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1. 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
Deeply There - 1998
George Balanchine
Alvin Ailey
Swan Lake - 1895
2. 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)
Alwin Nikolais
Apollo - 1928
Giselle - 1841
Robert Joffrey
3. 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
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Suzanne Linglor
Paul Taylor
Savoy Ballroom
4. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Robert Joffrey
Ulysses Dove
Lindy Hop
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
5. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
Ballroom Dance
Charles Didelot
Busby Berkeley
John Cage
6. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Russian Revolution
Grand Pas de Deux
Middle Class
Joe Goode
7. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Louis Horst
La Sylphide - 1832
Parade - 1917
Still/Here - 1994
8. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Romantic Era
American Ballet Theater
Petipa Styles of Movement
Carlotta Grisi
9. 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
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Petipa Styles of Movement
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Apollo - 1928
10. 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
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Busby Berkeley
Middle Class
11. 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
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Denishawn
Romantic Era
12. 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
Jockey Club
Busby Berkeley
Avant-Garde
Tap Dance
13. 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
Petrouchka - 1911
Acts of Light - 1981
Parade - 1917
14. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Buddy Dean Show
Nijinsky
Louis Horst
Political Asylum
15. 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
Ted Shawn
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Pilobolus
16. 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
Cleopatre -1909
Rudolph Laban
August Bournonville
Jockey Club
17. 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
Rudolph Nureyev
Busby Berkeley
Middle Class
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
18. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Ruby Keeler
Harlem
Donald McKayle
Stravinsky
19. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Les Sylphides
Ronald Brown
Milhaud
20. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Eleo Pomare
Grand Pas de Deux
Loie Fuller
Theophile Gautier
21. Student of Mary Wigman. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German modern to U.S. but Americanized her technique. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Hanya Holm
Fanny Elssler
Philip Taglioni
22. 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
Carlotta Grisi
Theophile Gautier
Middle Class
Hip-hop
23. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Schizophrenia
Joffrey Ballet
Coppelia
August Bournonville
24. 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
Pablo Picasso
Rite of Spring - 1913
Rose Adagio
Nijinsky
25. 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`
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Coca Chanel
Marie Taglioni
Mary Wigman
26. 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
Aureole - 1962
Tsar
Jules Perrot
Milhaud
27. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Judson Church
Nijinsky
Jockey Club
28. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Lindy Hop
Joffrey Ballet
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Schizophrenia
29. 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
Loie Fuller
August Bournonville
Rite of Spring - 1913
Merce Cunningham
30. 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.
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Foyer de la Danse
American Ballet Theater
Anna Pavlova
31. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Stravinsky
Denishawn
The Dying Swan - 1905
Tensile Involvement - 1953
32. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Lion King - 1998
Jean Baptiste Lande
Choreographers who died of AIDS
George Balanchine
33. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Political Asylum
Ruth St. Denis
Schizophrenia
Arthur Saint Leon
34. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Petipa Styles of Movement
Milhaud
Arthur Mitchell
Imperial Russian Ballet
35. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Cleopatre -1909
Africanist Aesthetic
Swan Lake - 1895
Daughter of the Pharaoh
36. 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
Rudolph Laban
Lincoln Kirstein
Alwin Nikolais
37. 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
Gus Solomons Jr
Romantic Era
Nijinsky
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
38. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Dance Theater of Harlem
Prince of Wales
Buddy Dean Show
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
39. A ballet company established in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev. It created a sensation in Western Europe because of the great vitality of Russian ballet compared to French dance. The Ballets Russes became one of the most influential b
The Art of Making Dances
Katherine Dunham
Ivanov
Ballet Russes
40. 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.)
Charles Didelot
Postmodern Dance
Aureole - 1962
Anna Pavlova
41. 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
Massine
Carlotta Grisi
Donald McKayle
Buddy Dean Show
42. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
The Dying Swan - 1905
Doris Humphrey
Petrouchka - 1911
43. 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.
Parade - 1917
Judson Church
Agon - 1957
Franco-Prussian War
44. 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
Tsar
Aureole - 1962
Pablo Picasso
Lincoln Kirstein
45. 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
Margaret Sanger
Nicholas Brothers
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jose Limon
46. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
August Bournonville
New York City Ballet
Alvin Ailey
Judson Church
47. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Africanist Aesthetic
Katherine Dunham
Rite of Spring - 1913
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
48. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Agon - 1957
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Margaret Sanger
Swan Lake - 1895
49. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Agon - 1957
Pilobolus
Les Sylphides
Anna Pavlova
50. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Fokine
The Nutcracker - 1892
Rose Adagio
Theophile Gautier