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Dance History
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1. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
Ivanov
Jose Limon
Doris Humphrey
Merce Cunningham
2. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Romantic Era
Dance Theater of Harlem
Ruby Keeler
Tsar
3. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Ballroom Dance
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Isadora Duncan
Lion King - 1998
4. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Katherine Dunham
Isadora Duncan
Bill T. Jones
Petrouchka - 1911
5. 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
Middle Class
AIDS
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Merce Cunningham
6. 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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7. Started in NYC by Robert Joffrey - small company - repertoire was eclectic and contemporary - reconstructed works from Diaghilev's Ballets Russes - Financially weak - often folded - moved to LA then chicago
Lincoln Kirstein
Joffrey Ballet
Jitterbug
Margaret Sanger
8. 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
Hanya Holm
Dance Theater of Harlem
Pablo Picasso
Theophile Gautier
9. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Lion King - 1998
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Ronald Brown
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
10. 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
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Anna Pavlova
Denishawn
11. Dancer - choreographer - teacher - born 1930 in NY - began dancing senior year of HS - scholarship to New Dance group. studied with Primus. Professional debut in 1948 - choreographed 1st pieces with group when 18 - 1951 founded contemporary dance gro
Jitterbug
Harlem
Donald McKayle
Rudolph Nureyev
12. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Agon - 1957
Stravinsky
August Bournonville
Ted Shawn
13. 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
Pelvic contraction and release
Gus Solomons Jr
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Charles Weidman
14. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
John Cage
Still/Here - 1994
Pablo Picasso
Jean Jacques Rousseau
15. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Prince of Wales
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Acts of Light - 1981
Rudolph Laban
16. 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.
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Franco-Prussian War
Joe Goode
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
17. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
Leon Bakst
Arthur Mitchell
Merce Cunningham
Twyla Tharp
18. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
Alwin Nikolais
Pelvic contraction and release
Charles Didelot
Scheherezade
19. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
Ulysses Dove
Tap Dance
Carlotta Grisi
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
20. 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
Marie Taglioni
Joffrey Ballet
The Dying Swan - 1905
21. 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
Tensile Involvement - 1953
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Eleo Pomare
Rite of Spring - 1913
22. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Rudolph Laban
Gas-lighting and curtain
Ballet Russes
Garth Fagan
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
Theophile Gautier
Jean Coralli
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Alwin Nikolais
24. 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
Percussive Movement
Marius Petipa
Middle Class
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
25. 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
Schizophrenia
The Dying Swan - 1905
Rudolph Nureyev
Scheherezade
26. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Jean Coralli
Doris Humphrey
Ronald Brown
27. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Nijinsky
Ronald Brown
Hip-hop
Pilobolus
28. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Arthur Mitchell
Fanny Elssler
Percussive Movement
29. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Alwin Nikolais
Talley Beatty
Cleopatre -1909
Busby Berkeley
30. Arthur Mitchell founder and artistic director -1st black dancer to break color barrier for classical ballet -America's 1st outstanding ballet company of black dancers -started school with Karel Shook -shaped by Balanchine -Dancers known for warmth an
Industrial Revolution
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Dance Theater of Harlem
HIV+
31. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Divertissement
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Ballroom Dance
Anna Pavlova
32. Sharp powerful movement; angle
Avant-Garde
Schizophrenia
Denishawn
Percussive Movement
33. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
Katherine Dunham
Aureole - 1962
19th Amendment
The Nutcracker - 1892
34. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Buddy Dean Show
August Bournonville
Deeply There - 1998
Les Sylphides
35. 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.)
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Anna Pavlova
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Bill T. Jones
36. 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
Savoy Ballroom
Ivanov
Merce Cunningham
37. 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
Gus Solomons Jr
Rudolph Laban
Robert Joffrey
38. 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
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Tsar
Ruth St. Denis
Petipa Styles of Movement
39. 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
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Jules Perrot
40. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Prince of Wales
Rite of Spring - 1913
Robert le Diable
Jeux - 1913
41. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
The Dying Swan - 1905
Industrial Revolution
Mary Wigman
Fall and Recovery
42. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Foyer de la Danse
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Jose Limon
43. First book of choreography; published posthumously in 1959
Massine
Charles Weidman
The Art of Making Dances
Coppelia
44. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Busby Berkeley
Jules Perrot
Political Asylum
Arthur Saint Leon
45. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Petipa Styles of Movement
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Schizophrenia
Merce Cunningham
46. (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
Jeux - 1913
Alvin Ailey
Ted Shawn
Jean Jacques Rousseau
47. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Martha Graham
Apollo - 1928
Grand Pas de Deux
Cleopatre -1909
48. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Gas-lighting and curtain
Gus Solomons Jr
Pablo Picasso
Imperial Russian Ballet
49. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Garth Fagan
Percussive Movement
Arthur Saint Leon
Industrial Revolution
50. 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
Fall and Recovery
Doris Humphrey
Nicholas Brothers
Dr. Louis Vernon