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Dance History
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1. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Ballet Russes
Jeux - 1913
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Jean Baptiste Lande
2. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Jules Perrot
Jean Baptiste Lande
Garth Fagan
3. 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
Anton Dolin
Buddy Dean Show
Marie Taglioni
Acts of Light - 1981
4. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Political Asylum
Ulysses Dove
Shirley Temple
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
Anton Dolin
Martha Graham
Mary Wigman
Merce Cunningham
6. 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
Ballroom Dance
Hanya Holm
Tsar
7. 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
Ruth St. Denis
Foyer de la Danse
Duet - 1957
8. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Africanist Aesthetic
Coppelia
Imperial Russian Ballet
Agon - 1957
9. 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
Alvin Ailey
Ted Shawn
Parade - 1917
Eleo Pomare
10. 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
Ballet Russes
Eleo Pomare
Talley Beatty
Doris Humphrey
11. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Agon - 1957
Milhaud
Eleo Pomare
Leon Bakst
12. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Savoy Ballroom
Grand Pas de Deux
Jitterbug
13. HIV - choreographed Still Here - organized survivor workshops
Doris Humphrey
Nicholas Brothers
Bill T. Jones
Coppelia
14. 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
Ballroom Dance
Postmodern Dance
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Merce Cunningham
15. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Gas-lighting and curtain
Twyla Tharp
Rudolph Laban
Coppelia
16. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
Jules Perrot
Philip Taglioni
19th Amendment
Katherine Dunham
17. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Joe Goode
Jeux - 1913
AIDS
Doris Humphrey
18. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Coca Chanel
Grand Pas de Deux
Ballroom Dance
Ronald Brown
19. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
HIV+
Aureole - 1962
George Balanchine
Fall and Recovery
20. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Deeply There - 1998
Alvin Ailey
Joffrey Ballet
21. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Milhaud
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
AIDS
Giselle - 1841
22. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
August Bournonville
Jose Limon
Shirley Temple
23. 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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24. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Carlotta Grisi
Petrouchka - 1911
Tchaikovsky
Jean Baptiste Lande
25. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Les Sylphides
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Twyla Tharp
Suzanne Linglor
26. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Aureole - 1962
New York City Ballet
Dr. Louis Vernon
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
27. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Jules Perrot
Jockey Club
Jeux - 1913
AIDS
28. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Savoy Ballroom
The Dying Swan - 1905
Joffrey Ballet
29. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Jules Perrot
Leon Bakst
Paul Taylor
Robert Joffrey
30. 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
Hanya Holm
Imperial Russian Ballet
Arthur Mitchell
31. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Tchaikovsky
Merce Cunningham
Denishawn
HIV+
32. Radically new or original
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Avant-Garde
Merce Cunningham
Les Sylphides
33. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
George Balanchine
Foyer de la Danse
Les Noces - 1923
HIV+
34. 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
Political Asylum
Hip-hop
Ted Shawn
Jean Coralli
35. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Parade - 1917
Marius Petipa
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Stravinsky
36. 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
Dr. Louis Vernon
Schizophrenia
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
37. 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
Petipa Styles of Movement
Stravinsky
Lindy Hop
38. 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
Still/Here - 1994
The Art of Making Dances
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Savoy Ballroom
39. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Rite of Spring - 1913
Fanny Elssler
New York City Ballet
Petipa Styles of Movement
40. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Petrouchka - 1911
Robert Joffrey
Judson Church
Pilobolus
41. 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
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Busby Berkeley
Pilobolus
Middle Class
42. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Mary Wigman
Denishawn
Judson Church
Russian Revolution
43. 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
Theophile Gautier
Hip-hop
Ruth St. Denis
Rudolph Nureyev
44. 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
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Margaret Sanger
Eleo Pomare
Tap Dance
45. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
American Ballet Theater
Rose Adagio
Scheherezade
John Cage
46. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
Imperial Russian Ballet
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Cleopatre -1909
HIV+
47. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Franco-Prussian War
Four Temperaments - 1946
Petipa Styles of Movement
Robert le Diable
48. 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
Jockey Club
Tchaikovsky
Nicholas Brothers
Gus Solomons Jr
49. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Theophile Gautier
Rudolph Nureyev
Ted Shawn
New York City Ballet
50. 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
Jockey Club
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Denishawn
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater