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1. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Aureole - 1962
Postmodern Dance
The Nutcracker - 1892
Still/Here - 1994
2. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Milhaud
Fall and Recovery
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Alwin Nikolais
3. Different names but same theater under different political influences
Merce Cunningham
Denishawn
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Swan Lake - 1895
4. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Apollo - 1928
Ulysses Dove
Mary Wigman
5. (1819-1899) -Italian ballerina -Leading role in Giselle -Combined techniques of Taglioni & Elssler -Known for strength & lightness
Carlotta Grisi
Jules Perrot
Arthur Saint Leon
Mary Wigman
6. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Les Noces - 1923
Four Temperaments - 1946
The Art of Making Dances
Theophile Gautier
7. 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
Les Noces - 1923
Milhaud
Anton Dolin
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
8. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Ruby Keeler
Denishawn
Industrial Revolution
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
9. 1896-1976 - American - Choreographer - Developed 1930's film fantasy with his daredevil and genius dance design - developed the stage style musical film into a more involved multi-shot fantasy film style with overhead shots - use of tiered set desig
Alvin Ailey
Coca Chanel
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Busby Berkeley
10. 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)
Grand Pas de Deux
New York City Ballet
Nicholas Brothers
Les Noces - 1923
11. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Hip-hop
Rite of Spring - 1913
Petrouchka - 1911
12. 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
Jitterbug
Theophile Gautier
Lion King - 1998
13. 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
Hanya Holm
Pelvic contraction and release
Gas-lighting and curtain
Paul Taylor
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
Arthur Saint Leon
Avant-Garde
Petipa Styles of Movement
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
15. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Ruth St. Denis
Parade - 1917
Percussive Movement
Les Sylphides
16. 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.
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Loie Fuller
Percussive Movement
Jockey Club
17. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Alvin Ailey
Russian Revolution
Stravinsky
18. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Marie Taglioni
Anna Pavlova
Philip Taglioni
Ivanov
19. 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.
Apollo - 1928
Charles Didelot
Postmodern Dance
Alwin Nikolais
20. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Romantic Era
Foyer de la Danse
Gus Solomons Jr
Martha Graham
21. 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
Arthur Saint Leon
Joffrey Ballet
Postmodern Dance
22. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Denishawn
Jean Coralli
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
23. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Suzanne Linglor
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Ted Shawn
Paul Taylor
24. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
Judson Church
Jitterbug
Lincoln Kirstein
The Art of Making Dances
25. Created the well-known Denishawn school with his wife Ruth St. Denis. They taught dancers diverse styles - With his wife they set up the foundations for the principal of Musical Visualization 'a concept that called for movement equivalents to the tim
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Ted Shawn
Rose Adagio
26. 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
Cachucha
Ruby Keeler
Doris Humphrey
27. 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
Jean Baptiste Lande
Pablo Picasso
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Parade - 1917
28. Choreographer of Parade & Three-Cornered hat - known for symphonic ballet - comedy satire - character dancing - and color
Hip-hop
Massine
Avant-Garde
Schizophrenia
29. (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
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Robert Ellis Dunn
Marius Petipa
Charles Weidman
30. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Deeply There - 1998
Hanya Holm
Anton Dolin
31. 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
Mary Wigman
Four Temperaments - 1946
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Parade - 1917
32. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Hip-hop
Rudolph Nureyev
Still/Here - 1994
Tchaikovsky
33. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Nijinska
Coca Chanel
Louis Horst
Arthur Mitchell
34. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Fanny Elssler
Louis Horst
Hip-hop
Les Noces - 1923
35. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Diaghilev
Rudolph Nureyev
Rite of Spring - 1913
Fokine
36. A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
Talley Beatty
Le Train Bleu - 1924
AIDS
Acts of Light - 1981
37. 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
Rudolph Laban
Twyla Tharp
Romantic Era
Gus Solomons Jr
38. Taglioni's rival -Her dancing was 'warm and passionate' -Dance was earthy - temperamental - fiery - vuluptuous -Labeled Pagan -Danced folk dances - most famous was Cachucha - Spanish using castanet - twists and turns; Known for her flair and theatric
Robert Joffrey
Ronald Brown
Philip Taglioni
Fanny Elssler
39. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Joe Goode
Petrouchka - 1911
Fokine
Merce Cunningham
40. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Nijinsky
Alvin Ailey
Imperial Russian Ballet
Prince of Wales
41. 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
Merce Cunningham
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Lincoln Kirstein
42. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Suzanne Linglor
Mary Wigman
Anna Pavlova
Four Temperaments - 1946
43. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
Eleo Pomare
Africanist Aesthetic
Arthur Mitchell
Ulysses Dove
44. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958); Established the Choreographic Institute in Zurich - Founded branches across Europe - Kinetographie Laban=labanotation - primary movement - notation stilled used today in dance - Conte
Rudolph Laban
Harlem
Lincoln Kirstein
The Nutcracker - 1892
45. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
Swan Lake - 1895
Massine
Ted Shawn
Katherine Dunham
46. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Robert le Diable
American Ballet Theater
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Mary Wigman
47. 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
Debussy
Tsar
Ulysses Dove
Massine
48. 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
Dance Theater of Harlem
Swan Lake - 1895
Rudolph Laban
Schizophrenia
49. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Africanist Aesthetic
Jules Perrot
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Middle Class
50. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Massine
Merce Cunningham
La Sylphide - 1832
Imperial Russian Ballet
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