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1. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Marius Petipa
Margaret Sanger
Giselle - 1841
Arthur Mitchell
2. 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
Daughter of the Pharaoh
La Sylphide - 1832
Nijinska
Deeply There - 1998
3. (1822-1910) created the first ballet that would later be classified as classical ballet. He also held the position of Ballet Master in Chief to the Imperial Tsar in 1869. created Don Quixote and La Bayadere and many other works. Though he did not cho
Cleopatre -1909
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Marius Petipa
Savoy Ballroom
4. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Rite of Spring - 1913
Stravinsky
Ted Shawn
HIV+
5. 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
Jose Limon
The Nutcracker - 1892
19th Amendment
6. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Margaret Sanger
Jeux - 1913
Romantic Era
Busby Berkeley
7. Was inspired by a cigarette poster featuring the Egyptian goddess Isis to begin investigation Asian art and dance - Founded the Denishawn School of dancing and Related Arts with her husband Ted Shawn in 1915 in Los Angeles - California - Believed tha
Ruth St. Denis
Martha Graham
Denishawn
Fall and Recovery
8. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Rudolph Nureyev
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Isadora Duncan
AIDS
9. HIV - choreographed Still Here - organized survivor workshops
Franco-Prussian War
Anna Pavlova
Africanist Aesthetic
Bill T. Jones
10. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
Scheherezade
Hanya Holm
Margaret Sanger
Anton Dolin
11. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Africanist Aesthetic
Suzanne Linglor
Scheherezade
12. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Doris Humphrey
Apollo - 1928
Ballroom Dance
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
13. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Suzanne Linglor
Alwin Nikolais
Nijinska
Petrouchka - 1911
14. 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
Parade - 1917
Political Asylum
Nicholas Brothers
15. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Jean Coralli
Pelvic contraction and release
Ballet Russes
Theophile Gautier
16. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
Alwin Nikolais
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Nicholas Brothers
Arthur Mitchell
17. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Louis Horst
Les Sylphides
Scheherezade
Rudolph Nureyev
18. Sharp powerful movement; angle
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Gas-lighting and curtain
Isadora Duncan
Percussive Movement
19. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Parade - 1917
Denishawn
Suzanne Linglor
Political Asylum
20. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Coca Chanel
Mary Wigman
19th Amendment
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
21. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Cachucha
Judson Church
American Ballet Theater
Petrouchka - 1911
22. 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
Busby Berkeley
Suzanne Linglor
Ted Shawn
23. 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
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Scheherezade
American Ballet Theater
Ulysses Dove
24. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Katherine Dunham
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Petipa Styles of Movement
Robert Joffrey
25. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
Charles Didelot
Harlem
Nijinska
John Cage
26. 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
Isadora Duncan
Jean Baptiste Lande
George Balanchine
27. 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.
Foyer de la Danse
Louis Horst
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Leon Bakst
28. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Diaghilev
The Dying Swan - 1905
The Nutcracker - 1892
Tchaikovsky
29. 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)
The Dying Swan - 1905
Alvin Ailey
Giselle - 1841
Pelvic contraction and release
30. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Charles Weidman
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Ulysses Dove
Nijinsky
31. 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
Fokine
Loie Fuller
Ronald Brown
32. 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
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Louis Horst
Debussy
33. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Agon - 1957
Isadora Duncan
Debussy
Nijinska
34. 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
Talley Beatty
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Ivanov
35. 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
Rudolph Laban
Hanya Holm
Middle Class
Les Noces - 1923
36. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Giselle - 1841
Mikhail Baryshnikov
August Bournonville
Mary Wigman
37. Inspired by Gautier's novel The Story of the Mummy - very complicated - spectacular - successful ballet - Aspica is the daughter - English Lord in sand storm goes into tomb & gets put into an opium dream where he becomes Tahor and saves Aspico from a
Theophile Gautier
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Nijinska
Daughter of the Pharaoh
38. 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
Percussive Movement
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Four Temperaments - 1946
Robert Ellis Dunn
39. 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
Jose Limon
Diaghilev
Hanya Holm
Margaret Sanger
40. Works to question the complexities of real life
Ted Shawn
Alwin Nikolais
Postmodern Dance
Mikhail Baryshnikov
41. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Ruby Keeler
Four Temperaments - 1946
Charles Weidman
Busby Berkeley
42. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Nijinska
Robert Ellis Dunn
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Martha Graham
43. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Nijinska
Schizophrenia
Massine
Harlem
44. 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
Imperial Russian Ballet
Les Sylphides
Fanny Elssler
Postmodern Dance
45. 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.
Loie Fuller
Tap Dance
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Apollo - 1928
46. 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
Fanny Elssler
Schizophrenia
Anton Dolin
47. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Talley Beatty
Hanya Holm
Jules Perrot
Cleopatre -1909
48. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Carlotta Grisi
Divertissement
Charles Didelot
Lindy Hop
49. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Imperial Russian Ballet
Jean Coralli
Coppelia
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
50. 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
Savoy Ballroom
Pelvic contraction and release
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Arthur Saint Leon