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Dance History
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1. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Garth Fagan
19th Amendment
Fall and Recovery
Shirley Temple
2. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Savoy Ballroom
Rudolph Nureyev
George Balanchine
Grand Pas de Deux
3. Considered one of the greatest of African American choreographers - and also bears the titles dancer - educator - and dance company director. After studying under Katherine Dunham and Martha Graham - went on to do solo work and choreograph his own wo
Ulysses Dove
Talley Beatty
Pelvic contraction and release
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
4. 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
Savoy Ballroom
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Carlotta Grisi
Denishawn
5. Sharp powerful movement; angle
Tsar
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Pilobolus
Percussive Movement
6. 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
Leon Bakst
Eleo Pomare
Dance Theater of Harlem
Doris Humphrey
7. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Louis Horst
Loie Fuller
Mary Wigman
Duet - 1957
8. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Pelvic contraction and release
Lion King - 1998
Merce Cunningham
9. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Fall and Recovery
Stravinsky
Divertissement
Fokine
10. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Africanist Aesthetic
Les Sylphides
John Cage
11. 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
Petrouchka - 1911
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Coca Chanel
Apollo - 1928
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. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Jeux - 1913
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Robert Ellis Dunn
Acts of Light - 1981
14. 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
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Gus Solomons Jr
Tchaikovsky
Donald McKayle
15. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Scheherezade
Paul Taylor
Anna Pavlova
Ronald Brown
16. 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
Marius Petipa
La Sylphide - 1832
Garth Fagan
Robert le Diable
17. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
Alwin Nikolais
Loie Fuller
Percussive Movement
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
18. Child actress could dance and sing very well - was able to keep up with Bill Robinson in tap dancing - was seen as the hope during the Great Depression.
Shirley Temple
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Arthur Saint Leon
Imperial Russian Ballet
19. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Jules Perrot
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Industrial Revolution
Postmodern Dance
20. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
Coca Chanel
Jockey Club
Robert Joffrey
Busby Berkeley
21. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
New York City Ballet
Swan Lake - 1895
The Dying Swan - 1905
Anna Pavlova
22. 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)
Political Asylum
Nicholas Brothers
Alvin Ailey
Nijinska
23. Was listed as the choreographer because He was widely respected - was known Perrot (more gifted) was collaborating with him; Choreographed the corps for Giselle
Marie Taglioni
Jean Coralli
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Fall and Recovery
24. 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.
Pilobolus
Duet - 1957
Romantic Era
Nijinsky
25. Broke color barrier - developed stair dance - danced with Shirley Temple - made 'honorary mayor of Harlem' -
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26. 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
Donald McKayle
Fokine
Savoy Ballroom
Tap Dance
27. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Nicholas Brothers
Anton Dolin
Ruby Keeler
Still/Here - 1994
28. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Suzanne Linglor
AIDS
Apollo - 1928
Jockey Club
29. (1931-1989) A New York City dancer who created an American Dance Theater which trains dancers and performs worldwide; most famous work was Revelations and piece named Cry - in honor of his mother; lost battle to AIDS in 1989
Jules Perrot
The Art of Making Dances
Ruby Keeler
Alvin Ailey
30. 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
Isadora Duncan
Margaret Sanger
Milhaud
Bill T. Jones
31. 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
Robert le Diable
Daughter of the Pharaoh
The Art of Making Dances
Jean Jacques Rousseau
32. 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
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Shirley Temple
Schizophrenia
Talley Beatty
33. 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
Swan Lake - 1895
Harlem
Alwin Nikolais
Rudolph Laban
34. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
Anton Dolin
Nicholas Brothers
Ballroom Dance
George Balanchine
35. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Louis Horst
Carlotta Grisi
Anton Dolin
Shirley Temple
36. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Ruth St. Denis
Swan Lake - 1895
Cleopatre -1909
Still/Here - 1994
37. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Theophile Gautier
Gus Solomons Jr
Alwin Nikolais
38. 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
Romantic Era
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Tensile Involvement - 1953
39. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
New York City Ballet
Schizophrenia
Robert Joffrey
The Art of Making Dances
40. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Schizophrenia
Suzanne Linglor
Les Sylphides
Giselle - 1841
41. 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
Mary Wigman
Busby Berkeley
Ivanov
Jean Jacques Rousseau
42. 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
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Pablo Picasso
Four Temperaments - 1946
Buddy Dean Show
43. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Nijinska
Ronald Brown
Choreographers who died of AIDS
August Bournonville
44. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
Ulysses Dove
La Sylphide - 1832
Avant-Garde
Giselle - 1841
45. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
Swan Lake - 1895
Arthur Saint Leon
HIV+
Buddy Dean Show
46. 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
Katherine Dunham
Arthur Mitchell
Cachucha
Middle Class
47. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
Postmodern Dance
Tap Dance
Middle Class
Ronald Brown
48. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Louis Horst
Ballroom Dance
Anna Pavlova
The Art of Making Dances
49. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Marius Petipa
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Diaghilev
Loie Fuller
50. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Ballet Russes
Fanny Elssler
Foyer de la Danse
August Bournonville