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Dance History
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1. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Jules Perrot
Fall and Recovery
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
2. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Loie Fuller
Diaghilev
Grand Pas de Deux
Merce Cunningham
3. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Doris Humphrey
Cachucha
Parade - 1917
4. 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
Louis Horst
Hanya Holm
Cleopatre -1909
5. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Eleo Pomare
Daughter of the Pharaoh
New York City Ballet
Arthur Mitchell
6. Different names but same theater under different political influences
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Talley Beatty
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
7. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Pilobolus
Nijinska
Russian Revolution
Ronald Brown
8. Works to question the complexities of real life
Hip-hop
Postmodern Dance
Merce Cunningham
Agon - 1957
9. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Les Noces - 1923
Carlotta Grisi
The Dying Swan - 1905
10. Broke color barrier - developed stair dance - danced with Shirley Temple - made 'honorary mayor of Harlem' -
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11. 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
The Dying Swan - 1905
Schizophrenia
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Lincoln Kirstein
12. 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
Duet - 1957
Tap Dance
New York City Ballet
Pilobolus
13. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Katherine Dunham
Aureole - 1962
Cleopatre -1909
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
Parade - 1917
Denishawn
Fall and Recovery
Pablo Picasso
15. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Lindy Hop
Black Swan Pas de Deux
The Nutcracker - 1892
Imperial Russian Ballet
16. 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
Jean Baptiste Lande
Buddy Dean Show
Savoy Ballroom
Philip Taglioni
17. 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.
Avant-Garde
Shirley Temple
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
18. 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
La Sylphide - 1832
Lincoln Kirstein
Four Temperaments - 1946
Marie Taglioni
19. St. Denis and Ted Shawn's company that helps spread the gospel of dance from the constraints of ballet - opened a school in Los Angeles - brought dance to the middle class by supporting good health and virginal spirituality
19th Amendment
Fanny Elssler
Denishawn
Russian Revolution
20. A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
Anton Dolin
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
AIDS
Robert Joffrey
21. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Percussive Movement
Coppelia
Ivanov
Jean Jacques Rousseau
22. 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
Anton Dolin
Swan Lake - 1895
Daughter of the Pharaoh
23. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Jean Baptiste Lande
Shirley Temple
Nijinska
Political Asylum
24. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Grand Pas de Deux
Milhaud
Still/Here - 1994
John Cage
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
Arthur Mitchell
Deeply There - 1998
La Sylphide - 1832
Schizophrenia
26. 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
American Ballet Theater
Romantic Era
Four Temperaments - 1946
Nijinsky
27. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Africanist Aesthetic
Romantic Era
Ballroom Dance
28. 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
Ruth St. Denis
Imperial Russian Ballet
19th Amendment
Nicholas Brothers
29. 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`
Four Temperaments - 1946
The Nutcracker - 1892
Marie Taglioni
Anton Dolin
30. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Judson Church
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Tap Dance
Les Sylphides
31. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Nijinsky
Jean Coralli
Les Noces - 1923
32. 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
Ulysses Dove
Ballet Russes
Talley Beatty
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
33. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Judson Church
Suzanne Linglor
Africanist Aesthetic
34. 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
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Jean Coralli
Nijinsky
35. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
Lion King - 1998
Marius Petipa
Africanist Aesthetic
Alwin Nikolais
36. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Nijinska
Giselle - 1841
Milhaud
37. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
Paul Taylor
Ivanov
Gas-lighting and curtain
Pelvic contraction and release
38. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Rudolph Laban
Robert le Diable
Parade - 1917
Lion King - 1998
39. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
George Balanchine
Garth Fagan
Rite of Spring - 1913
Russian Revolution
40. Choreographer of Parade & Three-Cornered hat - known for symphonic ballet - comedy satire - character dancing - and color
Charles Didelot
Carlotta Grisi
Massine
Loie Fuller
41. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Pablo Picasso
Political Asylum
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Alwin Nikolais
42. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Theophile Gautier
Margaret Sanger
Rudolph Nureyev
Tchaikovsky
43. 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
Postmodern Dance
Aureole - 1962
Foyer de la Danse
Jean Jacques Rousseau
44. 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
Rudolph Laban
The Nutcracker - 1892
Middle Class
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
45. 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
Denishawn
Schizophrenia
Anna Pavlova
Tsar
46. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
Ruth St. Denis
Les Sylphides
Petipa Styles of Movement
HIV+
47. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Cleopatre -1909
Prince of Wales
Charles Didelot
Divertissement
48. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Loie Fuller
Debussy
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
49. Choreography Deeply There
Joe Goode
Joffrey Ballet
Ulysses Dove
Eleo Pomare
50. 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
Nijinska
Merce Cunningham
Buddy Dean Show
Milhaud