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Dance History
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1. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
Anna Pavlova
Anton Dolin
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Ulysses Dove
2. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Cachucha
Katherine Dunham
Gas-lighting and curtain
3. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Louis Horst
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Middle Class
4. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Acts of Light - 1981
Fall and Recovery
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Donald McKayle
5. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958); Established the Choreographic Institute in Zurich - Founded branches across Europe - Kinetographie Laban=labanotation - primary movement - notation stilled used today in dance - Conte
Agon - 1957
Rudolph Laban
The Dying Swan - 1905
Ruth St. Denis
6. 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
Twyla Tharp
Katherine Dunham
Rite of Spring - 1913
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
7. 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
Robert Ellis Dunn
Rite of Spring - 1913
Louis Horst
D-Man in the Water - 1989
8. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Alvin Ailey
Robert le Diable
Coppelia
Garth Fagan
9. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
Busby Berkeley
Louis Horst
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Jitterbug
10. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
Grand Pas de Deux
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Charles Weidman
Pablo Picasso
11. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Postmodern Dance
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Daughter of the Pharaoh
12. A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
Ronald Brown
Scheherezade
American Ballet Theater
AIDS
13. Petipa's assistant that takes over - choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutcracker - dies in 1901 - didn't produce anything more of importance except Swan Lake
Doris Humphrey
Jose Limon
Savoy Ballroom
Ivanov
14. Ballet with music by Erik Satie and a one-act scenario by Jean Cocteau. The ballet was composed 1916-1917 for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The ballet premiered on Friday - May 18th - 1917 at the Thaa
Parade - 1917
Arthur Saint Leon
Milhaud
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
15. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Jean Baptiste Lande
Jeux - 1913
Imperial Russian Ballet
Divertissement
16. Confirmed that Balanchine was an experimentalist - Africanist principles in his rhythmic scores - turns not resolved as in ballet - they just stop - take 'one' counts rather than 'and' counts
Parade - 1917
Apollo - 1928
Swan Lake - 1895
Divertissement
17. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Loie Fuller
Lion King - 1998
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Agon - 1957
18. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Shirley Temple
Lion King - 1998
Anna Pavlova
19. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Katherine Dunham
Margaret Sanger
Shirley Temple
20. 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
Philip Taglioni
Avant-Garde
Busby Berkeley
Nijinsky
21. 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
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Duet - 1957
Donald McKayle
Charles Weidman
22. From its very beginning the ballet was entirely dependent upon this individual; it was his ballet - under the direct supervision and guidance of a court minister appointed by this individual and answerable to him
Joe Goode
Tsar
Divertissement
Africanist Aesthetic
23. 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
Martha Graham
Suzanne Linglor
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Arthur Saint Leon
24. 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
Franco-Prussian War
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Isadora Duncan
25. 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
19th Amendment
Loie Fuller
Philip Taglioni
Ted Shawn
26. 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.)
Donald McKayle
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Anna Pavlova
Shirley Temple
27. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Diaghilev
Avant-Garde
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
28. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
19th Amendment
Dance Theater of Harlem
Petrouchka - 1911
Hip-hop
29. 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
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Marie Taglioni
Ruth St. Denis
Tap Dance
30. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Nijinsky
Jockey Club
American Ballet Theater
Tsar
31. 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
Mary Wigman
Arthur Saint Leon
Garth Fagan
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
32. Different names but same theater under different political influences
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Katherine Dunham
Les Sylphides
Mikhail Baryshnikov
33. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Charles Weidman
Pelvic contraction and release
Fall and Recovery
34. 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
Aureole - 1962
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Duet - 1957
Lindy Hop
35. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Scheherezade
Deeply There - 1998
Fokine
Political Asylum
36. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Dance Theater of Harlem
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Imperial Russian Ballet
New York City Ballet
37. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
John Cage
Paul Taylor
Anton Dolin
Arthur Saint Leon
38. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Russian Revolution
Twyla Tharp
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Philip Taglioni
39. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
Ronald Brown
Foyer de la Danse
Leon Bakst
Louis Horst
40. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Tchaikovsky
Postmodern Dance
Cleopatre -1909
Robert Joffrey
41. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Ulysses Dove
Imperial Russian Ballet
Louis Horst
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
42. 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
Margaret Sanger
Isadora Duncan
Eleo Pomare
Coppelia
43. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Coca Chanel
Avant-Garde
Rite of Spring - 1913
Charles Weidman
44. 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.
Jose Limon
Diaghilev
Loie Fuller
Duet - 1957
45. 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
Ronald Brown
Arthur Saint Leon
Paul Taylor
Merce Cunningham
46. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Alwin Nikolais
Gus Solomons Jr
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jeux - 1913
47. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Lion King - 1998
Arthur Saint Leon
Anna Pavlova
Arthur Mitchell
48. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Milhaud
Political Asylum
Pilobolus
Gas-lighting and curtain
49. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Hanya Holm
Postmodern Dance
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Rudolph Nureyev
50. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Romantic Era
Rite of Spring - 1913
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Franco-Prussian War