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Dance History
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1. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
August Bournonville
Charles Didelot
Gas-lighting and curtain
Robert Joffrey
2. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Marius Petipa
Dance Theater of Harlem
Russian Revolution
Anna Pavlova
3. 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
Leon Bakst
Four Temperaments - 1946
Hip-hop
4. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Marius Petipa
Franco-Prussian War
Denishawn
Les Noces - 1923
5. 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
The Dying Swan - 1905
La Sylphide - 1832
Swan Lake - 1895
AIDS
6. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Bill T. Jones
Petrouchka - 1911
Swan Lake - 1895
7. Teacher in Merce's studio Who is remembered for creating a competitive environment filled w/ experimentation for new dance styles
Doris Humphrey
Theophile Gautier
Robert Ellis Dunn
Diaghilev
8. 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
Middle Class
Harlem
Tchaikovsky
Aureole - 1962
9. 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
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Savoy Ballroom
Acts of Light - 1981
Fanny Elssler
10. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Talley Beatty
Garth Fagan
Ruby Keeler
Margaret Sanger
11. 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
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Alwin Nikolais
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Ruth St. Denis
12. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
Alwin Nikolais
Fanny Elssler
Jitterbug
Ronald Brown
13. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Grand Pas de Deux
Ted Shawn
Rite of Spring - 1913
Middle Class
14. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Aureole - 1962
Cleopatre -1909
Rudolph Laban
Nicholas Brothers
15. 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
The Nutcracker - 1892
HIV+
Savoy Ballroom
Arthur Saint Leon
16. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Coca Chanel
Four Temperaments - 1946
Gas-lighting and curtain
17. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Ronald Brown
Leon Bakst
Ivanov
18. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Cachucha
Merce Cunningham
Still/Here - 1994
Alwin Nikolais
19. 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
Martha Graham
George Balanchine
Pablo Picasso
20. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Franco-Prussian War
Rudolph Laban
Scheherezade
Jitterbug
21. Choreographed by Filippino Taglioni and performed by one of the greatest ballerinas of the 19th century Marie Taglioni. One of the most famous Romantic Ballets. - First true romantic ballet
Postmodern Dance
Jean Baptiste Lande
Jean Jacques Rousseau
La Sylphide - 1832
22. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Merce Cunningham
Africanist Aesthetic
The Art of Making Dances
The Dying Swan - 1905
23. 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
Marius Petipa
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Fall and Recovery
24. 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
Denishawn
Pablo Picasso
Anton Dolin
Still/Here - 1994
25. 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
Les Noces - 1923
Fokine
Martha Graham
Savoy Ballroom
26. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Ulysses Dove
Nijinska
Ruth St. Denis
Carlotta Grisi
27. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Percussive Movement
Ballroom Dance
Busby Berkeley
Savoy Ballroom
28. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Fall and Recovery
Jules Perrot
Jitterbug
Swan Lake - 1895
29. 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
Ronald Brown
Arthur Saint Leon
Gus Solomons Jr
Daughter of the Pharaoh
30. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Dr. Louis Vernon
Pilobolus
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
31. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Middle Class
Deeply There - 1998
Denishawn
Ivanov
32. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Anton Dolin
Cachucha
Ballroom Dance
33. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Suzanne Linglor
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Theophile Gautier
New York City Ballet
34. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
August Bournonville
Loie Fuller
Romantic Era
Le Train Bleu - 1924
35. 1957 TV show (similar to the Corny Collins show from Hairspray) - Lindy Hop dance; segregated; eventually shut down due to refusal to fully integrate; presented black music and dance on TV
Still/Here - 1994
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Apollo - 1928
Buddy Dean Show
36. 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
Dance Theater of Harlem
Africanist Aesthetic
Petrouchka - 1911
Aureole - 1962
37. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Schizophrenia
Pablo Picasso
Imperial Russian Ballet
Arthur Saint Leon
38. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Parade - 1917
Robert le Diable
Joffrey Ballet
Theophile Gautier
39. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Harlem
Stravinsky
Ballet Russes
Political Asylum
40. 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
Debussy
Prince of Wales
Paul Taylor
Fokine
41. Broke color barrier - developed stair dance - danced with Shirley Temple - made 'honorary mayor of Harlem' -
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42. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
Jitterbug
Imperial Russian Ballet
Avant-Garde
19th Amendment
43. 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
Doris Humphrey
Garth Fagan
Duet - 1957
Debussy
44. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Scheherezade
Jules Perrot
Arthur Mitchell
Coppelia
45. 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
Ivanov
Le Train Bleu - 1924
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Jean Coralli
46. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Joffrey Ballet
Cleopatre -1909
Isadora Duncan
Lindy Hop
47. 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
Ballroom Dance
Carlotta Grisi
Donald McKayle
Eleo Pomare
48. 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
Divertissement
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Apollo - 1928
49. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Jules Perrot
Four Temperaments - 1946
Grand Pas de Deux
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
50. 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
Grand Pas de Deux
Tap Dance
Charles Weidman
Sleeping Beauty - 1921