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Dance History
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1. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Tchaikovsky
Russian Revolution
The Dying Swan - 1905
Rose Adagio
2. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Giselle - 1841
Franco-Prussian War
Robert Joffrey
Eleo Pomare
3. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Leon Bakst
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Robert Joffrey
Judson Church
4. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
George Balanchine
Ruby Keeler
Jitterbug
Prince of Wales
5. 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.)
Africanist Aesthetic
Acts of Light - 1981
Margaret Sanger
Anna Pavlova
6. 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
Coppelia
Gus Solomons Jr
Lion King - 1998
Les Noces - 1923
7. 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
Agon - 1957
Rudolph Laban
Tchaikovsky
American Ballet Theater
8. (1819-1899) -Italian ballerina -Leading role in Giselle -Combined techniques of Taglioni & Elssler -Known for strength & lightness
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Carlotta Grisi
Milhaud
Grand Pas de Deux
9. 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
Ivanov
Lincoln Kirstein
Robert Joffrey
10. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Bill T. Jones
Jules Perrot
Charles Didelot
Denishawn
11. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
Buddy Dean Show
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Les Noces - 1923
George Balanchine
12. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Tsar
Arthur Mitchell
Lincoln Kirstein
Industrial Revolution
13. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Africanist Aesthetic
19th Amendment
Jean Baptiste Lande
Les Noces - 1923
14. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Theophile Gautier
Pilobolus
Joe Goode
15. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
New York City Ballet
Petrouchka - 1911
Hip-hop
Judson Church
16. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Judson Church
Robert le Diable
Les Sylphides
Rudolph Nureyev
17. 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
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Nicholas Brothers
Le Train Bleu - 1924
The Dying Swan - 1905
18. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Petipa Styles of Movement
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Harlem
19. Was listed as the choreographer because He was widely respected - was known Perrot (more gifted) was collaborating with him; Choreographed the corps for Giselle
Hip-hop
La Sylphide - 1832
Jean Coralli
Fanny Elssler
20. 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
Loie Fuller
Buddy Dean Show
Four Temperaments - 1946
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
21. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Nijinska
Acts of Light - 1981
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Choreographers who died of AIDS
22. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Garth Fagan
Arthur Saint Leon
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Twyla Tharp
23. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Scheherezade
Paul Taylor
Fall and Recovery
Les Sylphides
24. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Gus Solomons Jr
Grand Pas de Deux
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Ronald Brown
25. 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
Pablo Picasso
Garth Fagan
Gus Solomons Jr
Tap Dance
26. Designer. Influenced by Greek and Asian art. Costumes and sets full of bold colors. Decorative motifs that employed perspective painting. Successful with ballet. 'sophisticated eclecticism'. Teacher.
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Arthur Mitchell
Gus Solomons Jr
Leon Bakst
27. 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
Paul Taylor
Pelvic contraction and release
Middle Class
Duet - 1957
28. 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.
Fokine
Foyer de la Danse
Aureole - 1962
Ruby Keeler
29. 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
Marie Taglioni
Fokine
Ivanov
Marius Petipa
30. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Jitterbug
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Industrial Revolution
Divertissement
31. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Isadora Duncan
Hip-hop
Garth Fagan
Diaghilev
32. Broke color barrier - developed stair dance - danced with Shirley Temple - made 'honorary mayor of Harlem' -
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33. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
Ulysses Dove
Charles Weidman
Bill T. Jones
Fall and Recovery
34. 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
Anna Pavlova
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Political Asylum
Middle Class
35. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Tsar
Rudolph Nureyev
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
36. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Grand Pas de Deux
Tchaikovsky
Ballet Russes
Le Train Bleu - 1924
37. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
The Dying Swan - 1905
Jose Limon
Eleo Pomare
Petipa Styles of Movement
38. 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
Deeply There - 1998
Still/Here - 1994
Rite of Spring - 1913
Merce Cunningham
39. 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
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Louis Horst
Romantic Era
Swan Lake - 1895
40. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Duet - 1957
Arthur Saint Leon
Acts of Light - 1981
Industrial Revolution
41. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Ted Shawn
Romantic Era
Talley Beatty
42. 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
Fanny Elssler
Hip-hop
Philip Taglioni
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
43. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
Ronald Brown
D-Man in the Water - 1989
HIV+
Coca Chanel
44. Wrote 'The Art of Making Dances' in 1931 - Fall and Recovery - inspired by Bach and used his work in many piece - choreographed pieces without music - Passacaglia and fugue in C minor (showed fall and recovery)
Doris Humphrey
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Margaret Sanger
Twyla Tharp
45. 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
Swan Lake - 1895
Talley Beatty
Savoy Ballroom
Dance Theater of Harlem
46. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
Jean Coralli
Middle Class
John Cage
Margaret Sanger
47. St. Denis and Ted Shawn's company that helps spread the gospel of dance from the constraints of ballet - opened a school in Los Angeles - brought dance to the middle class by supporting good health and virginal spirituality
Denishawn
Fall and Recovery
Martha Graham
Pilobolus
48. 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
Massine
Apollo - 1928
Hanya Holm
49. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
John Cage
Joffrey Ballet
Jules Perrot
Milhaud
50. Petipa & Tchaikovsky - was not successful at the time it came out - no trace of sensible dramatic action
Agon - 1957
Charles Weidman
The Nutcracker - 1892
Buddy Dean Show