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Dance History
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1. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Garth Fagan
Jules Perrot
Rite of Spring - 1913
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
2. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
Foyer de la Danse
Swan Lake - 1895
Massine
Alwin Nikolais
3. 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
Imperial Russian Ballet
Postmodern Dance
Deeply There - 1998
Busby Berkeley
4. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Petipa Styles of Movement
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Lindy Hop
Russian Revolution
5. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
Jose Limon
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Charles Didelot
Giselle - 1841
6. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Grand Pas de Deux
Nijinska
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Pilobolus
7. First book of choreography; published posthumously in 1959
The Art of Making Dances
HIV+
Les Sylphides
Romantic Era
8. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
Ronald Brown
John Cage
Jose Limon
Aureole - 1962
9. 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
Hip-hop
Carlotta Grisi
Paul Taylor
Massine
10. 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
Pilobolus
Ivanov
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Dr. Louis Vernon
11. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Anton Dolin
Petipa Styles of Movement
The Art of Making Dances
Louis Horst
12. Published in London Times 1914 - want to make 'ballet a fully expressive art that mirrored life' - new movement for each dance - no mime (Petipa used so that the audience always understood) - use entire body (to be expressive) - no divertissement (no
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13. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Anna Pavlova
Massine
Joffrey Ballet
Scheherezade
14. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
19th Amendment
Anna Pavlova
Dr. Louis Vernon
15. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
John Cage
Rite of Spring - 1913
Philip Taglioni
16. 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.)
Coppelia
Debussy
Bill T. Jones
Anna Pavlova
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
Nijinsky
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Hanya Holm
18. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Prince of Wales
Jeux - 1913
Shirley Temple
Black Swan Pas de Deux
19. 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
Lion King - 1998
Apollo - 1928
Massine
George Balanchine
20. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Debussy
Lindy Hop
Rudolph Nureyev
21. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Theophile Gautier
Avant-Garde
Nicholas Brothers
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
Buddy Dean Show
Eleo Pomare
Mikhail Baryshnikov
New York City Ballet
23. Choreographer of Parade & Three-Cornered hat - known for symphonic ballet - comedy satire - character dancing - and color
Parade - 1917
Cleopatre -1909
Russian Revolution
Massine
24. 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
Deeply There - 1998
Pilobolus
Swan Lake - 1895
Aureole - 1962
25. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Ruby Keeler
The Nutcracker - 1892
Gas-lighting and curtain
August Bournonville
26. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Shirley Temple
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Postmodern Dance
Lion King - 1998
27. 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
Eleo Pomare
Coppelia
Carlotta Grisi
D-Man in the Water - 1989
28. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Rose Adagio
Merce Cunningham
Russian Revolution
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
29. 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
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Petipa Styles of Movement
Debussy
Romantic Era
30. 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 Joffrey
Jean Baptiste Lande
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
31. 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
Hanya Holm
Schizophrenia
Charles Didelot
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
32. 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
Harlem
Robert Joffrey
Jean Jacques Rousseau
La Sylphide - 1832
33. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Percussive Movement
Harlem
The Art of Making Dances
Jean Coralli
34. 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
Dance Theater of Harlem
Arthur Saint Leon
Rose Adagio
Schizophrenia
35. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Ballroom Dance
Stravinsky
Twyla Tharp
36. Petipa & Tchaikovsky - was not successful at the time it came out - no trace of sensible dramatic action
The Nutcracker - 1892
American Ballet Theater
Suzanne Linglor
Louis Horst
37. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Lion King - 1998
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Jules Perrot
Percussive Movement
38. 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
Tap Dance
Franco-Prussian War
Doris Humphrey
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
39. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Alvin Ailey
The Dying Swan - 1905
Divertissement
Choreographers who died of AIDS
40. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Pelvic contraction and release
Avant-Garde
41. Sharp powerful movement; angle
Percussive Movement
Jean Baptiste Lande
Pablo Picasso
Fall and Recovery
42. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Nicholas Brothers
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Philip Taglioni
Savoy Ballroom
43. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Bill T. Jones
Jockey Club
Political Asylum
Charles Didelot
44. 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)
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Savoy Ballroom
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Nicholas Brothers
45. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Les Noces - 1923
Duet - 1957
Stravinsky
Martha Graham
46. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Massine
Robert le Diable
Paul Taylor
Ivanov
47. 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
Middle Class
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Fanny Elssler
Joe Goode
48. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
Gas-lighting and curtain
Gus Solomons Jr
George Balanchine
Political Asylum
49. 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
Middle Class
Margaret Sanger
New York City Ballet
Charles Didelot
50. 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
Coca Chanel
Ruby Keeler
Tsar
Buddy Dean Show