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Dance History
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1. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Donald McKayle
Ivanov
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Arthur Saint Leon
2. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Les Sylphides
The Art of Making Dances
Judson Church
Massine
3. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Coppelia
Jose Limon
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
4. Different names but same theater under different political influences
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Africanist Aesthetic
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Ballet Russes
5. 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)
Alvin Ailey
Nicholas Brothers
Debussy
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
6. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Loie Fuller
American Ballet Theater
Rose Adagio
Arthur Mitchell
7. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Fanny Elssler
Rite of Spring - 1913
Marie Taglioni
Judson Church
8. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Tap Dance
Political Asylum
Loie Fuller
Dance Theater of Harlem
9. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Lion King - 1998
Carlotta Grisi
Gas-lighting and curtain
The Art of Making Dances
10. 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
Nijinsky
The Dying Swan - 1905
Eleo Pomare
Ruby Keeler
11. 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
Shirley Temple
Anton Dolin
Aureole - 1962
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
12. 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
Busby Berkeley
Rudolph Laban
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Coppelia
13. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Robert Joffrey
Coppelia
Suzanne Linglor
Divertissement
14. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Les Noces - 1923
August Bournonville
Paul Taylor
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
15. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Alvin Ailey
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Tsar
16. 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
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Petrouchka - 1911
Debussy
Scheherezade
17. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Deeply There - 1998
Margaret Sanger
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Shirley Temple
18. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Theophile Gautier
La Sylphide - 1832
Eleo Pomare
Ballroom Dance
19. 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
Les Sylphides
Franco-Prussian War
Katherine Dunham
Tensile Involvement - 1953
20. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
Political Asylum
Ulysses Dove
Jean Baptiste Lande
Coca Chanel
21. Works to question the complexities of real life
Ballroom Dance
John Cage
Postmodern Dance
Jean Coralli
22. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Political Asylum
Carlotta Grisi
Jules Perrot
Divertissement
23. 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
Gus Solomons Jr
Jean Coralli
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Tchaikovsky
24. 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
John Cage
Harlem
Denishawn
Robert Ellis Dunn
25. 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
Harlem
Prince of Wales
Avant-Garde
American Ballet Theater
26. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Schizophrenia
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Philip Taglioni
27. 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
Philip Taglioni
Margaret Sanger
Lion King - 1998
Donald McKayle
28. 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
Lion King - 1998
Joffrey Ballet
Robert Ellis Dunn
Rudolph Nureyev
29. 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
New York City Ballet
Marie Taglioni
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Schizophrenia
30. 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
Apollo - 1928
La Sylphide - 1832
The Nutcracker - 1892
Eleo Pomare
31. 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
Deeply There - 1998
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Stravinsky
Talley Beatty
32. 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
Lincoln Kirstein
Fanny Elssler
HIV+
Gus Solomons Jr
33. Designer. Influenced by Greek and Asian art. Costumes and sets full of bold colors. Decorative motifs that employed perspective painting. Successful with ballet. 'sophisticated eclecticism'. Teacher.
Katherine Dunham
Franco-Prussian War
Leon Bakst
Political Asylum
34. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Lindy Hop
Jitterbug
Petrouchka - 1911
Ruth St. Denis
35. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
John Cage
Coppelia
Pelvic contraction and release
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
36. 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
The Nutcracker - 1892
Hanya Holm
Debussy
Jean Jacques Rousseau
37. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
The Nutcracker - 1892
Diaghilev
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Coppelia
38. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Fall and Recovery
Still/Here - 1994
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
39. 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
Mary Wigman
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Percussive Movement
Four Temperaments - 1946
40. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Cleopatre -1909
Robert Ellis Dunn
Africanist Aesthetic
Grand Pas de Deux
41. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Nijinska
Massine
Duet - 1957
Petrouchka - 1911
42. 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
Postmodern Dance
Middle Class
19th Amendment
Lincoln Kirstein
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.
Jean Baptiste Lande
Jeux - 1913
Ulysses Dove
Franco-Prussian War
44. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Postmodern Dance
Pilobolus
Fokine
Carlotta Grisi
45. 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
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Ruth St. Denis
Dr. Louis Vernon
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
46. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Debussy
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Aureole - 1962
Pilobolus
47. 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
Carlotta Grisi
Divertissement
Apollo - 1928
Acts of Light - 1981
48. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Jeux - 1913
Marius Petipa
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Joffrey Ballet
49. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Robert Ellis Dunn
Theophile Gautier
Robert le Diable
Ruby Keeler
50. Broke color barrier - developed stair dance - danced with Shirley Temple - made 'honorary mayor of Harlem' -
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