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Dance History
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1. 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
Nijinsky
La Sylphide - 1832
Rudolph Laban
Katherine Dunham
2. Choreography Deeply There
Dance Theater of Harlem
Lion King - 1998
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Joe Goode
3. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Schizophrenia
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Garth Fagan
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
4. 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
Les Noces - 1923
La Sylphide - 1832
Aureole - 1962
Paul Taylor
5. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
Joe Goode
Dr. Louis Vernon
Jose Limon
Anton Dolin
6. 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
Joffrey Ballet
Postmodern Dance
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
7. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Africanist Aesthetic
Avant-Garde
Margaret Sanger
8. 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.
Parade - 1917
Foyer de la Danse
Fall and Recovery
Robert Joffrey
9. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Rose Adagio
Imperial Russian Ballet
La Sylphide - 1832
Isadora Duncan
10. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Nicholas Brothers
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Charles Weidman
Tsar
11. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
Ballroom Dance
Coca Chanel
Talley Beatty
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
12. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Donald McKayle
Romantic Era
Mary Wigman
13. Most important figure in Russia in immediately pre-Romantic days. Did much to improve the repertory and teaching. 20 ballets - raised standards. Flying wires - pointe works.
Prince of Wales
The Art of Making Dances
Agon - 1957
Charles Didelot
14. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Judson Church
Milhaud
AIDS
Jeux - 1913
15. 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
Romantic Era
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Avant-Garde
Lincoln Kirstein
16. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Rite of Spring - 1913
Diaghilev
Tap Dance
Gus Solomons Jr
17. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Massine
Russian Revolution
Four Temperaments - 1946
Theophile Gautier
18. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
American Ballet Theater
Le Train Bleu - 1924
John Cage
Twyla Tharp
19. First book of choreography; published posthumously in 1959
The Art of Making Dances
Harlem
Pilobolus
Jean Coralli
20. Sharp powerful movement; angle
Acts of Light - 1981
Percussive Movement
Nijinska
Gas-lighting and curtain
21. 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)
Fall and Recovery
Ruth St. Denis
Imperial Russian Ballet
Nicholas Brothers
22. 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
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Debussy
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Doris Humphrey
23. HIV - choreographed Still Here - organized survivor workshops
Aureole - 1962
Bill T. Jones
Avant-Garde
Ted Shawn
24. Beginning of modern dance - danced with bare feet - wore flowing Greek-style robe - died being strangled from a long-flowing scarf caught in a car wheel
Isadora Duncan
Joffrey Ballet
Leon Bakst
Stravinsky
25. 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
Africanist Aesthetic
Anton Dolin
Percussive Movement
26. (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
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Dr. Louis Vernon
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Alvin Ailey
27. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Merce Cunningham
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Jitterbug
Arthur Saint Leon
28. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Leon Bakst
Hanya Holm
Rite of Spring - 1913
The Dying Swan - 1905
29. (1819-1899) -Italian ballerina -Leading role in Giselle -Combined techniques of Taglioni & Elssler -Known for strength & lightness
Carlotta Grisi
AIDS
Pilobolus
Jitterbug
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
Ruby Keeler
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Foyer de la Danse
Dance Theater of Harlem
31. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
Fall and Recovery
Dance Theater of Harlem
Gus Solomons Jr
HIV+
32. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Les Sylphides
The Dying Swan - 1905
Arthur Mitchell
Rite of Spring - 1913
33. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Grand Pas de Deux
Jockey Club
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Robert Ellis Dunn
34. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Charles Didelot
Ballroom Dance
Aureole - 1962
Milhaud
35. 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.
Twyla Tharp
Loie Fuller
Rite of Spring - 1913
New York City Ballet
36. 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
Merce Cunningham
The Dying Swan - 1905
Divertissement
37. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Stravinsky
Agon - 1957
Denishawn
Le Train Bleu - 1924
38. 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
Gus Solomons Jr
Alvin Ailey
Garth Fagan
Ronald Brown
39. (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
Imperial Russian Ballet
Marius Petipa
Massine
Fanny Elssler
40. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Percussive Movement
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Tchaikovsky
Lion King - 1998
41. 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
Fokine
Scheherezade
Nijinska
Margaret Sanger
42. 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
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Garth Fagan
43. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
Katherine Dunham
Gus Solomons Jr
Apollo - 1928
Theophile Gautier
44. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Stravinsky
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Jean Baptiste Lande
Postmodern Dance
45. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Lindy Hop
Ronald Brown
Margaret Sanger
46. 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
Loie Fuller
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Apollo - 1928
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
47. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
19th Amendment
Judson Church
Marius Petipa
Rose Adagio
48. Famous for her incredible technique - lightness - and ethereal presence -(1804-1884) -Introduced new costume design (bare neck/shoulders - tutu) -Perfected dancing en pointe -La Sylphide`
Jockey Club
Carlotta Grisi
Marie Taglioni
August Bournonville
49. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
August Bournonville
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Coppelia
Margaret Sanger
50. 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
Arthur Saint Leon
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Ivanov
Gus Solomons Jr