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Dance History
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1. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Les Noces - 1923
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
John Cage
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
2. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Gus Solomons Jr
Robert Ellis Dunn
Divertissement
Pablo Picasso
3. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
Jean Baptiste Lande
Denishawn
Katherine Dunham
19th Amendment
4. In charge of new Paris Opera; under his direction - Paris Opera made a profit for the only time in its existence; slashed salaries of ballerinas to force them into mistresshood for fellow Jockey's
Leon Bakst
La Sylphide - 1832
Dr. Louis Vernon
Fall and Recovery
5. 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
Gus Solomons Jr
Marie Taglioni
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Ballet Russes
6. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Parade - 1917
Ballroom Dance
Stravinsky
Middle Class
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
Jockey Club
Acts of Light - 1981
Ted Shawn
Swan Lake - 1895
8. 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
Charles Didelot
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Prince of Wales
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
9. HIV - choreographed Still Here - organized survivor workshops
Cleopatre -1909
George Balanchine
Margaret Sanger
Bill T. Jones
10. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Grand Pas de Deux
Avant-Garde
American Ballet Theater
11. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Milhaud
Tsar
Deeply There - 1998
Pilobolus
12. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
Jules Perrot
Nijinsky
Alwin Nikolais
Jean Jacques Rousseau
13. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Rudolph Nureyev
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Arthur Saint Leon
Percussive Movement
14. 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
Merce Cunningham
Apollo - 1928
Loie Fuller
Buddy Dean Show
15. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Twyla Tharp
Jean Baptiste Lande
Marie Taglioni
16. 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
Stravinsky
Ruby Keeler
Rudolph Laban
D-Man in the Water - 1989
17. 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
Middle Class
Ted Shawn
19th Amendment
Industrial Revolution
18. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Jeux - 1913
Parade - 1917
Divertissement
Isadora Duncan
19. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
New York City Ballet
Anton Dolin
Talley Beatty
Choreographers who died of AIDS
20. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Judson Church
John Cage
Ted Shawn
Fokine
21. 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
Louis Horst
American Ballet Theater
Nicholas Brothers
22. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Coppelia
Eleo Pomare
Paul Taylor
Cleopatre -1909
23. Choreography Deeply There
Grand Pas de Deux
Joe Goode
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Jules Perrot
24. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Bill T. Jones
19th Amendment
Acts of Light - 1981
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
25. Radically new or original
Avant-Garde
Imperial Russian Ballet
Louis Horst
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
26. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Petrouchka - 1911
HIV+
Four Temperaments - 1946
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
27. 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
Franco-Prussian War
Dance Theater of Harlem
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
28. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Schizophrenia
Jockey Club
Rudolph Laban
Bill T. Jones
29. 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
Judson Church
Ballet Russes
Nijinska
Still/Here - 1994
30. 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
Suzanne Linglor
Agon - 1957
Nijinsky
Joffrey Ballet
31. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Arthur Mitchell
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Coca Chanel
Joffrey Ballet
32. 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
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
August Bournonville
Loie Fuller
33. 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
Ballroom Dance
Schizophrenia
American Ballet Theater
Katherine Dunham
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
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Jeux - 1913
Savoy Ballroom
Political Asylum
35. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Fanny Elssler
Petipa Styles of Movement
Leon Bakst
Ivanov
36. By Martha Graham - focuses on technique - used technique as her own language - inspired by when she moved to Santa Barbara as a child - choneo - straight out of technique class - running on the cliffs of Santa Barbara and the development of her techn
Acts of Light - 1981
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Parade - 1917
Jose Limon
37. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Pelvic contraction and release
Garth Fagan
Fokine
Africanist Aesthetic
38. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Foyer de la Danse
Suzanne Linglor
Dance Theater of Harlem
Russian Revolution
39. 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
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Prince of Wales
Paul Taylor
40. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Jean Coralli
Jules Perrot
Nijinska
Diaghilev
41. 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
The Dying Swan - 1905
Judson Church
Tsar
42. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Acts of Light - 1981
Imperial Russian Ballet
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
43. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Jitterbug
Cachucha
New York City Ballet
Apollo - 1928
44. One of the major figures in the development of modern dance - an American dancer - choreographer and teacher who created more than 150 works on a wide range of subjects from ancient Greek to modern American; contraction and release
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Ivanov
Martha Graham
Katherine Dunham
45. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Anton Dolin
Les Sylphides
Coppelia
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
46. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
Romantic Era
Gus Solomons Jr
Giselle - 1841
Pelvic contraction and release
47. 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
Tsar
Rudolph Nureyev
The Art of Making Dances
Robert Joffrey
48. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Fanny Elssler
Foyer de la Danse
Still/Here - 1994
Lindy Hop
49. Petipa & Tchaikovsky - was not successful at the time it came out - no trace of sensible dramatic action
The Nutcracker - 1892
Alwin Nikolais
Les Noces - 1923
Buddy Dean Show
50. 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
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Four Temperaments - 1946
Charles Didelot
Avant-Garde