hop
21. 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
Apollo - 1928
Robert le Diable
Joe Goode
22. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Giselle - 1841
Margaret Sanger
Fall and Recovery
Lincoln Kirstein
23. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Bill T. Jones
Arthur Mitchell
Marie Taglioni
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
24. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Robert Ellis Dunn
Marie Taglioni
Milhaud
25. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
George Balanchine
Avant-Garde
Franco-Prussian War
Anton Dolin
26. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Four Temperaments - 1946
Milhaud
Theophile Gautier
Acts of Light - 1981
27. (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
Nijinsky
Marius Petipa
Hanya Holm
Jean Coralli
28. 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.
Giselle - 1841
George Balanchine
Franco-Prussian War
Nijinsky
29. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Deeply There - 1998
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Margaret Sanger
Scheherezade
30. 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
19th Amendment
Lindy Hop
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Bill T. Jones
31. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Milhaud
Ballroom Dance
Gus Solomons Jr
Shirley Temple
32. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Gas-lighting and curtain
Fall and Recovery
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Pelvic contraction and release
33. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
Jeux - 1913
19th Amendment
Petrouchka - 1911
Dr. Louis Vernon
34. 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
Rudolph Nureyev
Paul Taylor
Foyer de la Danse
Savoy Ballroom
35. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
George Balanchine
Les Noces - 1923
Tensile Involvement - 1953
American Ballet Theater
36. 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
Isadora Duncan
Acts of Light - 1981
Dance Theater of Harlem
Ivanov
37. 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
Donald McKayle
Schizophrenia
Gus Solomons Jr
38. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Cachucha
Alwin Nikolais
Russian Revolution
Aureole - 1962
39. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Nijinska
Cachucha
New York City Ballet
The Nutcracker - 1892
40. 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
Ulysses Dove
Les Noces - 1923
Lincoln Kirstein
Parade - 1917
41. 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
Africanist Aesthetic
Savoy Ballroom
Rudolph Laban
Massine
42. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Milhaud
Twyla Tharp
Gas-lighting and curtain
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
43. 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
Philip Taglioni
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Merce Cunningham
44. 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
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Merce Cunningham
Cleopatre -1909
American Ballet Theater
45. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Cleopatre -1909
Giselle - 1841
Franco-Prussian War
Scheherezade
46. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Alwin Nikolais
Agon - 1957
Lion King - 1998
Busby Berkeley
47. Contemporary of Duncan's. Design orientation. Known for manipulation of costumes that would make flowing patterns and dance was non-emotional. Also did light design.
Carlotta Grisi
Massine
Loie Fuller
Gus Solomons Jr
48. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Bill T. Jones
Stravinsky
Suzanne Linglor
Choreographers who died of AIDS
49. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Aureole - 1962
Robert le Diable
Martha Graham
Rose Adagio
50. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
Jitterbug
Fall and Recovery
The Nutcracker - 1892
Charles Weidman