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Dance History
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1. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
Fall and Recovery
George Balanchine
Middle Class
Jean Coralli
2. Beginning of modern dance - danced with bare feet - wore flowing Greek-style robe - died being strangled from a long-flowing scarf caught in a car wheel
Fokine
Isadora Duncan
Donald McKayle
Twyla Tharp
3. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Grand Pas de Deux
Coppelia
Aureole - 1962
Petrouchka - 1911
4. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Les Noces - 1923
Hanya Holm
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Nijinska
5. 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
La Sylphide - 1832
Les Sylphides
Russian Revolution
Apollo - 1928
6. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Stravinsky
Agon - 1957
Petrouchka - 1911
Leon Bakst
7. 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
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Margaret Sanger
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Lincoln Kirstein
8. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Romantic Era
Nijinska
Political Asylum
Diaghilev
9. Different names but same theater under different political influences
Prince of Wales
Joffrey Ballet
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
10. 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
Jose Limon
Middle Class
Duet - 1957
Swan Lake - 1895
11. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Twyla Tharp
Agon - 1957
Prince of Wales
Africanist Aesthetic
12. A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Lincoln Kirstein
AIDS
Still/Here - 1994
13. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Swan Lake - 1895
Dance Theater of Harlem
Joe Goode
Les Noces - 1923
14. First book of choreography; published posthumously in 1959
Isadora Duncan
Busby Berkeley
The Art of Making Dances
AIDS
15. 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
Petipa Styles of Movement
Fokine
The Art of Making Dances
The Dying Swan - 1905
16. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Dance Theater of Harlem
Still/Here - 1994
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Massine
17. 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`
Coppelia
Marie Taglioni
Merce Cunningham
Dance Theater of Harlem
18. 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
Talley Beatty
Cleopatre -1909
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Alvin Ailey
19. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Gas-lighting and curtain
Russian Revolution
Cachucha
Stravinsky
20. 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
Doris Humphrey
Garth Fagan
Hip-hop
Loie Fuller
21. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
The Art of Making Dances
Four Temperaments - 1946
22. Born in NY - raised in Boston - first exposure to dance in 1920 - witness Diaghilev funeral - worked with Balanchine - established NYC ballet - passion for Japenese culture
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Eleo Pomare
Swan Lake - 1895
Lincoln Kirstein
23. (1931-1989) A New York City dancer who created an American Dance Theater which trains dancers and performs worldwide; most famous work was Revelations and piece named Cry - in honor of his mother; lost battle to AIDS in 1989
Jose Limon
Alvin Ailey
Jules Perrot
Ballroom Dance
24. 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
Scheherezade
Merce Cunningham
George Balanchine
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
25. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Imperial Russian Ballet
August Bournonville
Jockey Club
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
26. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
Pilobolus
Pelvic contraction and release
Hanya Holm
Theophile Gautier
27. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Aureole - 1962
August Bournonville
The Dying Swan - 1905
Swan Lake - 1895
28. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Diaghilev
19th Amendment
Arthur Mitchell
Merce Cunningham
29. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Fokine
Jose Limon
Garth Fagan
Buddy Dean Show
30. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
Robert Ellis Dunn
Ronald Brown
Lion King - 1998
Jitterbug
31. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Denishawn
Fokine
Robert Ellis Dunn
Cachucha
32. 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
Busby Berkeley
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Ivanov
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
33. 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
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Shirley Temple
Jeux - 1913
Stravinsky
34. Taglioni's rival -Her dancing was 'warm and passionate' -Dance was earthy - temperamental - fiery - vuluptuous -Labeled Pagan -Danced folk dances - most famous was Cachucha - Spanish using castanet - twists and turns; Known for her flair and theatric
Bill T. Jones
Ballroom Dance
Fanny Elssler
Pablo Picasso
35. 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
Rudolph Nureyev
Pablo Picasso
Tsar
Black Swan Pas de Deux
36. Choreographed by Filippino Taglioni and performed by one of the greatest ballerinas of the 19th century Marie Taglioni. One of the most famous Romantic Ballets. - First true romantic ballet
Martha Graham
Marie Taglioni
La Sylphide - 1832
Louis Horst
37. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Martha Graham
Stravinsky
Joe Goode
38. 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
Political Asylum
Four Temperaments - 1946
Rose Adagio
Nijinsky
39. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Louis Horst
Gus Solomons Jr
Aureole - 1962
Robert Joffrey
40. 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
Nijinsky
Talley Beatty
Busby Berkeley
Doris Humphrey
41. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
HIV+
Charles Didelot
Anton Dolin
Mikhail Baryshnikov
42. Founded the Gus Solomons Company/Dance - whose repertoire consisted of detailed and analytical compositions that were conceived as 'melted architecture' - drawing from experience as an architecture student at MIT
Arthur Saint Leon
Hanya Holm
Gus Solomons Jr
Fanny Elssler
43. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
Parade - 1917
Ballet Russes
Jitterbug
Robert Ellis Dunn
44. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Rose Adagio
Still/Here - 1994
Industrial Revolution
Milhaud
45. Radically new or original
Avant-Garde
Charles Didelot
Ballroom Dance
Talley Beatty
46. 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
Coppelia
Debussy
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Swan Lake - 1895
47. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Coppelia
Ruth St. Denis
Katherine Dunham
Denishawn
48. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Hanya Holm
Debussy
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Jockey Club
49. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Charles Didelot
August Bournonville
Rose Adagio
Swan Lake - 1895
50. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
Coca Chanel
Bill T. Jones
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Duet - 1957