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1. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Jockey Club
Ronald Brown
La Sylphide - 1832
Coppelia
2. Inspired by Gautier's novel The Story of the Mummy - very complicated - spectacular - successful ballet - Aspica is the daughter - English Lord in sand storm goes into tomb & gets put into an opium dream where he becomes Tahor and saves Aspico from a
Suzanne Linglor
Ballroom Dance
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Scheherezade
3. First book of choreography; published posthumously in 1959
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Ballroom Dance
The Art of Making Dances
Franco-Prussian War
4. 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
Diaghilev
American Ballet Theater
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Dr. Louis Vernon
5. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Massine
Acts of Light - 1981
Postmodern Dance
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
6. Height of Romantic Ballet - Star: Carlotta Grisi - Choreographer: Jules Perrot (Carlotta's lover) & Jean Coralli - Written by: Gautier (Who was in love with Grisi) - Act I (sunlit) - Act II (moonlit)
Hip-hop
Russian Revolution
Agon - 1957
Giselle - 1841
7. Nijinsky choreographed - in the forest - nymphs shows up to flirt with the Faun - one of them drops her scarf - they all leave - and he masturbates into the scarf
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Lindy Hop
Rite of Spring - 1913
Jean Coralli
8. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
Savoy Ballroom
Pelvic contraction and release
Russian Revolution
Petrouchka - 1911
9. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Rose Adagio
Ted Shawn
Postmodern Dance
Deeply There - 1998
10. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Foyer de la Danse
Anna Pavlova
Suzanne Linglor
Jules Perrot
11. 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
Divertissement
The Nutcracker - 1892
Ruby Keeler
Donald McKayle
12. 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)
Jean Coralli
Lindy Hop
Nicholas Brothers
Cleopatre -1909
13. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Nijinsky
Tchaikovsky
Marius Petipa
14. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Industrial Revolution
Rudolph Nureyev
Mary Wigman
Lindy Hop
15. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
Gas-lighting and curtain
Jose Limon
Busby Berkeley
Swan Lake - 1895
16. 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`
Marie Taglioni
Pelvic contraction and release
Tap Dance
Industrial Revolution
17. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Les Noces - 1923
Paul Taylor
Robert Ellis Dunn
Nijinska
18. 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.
Lincoln Kirstein
Anna Pavlova
Leon Bakst
Ballroom Dance
19. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Dance Theater of Harlem
Lindy Hop
Coppelia
Alwin Nikolais
20. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
Aureole - 1962
Alwin Nikolais
Jeux - 1913
Coca Chanel
21. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Jitterbug
Rite of Spring - 1913
Franco-Prussian War
22. Studio behind the stage at the Paris Opera which is now used as a rehearsal stage and a reception venue but which was notorious in the 19th century (during the reign of Dr Varon) as the salon where members of the Jockey Club could meet dancers.
AIDS
Petrouchka - 1911
Foyer de la Danse
Robert Ellis Dunn
23. Child actress could dance and sing very well - was able to keep up with Bill Robinson in tap dancing - was seen as the hope during the Great Depression.
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Four Temperaments - 1946
Fokine
Shirley Temple
24. 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
Jean Coralli
19th Amendment
Dance Theater of Harlem
Africanist Aesthetic
25. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Grand Pas de Deux
Nijinska
Margaret Sanger
Political Asylum
26. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Ivanov
Pilobolus
27. Choreography Deeply There
Alwin Nikolais
Joe Goode
Philip Taglioni
Robert le Diable
28. 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
Marie Taglioni
John Cage
Hip-hop
American Ballet Theater
29. 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
Tap Dance
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Pablo Picasso
30. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
Charles Weidman
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Romantic Era
Louis Horst
31. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Jeux - 1913
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Diaghilev
Industrial Revolution
32. 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
Isadora Duncan
Busby Berkeley
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Middle Class
33. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Tchaikovsky
Cleopatre -1909
Africanist Aesthetic
Katherine Dunham
34. 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
Four Temperaments - 1946
Lindy Hop
Rudolph Nureyev
Petrouchka - 1911
35. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Rudolph Laban
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Ruby Keeler
New York City Ballet
36. 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
Leon Bakst
Jose Limon
Savoy Ballroom
Jean Jacques Rousseau
37. 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
Denishawn
August Bournonville
Paul Taylor
Ruby Keeler
38. American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City - she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the
Martha Graham
Mary Wigman
Margaret Sanger
Jean Jacques Rousseau
39. 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
Duet - 1957
Pilobolus
Jean Jacques Rousseau
40. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
August Bournonville
Shirley Temple
Jeux - 1913
The Dying Swan - 1905
41. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Fall and Recovery
Ruby Keeler
Eleo Pomare
Divertissement
42. 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
Savoy Ballroom
Busby Berkeley
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Alwin Nikolais
43. 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
Giselle - 1841
Judson Church
Russian Revolution
44. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Philip Taglioni
Dance Theater of Harlem
The Nutcracker - 1892
Jules Perrot
45. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Still/Here - 1994
Dr. Louis Vernon
Nijinsky
Ruby Keeler
46. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
Milhaud
Joffrey Ballet
Coca Chanel
Jean Baptiste Lande
47. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Robert Joffrey
Tchaikovsky
Four Temperaments - 1946
Savoy Ballroom
48. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
Harlem
Anna Pavlova
Diaghilev
John Cage
49. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Grand Pas de Deux
La Sylphide - 1832
Petipa Styles of Movement
Cleopatre -1909
50. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Ivanov
Imperial Russian Ballet
Grand Pas de Deux
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