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Dance History
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1. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Stravinsky
Ronald Brown
Theophile Gautier
Jockey Club
2. 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
Ted Shawn
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Charles Didelot
Marius Petipa
3. 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
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Scheherezade
AIDS
Petrouchka - 1911
4. 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
Pelvic contraction and release
Political Asylum
Denishawn
La Sylphide - 1832
5. 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.
Suzanne Linglor
Swan Lake - 1895
Massine
Leon Bakst
6. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
George Balanchine
Pelvic contraction and release
Garth Fagan
Still/Here - 1994
7. 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
Joffrey Ballet
Ballroom Dance
Jose Limon
Paul Taylor
8. 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`
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Marie Taglioni
Ivanov
Africanist Aesthetic
9. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
Russian Revolution
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Suzanne Linglor
Postmodern Dance
10. Broke color barrier - developed stair dance - danced with Shirley Temple - made 'honorary mayor of Harlem' -
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11. 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
Diaghilev
Les Sylphides
Donald McKayle
12. First book of choreography; published posthumously in 1959
The Art of Making Dances
Doris Humphrey
Imperial Russian Ballet
Hip-hop
13. Famous ballerina who formed her own company and toured 1910 - famous for portraying birds - insects - and plants - brought ballet (aristocratic art) to the common person (high schools - etc.)
Anna Pavlova
Cachucha
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Charles Didelot
14. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Percussive Movement
Parade - 1917
Jules Perrot
New York City Ballet
15. 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
HIV+
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Schizophrenia
Suzanne Linglor
16. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
Divertissement
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Leon Bakst
19th Amendment
17. 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
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Jose Limon
Martha Graham
Hanya Holm
18. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Agon - 1957
Still/Here - 1994
John Cage
Jean Baptiste Lande
19. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Savoy Ballroom
Robert Ellis Dunn
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Jean Baptiste Lande
20. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Buddy Dean Show
The Dying Swan - 1905
Alwin Nikolais
Imperial Russian Ballet
21. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
August Bournonville
Lincoln Kirstein
Donald McKayle
Joffrey Ballet
22. 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
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
John Cage
Harlem
Buddy Dean Show
23. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Theophile Gautier
Rudolph Nureyev
Ballet Russes
Pilobolus
24. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Petrouchka - 1911
Harlem
Fall and Recovery
Apollo - 1928
25. Student of Mary Wigman. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German modern to U.S. but Americanized her technique. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew
Suzanne Linglor
Mary Wigman
Hanya Holm
Fanny Elssler
26. 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
Political Asylum
La Sylphide - 1832
Busby Berkeley
Dance Theater of Harlem
27. 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
Pilobolus
Fokine
Giselle - 1841
Rudolph Nureyev
28. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Eleo Pomare
Grand Pas de Deux
Philip Taglioni
Nijinska
29. 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
Jockey Club
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Middle Class
30. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Paul Taylor
Ted Shawn
Franco-Prussian War
Africanist Aesthetic
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
Jitterbug
Loie Fuller
Talley Beatty
Martha Graham
32. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Paul Taylor
Louis Horst
Lion King - 1998
Russian Revolution
33. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Charles Didelot
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Russian Revolution
Marius Petipa
34. Teacher in Merce's studio Who is remembered for creating a competitive environment filled w/ experimentation for new dance styles
Middle Class
Merce Cunningham
Robert Ellis Dunn
Les Noces - 1923
35. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Jitterbug
Prince of Wales
Coppelia
New York City Ballet
36. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
Aureole - 1962
Petrouchka - 1911
HIV+
Talley Beatty
37. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
HIV+
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Romantic Era
Gus Solomons Jr
38. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Grand Pas de Deux
Ruby Keeler
Romantic Era
39. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Agon - 1957
Katherine Dunham
Ronald Brown
The Dying Swan - 1905
40. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Buddy Dean Show
Marius Petipa
Tchaikovsky
Avant-Garde
41. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Judson Church
Fokine
Charles Didelot
Pelvic contraction and release
42. 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.
Loie Fuller
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Grand Pas de Deux
Political Asylum
43. 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
Pablo Picasso
Aureole - 1962
Rose Adagio
Les Sylphides
44. Choreographer of Parade & Three-Cornered hat - known for symphonic ballet - comedy satire - character dancing - and color
Gas-lighting and curtain
The Nutcracker - 1892
AIDS
Massine
45. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
Mary Wigman
Dr. Louis Vernon
Cleopatre -1909
Coca Chanel
46. 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
Lincoln Kirstein
Marie Taglioni
Jean Baptiste Lande
Hip-hop
47. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
Parade - 1917
Rite of Spring - 1913
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Twyla Tharp
48. 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
Jitterbug
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Shirley Temple
Tap Dance
49. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Loie Fuller
Scheherezade
Coppelia
Avant-Garde
50. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Mary Wigman
Imperial Russian Ballet
Prince of Wales
Coca Chanel
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