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1. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Lion King - 1998
Aureole - 1962
Les Noces - 1923
Duet - 1957
2. Sharp powerful movement; angle
Margaret Sanger
Percussive Movement
Imperial Russian Ballet
Theophile Gautier
3. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Romantic Era
Charles Weidman
Joffrey Ballet
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
4. 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
Fokine
Margaret Sanger
Judson Church
Aureole - 1962
5. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Debussy
Robert le Diable
Still/Here - 1994
Joffrey Ballet
6. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Denishawn
Diaghilev
Ballroom Dance
Black Swan Pas de Deux
7. (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
Marius Petipa
Judson Church
Political Asylum
Gus Solomons Jr
8. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
August Bournonville
Lindy Hop
Ted Shawn
Petipa Styles of Movement
9. Was listed as the choreographer because He was widely respected - was known Perrot (more gifted) was collaborating with him; Choreographed the corps for Giselle
Tchaikovsky
19th Amendment
Stravinsky
Jean Coralli
10. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Cachucha
Aureole - 1962
Ted Shawn
Ballet Russes
11. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Giselle - 1841
Arthur Mitchell
Hanya Holm
Africanist Aesthetic
12. 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
Philip Taglioni
Schizophrenia
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
13. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Joffrey Ballet
Shirley Temple
Talley Beatty
Stravinsky
14. 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
Petipa Styles of Movement
Ted Shawn
Postmodern Dance
D-Man in the Water - 1989
15. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Stravinsky
Nicholas Brothers
Rudolph Nureyev
Ruth St. Denis
16. 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
Denishawn
The Nutcracker - 1892
Anna Pavlova
17. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
La Sylphide - 1832
Les Noces - 1923
Tsar
Jose Limon
18. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Suzanne Linglor
Margaret Sanger
Loie Fuller
Giselle - 1841
19. 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
Parade - 1917
Swan Lake - 1895
Martha Graham
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
20. 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
Acts of Light - 1981
Lincoln Kirstein
Ivanov
Le Train Bleu - 1924
21. Marius Petipa - 4 fairies for Aurora - did not invite the evil fairy - put a spell on Aurora @ 16 she would prick her finger on a spindle & fall asleep for 100 years - End of Act I pricks her finger - Act III is the wedding (divertissement - Grand Pa
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Joffrey Ballet
Massine
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
22. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Margaret Sanger
Les Sylphides
Postmodern Dance
Still/Here - 1994
23. 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
Fokine
New York City Ballet
Marius Petipa
Diaghilev
24. 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
Pablo Picasso
Buddy Dean Show
Paul Taylor
Twyla Tharp
25. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Four Temperaments - 1946
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Deeply There - 1998
Scheherezade
26. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Dance Theater of Harlem
Robert Ellis Dunn
Cleopatre -1909
Pelvic contraction and release
27. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Eleo Pomare
Jean Baptiste Lande
Postmodern Dance
Nijinsky
28. Dances have no linear development; no central focus on stage; a field of dancers where you can watch any dancer from any direction and decide for yourself where the focus of the dance is
Pilobolus
Milhaud
Still/Here - 1994
Merce Cunningham
29. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
Twyla Tharp
Suzanne Linglor
Petrouchka - 1911
The Nutcracker - 1892
30. 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)
Nicholas Brothers
Robert Ellis Dunn
Daughter of the Pharaoh
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
31. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
HIV+
Rudolph Nureyev
Twyla Tharp
Philip Taglioni
32. Radically new or original
Deeply There - 1998
Diaghilev
Avant-Garde
Nijinska
33. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Anton Dolin
Rose Adagio
Charles Weidman
Arthur Saint Leon
34. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Political Asylum
Africanist Aesthetic
Parade - 1917
Arthur Saint Leon
35. Different names but same theater under different political influences
Gus Solomons Jr
Pablo Picasso
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Marius Petipa
36. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Africanist Aesthetic
Romantic Era
Jitterbug
Ballet Russes
37. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Pilobolus
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dr. Louis Vernon
New York City Ballet
38. 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
Political Asylum
American Ballet Theater
Avant-Garde
Tensile Involvement - 1953
39. Interrupted first flush of success of Coppelia and the included the siege of Paris - which also led to the early death of Giuseppina Bozzacchi - on her 17th birthday - but eventually it became the most-performed ballet at the Opera Garnier.
Political Asylum
Loie Fuller
Franco-Prussian War
Savoy Ballroom
40. 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
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Talley Beatty
Franco-Prussian War
Gas-lighting and curtain
41. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Robert Ellis Dunn
Harlem
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Avant-Garde
42. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Pelvic contraction and release
Industrial Revolution
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Judson Church
43. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Swan Lake - 1895
Harlem
Rose Adagio
Scheherezade
44. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Coppelia
Debussy
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Rudolph Nureyev
45. 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
La Sylphide - 1832
Debussy
Arthur Mitchell
Ruth St. Denis
46. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Hanya Holm
Diaghilev
Milhaud
Philip Taglioni
47. 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
Agon - 1957
John Cage
Nijinsky
Lion King - 1998
48. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Les Sylphides
New York City Ballet
Doris Humphrey
Ballet Russes
49. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Dance Theater of Harlem
Les Sylphides
Fokine
Divertissement
50. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Middle Class
Les Noces - 1923
The Dying Swan - 1905
Franco-Prussian War