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Dance History
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1. Published in London Times 1914 - want to make 'ballet a fully expressive art that mirrored life' - new movement for each dance - no mime (Petipa used so that the audience always understood) - use entire body (to be expressive) - no divertissement (no
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2. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Jeux - 1913
Imperial Russian Ballet
Petrouchka - 1911
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
3. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Acts of Light - 1981
Talley Beatty
Deeply There - 1998
Rose Adagio
4. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Isadora Duncan
Cleopatre -1909
Anna Pavlova
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
5. Reform Russian Ballet - choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova (2 minutes long) - accused of being influenced by Isadora Duncan - teacher & choreographer rather than a refined dancer
Ted Shawn
Parade - 1917
Africanist Aesthetic
Fokine
6. 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
Petrouchka - 1911
La Sylphide - 1832
Hip-hop
Harlem
7. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Alwin Nikolais
Theophile Gautier
Postmodern Dance
New York City Ballet
8. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
Daughter of the Pharaoh
George Balanchine
Rudolph Nureyev
Ruby Keeler
9. 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
Les Sylphides
Marie Taglioni
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Tchaikovsky
10. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Agon - 1957
Doris Humphrey
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Gas-lighting and curtain
11. 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
Lion King - 1998
Dr. Louis Vernon
Schizophrenia
Industrial Revolution
12. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Ballroom Dance
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Mary Wigman
Milhaud
13. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Arthur Saint Leon
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Industrial Revolution
Avant-Garde
14. 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
Dr. Louis Vernon
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Joe Goode
Marie Taglioni
15. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Dr. Louis Vernon
Philip Taglioni
Rudolph Laban
Rudolph Nureyev
16. Created the well-known Denishawn school with his wife Ruth St. Denis. They taught dancers diverse styles - With his wife they set up the foundations for the principal of Musical Visualization 'a concept that called for movement equivalents to the tim
Tap Dance
Ted Shawn
Lincoln Kirstein
Pelvic contraction and release
17. Teacher in Merce's studio Who is remembered for creating a competitive environment filled w/ experimentation for new dance styles
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Industrial Revolution
Robert Ellis Dunn
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
18. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Harlem
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker - 1892
19. 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
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Merce Cunningham
Eleo Pomare
Tsar
20. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
Dance Theater of Harlem
HIV+
Anna Pavlova
Le Train Bleu - 1924
21. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Foyer de la Danse
Louis Horst
Debussy
Nijinska
22. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Still/Here - 1994
Fokine
Savoy Ballroom
Parade - 1917
23. 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
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
New York City Ballet
Ballroom Dance
Jockey Club
24. 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
Robert Joffrey
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
25. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
AIDS
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Robert le Diable
Isadora Duncan
26. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Grand Pas de Deux
Les Sylphides
Arthur Saint Leon
Donald McKayle
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
Jules Perrot
Pablo Picasso
Donald McKayle
Still/Here - 1994
28. 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.
Leon Bakst
Swan Lake - 1895
Shirley Temple
Ronald Brown
29. Radically new or original
Hanya Holm
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Avant-Garde
Cleopatre -1909
30. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Anton Dolin
The Dying Swan - 1905
August Bournonville
AIDS
31. 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
Rudolph Nureyev
Giselle - 1841
Nijinsky
Middle Class
32. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
Gas-lighting and curtain
Ivanov
Garth Fagan
Charles Weidman
33. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Harlem
Percussive Movement
Middle Class
Judson Church
34. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
19th Amendment
Jitterbug
Coca Chanel
Apollo - 1928
35. (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
Carlotta Grisi
Marius Petipa
HIV+
Ballet Russes
36. 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
Cleopatre -1909
Buddy Dean Show
The Nutcracker - 1892
Garth Fagan
37. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Nijinska
Fall and Recovery
Coppelia
Milhaud
38. 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
Robert Joffrey
Parade - 1917
Isadora Duncan
39. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
Alwin Nikolais
Nicholas Brothers
Cachucha
Dance Theater of Harlem
40. Wrote 'The Art of Making Dances' in 1931 - Fall and Recovery - inspired by Bach and used his work in many piece - choreographed pieces without music - Passacaglia and fugue in C minor (showed fall and recovery)
Doris Humphrey
Cleopatre -1909
Merce Cunningham
Robert Joffrey
41. 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
Debussy
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Nijinska
Ted Shawn
42. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Russian Revolution
Joe Goode
Martha Graham
Jitterbug
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
Russian Revolution
Petipa Styles of Movement
Aureole - 1962
The Nutcracker - 1892
44. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Rose Adagio
Bill T. Jones
Petipa Styles of Movement
Nijinsky
45. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Petipa Styles of Movement
Stravinsky
Lincoln Kirstein
Rudolph Nureyev
46. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
Jitterbug
Rite of Spring - 1913
19th Amendment
John Cage
47. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
Grand Pas de Deux
Tap Dance
Jitterbug
Dr. Louis Vernon
48. 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
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Stravinsky
Jose Limon
Imperial Russian Ballet
49. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
Nicholas Brothers
Giselle - 1841
Coca Chanel
Louis Horst
50. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Theophile Gautier
John Cage
Coppelia
Jeux - 1913