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1. (1819-1899) -Italian ballerina -Leading role in Giselle -Combined techniques of Taglioni & Elssler -Known for strength & lightness
Lion King - 1998
Petipa Styles of Movement
Nijinska
Carlotta Grisi
2. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
Carlotta Grisi
Alvin Ailey
Coca Chanel
Nijinska
3. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
Carlotta Grisi
Franco-Prussian War
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Alwin Nikolais
4. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
Stravinsky
Rudolph Nureyev
Ivanov
Ulysses Dove
5. 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
Dr. Louis Vernon
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Massine
6. Was listed as the choreographer because He was widely respected - was known Perrot (more gifted) was collaborating with him; Choreographed the corps for Giselle
Merce Cunningham
Jean Coralli
Romantic Era
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
7. A signature piece of Taylor's in which he and his pianist remain motionless for the duration of the music-less score by John Cage.
Cachucha
Marius Petipa
Isadora Duncan
Duet - 1957
8. First book of choreography; published posthumously in 1959
Apollo - 1928
The Art of Making Dances
Loie Fuller
John Cage
9. 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.
Leon Bakst
Tsar
American Ballet Theater
Four Temperaments - 1946
10. 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
Hanya Holm
Apollo - 1928
Eleo Pomare
Jean Baptiste Lande
11. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Pilobolus
Rudolph Nureyev
Garth Fagan
Industrial Revolution
12. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Imperial Russian Ballet
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Africanist Aesthetic
Pablo Picasso
13. 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
Margaret Sanger
American Ballet Theater
Dance Theater of Harlem
Charles Weidman
14. 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
The Nutcracker - 1892
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Les Sylphides
Still/Here - 1994
15. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Les Noces - 1923
Ulysses Dove
Jules Perrot
Ivanov
16. 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
Jose Limon
Ruby Keeler
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Margaret Sanger
17. Were top musical stars of the '30s; appeared in musicals that were considered old-fashioned when they were made; displaced their characters' sexual desire into fighting with each other
Stravinsky
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Four Temperaments - 1946
Talley Beatty
18. 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
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Lincoln Kirstein
Eleo Pomare
Arthur Saint Leon
19. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
HIV+
Eleo Pomare
Africanist Aesthetic
Fall and Recovery
20. (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
Talley Beatty
Marius Petipa
Jose Limon
Twyla Tharp
21. 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
Cachucha
Middle Class
Diaghilev
Paul Taylor
22. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Charles Didelot
Gas-lighting and curtain
Franco-Prussian War
Ballroom Dance
23. HIV - choreographed Still Here - organized survivor workshops
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Joffrey Ballet
Bill T. Jones
Massine
24. Choreographer of Parade & Three-Cornered hat - known for symphonic ballet - comedy satire - character dancing - and color
Massine
Diaghilev
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Doris Humphrey
25. 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
Lincoln Kirstein
Cleopatre -1909
Marie Taglioni
Jean Jacques Rousseau
26. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Martha Graham
Romantic Era
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Tensile Involvement - 1953
27. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Shirley Temple
Africanist Aesthetic
Marie Taglioni
Arthur Mitchell
28. Marius Petipa - 4 fairies for Aurora - did not invite the evil fairy - put a spell on Aurora @ 16 she would prick her finger on a spindle & fall asleep for 100 years - End of Act I pricks her finger - Act III is the wedding (divertissement - Grand Pa
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
New York City Ballet
Garth Fagan
Russian Revolution
29. 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
19th Amendment
Stravinsky
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Nijinsky
30. 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
American Ballet Theater
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Hip-hop
Ruby Keeler
31. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
Denishawn
The Nutcracker - 1892
Martha Graham
Pelvic contraction and release
32. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Prince of Wales
Mary Wigman
Rose Adagio
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
33. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Russian Revolution
New York City Ballet
Schizophrenia
Gus Solomons Jr
34. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Harlem
Rite of Spring - 1913
Joffrey Ballet
Nijinska
35. 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
Scheherezade
Katherine Dunham
Four Temperaments - 1946
Nijinsky
36. 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
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
La Sylphide - 1832
Debussy
Fokine
37. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Dance Theater of Harlem
Russian Revolution
Joffrey Ballet
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
38. 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
La Sylphide - 1832
Schizophrenia
Shirley Temple
Jeux - 1913
39. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
New York City Ballet
Ballroom Dance
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
40. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Apollo - 1928
Judson Church
Lincoln Kirstein
Buddy Dean Show
41. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Fall and Recovery
Robert Joffrey
Fokine
Romantic Era
42. A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
AIDS
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Still/Here - 1994
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
43. Wrote Discourse on the Origins of the Inequality of Mankind; wrote The Social Contract; wrote Confessions; believed that emotions as well as reason were important to human development but sent his own children to orphanages
Petipa Styles of Movement
Parade - 1917
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Jean Jacques Rousseau
44. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Rudolph Nureyev
Charles Didelot
The Nutcracker - 1892
Robert Ellis Dunn
45. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Nicholas Brothers
Imperial Russian Ballet
Milhaud
Carlotta Grisi
46. 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)
Cleopatre -1909
Doris Humphrey
Suzanne Linglor
Prince of Wales
47. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
Lindy Hop
Ronald Brown
Katherine Dunham
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
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
Apollo - 1928
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Dance Theater of Harlem
Imperial Russian Ballet
49. 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
Savoy Ballroom
Parade - 1917
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Marie Taglioni
50. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Rose Adagio
John Cage
Milhaud
Coca Chanel