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Dance History
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1. 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
Scheherezade
Franco-Prussian War
Buddy Dean Show
Pablo Picasso
2. 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
Carlotta Grisi
Robert le Diable
Isadora Duncan
3. One of the major figures in the development of modern dance - an American dancer - choreographer and teacher who created more than 150 works on a wide range of subjects from ancient Greek to modern American; contraction and release
Martha Graham
Dr. Louis Vernon
Massine
Tap Dance
4. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Isadora Duncan
Africanist Aesthetic
Suzanne Linglor
Apollo - 1928
5. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Scheherezade
Coppelia
American Ballet Theater
Tchaikovsky
6. 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
Acts of Light - 1981
Tsar
Gas-lighting and curtain
American Ballet Theater
7. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Prince of Wales
Garth Fagan
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
8. 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.
Busby Berkeley
Twyla Tharp
Franco-Prussian War
Scheherezade
9. 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
Savoy Ballroom
Giselle - 1841
Rudolph Laban
10. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Robert Joffrey
Paul Taylor
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Ruth St. Denis
11. 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
Ivanov
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
La Sylphide - 1832
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
12. (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
Donald McKayle
Jockey Club
Marius Petipa
HIV+
13. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Judson Church
Petipa Styles of Movement
Arthur Mitchell
Petrouchka - 1911
14. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
Lindy Hop
Pelvic contraction and release
Coppelia
The Art of Making Dances
15. A ballet company established in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev. It created a sensation in Western Europe because of the great vitality of Russian ballet compared to French dance. The Ballets Russes became one of the most influential b
Fanny Elssler
Ballet Russes
Petipa Styles of Movement
Denishawn
16. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Aureole - 1962
Fokine
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Robert le Diable
17. Was listed as the choreographer because He was widely respected - was known Perrot (more gifted) was collaborating with him; Choreographed the corps for Giselle
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Jean Coralli
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
18. 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
Milhaud
Avant-Garde
Parade - 1917
Africanist Aesthetic
19. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Rite of Spring - 1913
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Acts of Light - 1981
Grand Pas de Deux
20. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
Charles Didelot
Ronald Brown
Rose Adagio
August Bournonville
21. 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
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Romantic Era
Dance Theater of Harlem
D-Man in the Water - 1989
22. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Petrouchka - 1911
Cleopatre -1909
Africanist Aesthetic
Charles Weidman
23. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Lindy Hop
Denishawn
Merce Cunningham
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
24. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
Ted Shawn
Ruby Keeler
Jose Limon
Jockey Club
25. Choreographed by Paul Taylor; Modern dance work in one act with choreography by Taylor - music by Handel - and lighting by T. Skelton. Premiered 4 Aug. 1962 at Connecticut College - New London - by the Paul Taylor Dance Company with Taylor - Elizabet
Alwin Nikolais
Aureole - 1962
Scheherezade
Choreographers who died of AIDS
26. 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
Divertissement
Lincoln Kirstein
Philip Taglioni
Anna Pavlova
27. 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
Acts of Light - 1981
Talley Beatty
Robert Joffrey
Gus Solomons Jr
28. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Les Sylphides
Alvin Ailey
La Sylphide - 1832
29. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Petipa Styles of Movement
Jean Baptiste Lande
Charles Didelot
Nijinska
30. 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
HIV+
Isadora Duncan
Pilobolus
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
31. 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.
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Parade - 1917
Duet - 1957
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
32. 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.)
Russian Revolution
Anna Pavlova
Jules Perrot
Coca Chanel
33. Sharp powerful movement; angle
The Nutcracker - 1892
Percussive Movement
Robert Joffrey
Pilobolus
34. 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
August Bournonville
Ruby Keeler
Ted Shawn
Gas-lighting and curtain
35. Teacher in Merce's studio Who is remembered for creating a competitive environment filled w/ experimentation for new dance styles
Margaret Sanger
Savoy Ballroom
Robert Ellis Dunn
Theophile Gautier
36. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Ted Shawn
Joffrey Ballet
Fanny Elssler
Lion King - 1998
37. 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
Political Asylum
Dance Theater of Harlem
Swan Lake - 1895
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
38. 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
Grand Pas de Deux
La Sylphide - 1832
Parade - 1917
Merce Cunningham
39. 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
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Ruth St. Denis
Dr. Louis Vernon
Talley Beatty
40. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
The Nutcracker - 1892
Avant-Garde
HIV+
Philip Taglioni
41. (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
Marius Petipa
Coppelia
Fanny Elssler
Alvin Ailey
42. Petipa & Tchaikovsky - was not successful at the time it came out - no trace of sensible dramatic action
Deeply There - 1998
The Nutcracker - 1892
Romantic Era
Charles Weidman
43. 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
Parade - 1917
Cleopatre -1909
Dr. Louis Vernon
Donald McKayle
44. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Imperial Russian Ballet
Grand Pas de Deux
Harlem
45. 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`
AIDS
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Marie Taglioni
Charles Didelot
46. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Paul Taylor
Ted Shawn
Industrial Revolution
Schizophrenia
47. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Imperial Russian Ballet
Diaghilev
Tensile Involvement - 1953
George Balanchine
48. 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
The Art of Making Dances
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Savoy Ballroom
Rudolph Laban
49. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Jockey Club
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Alvin Ailey
50. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Jose Limon
Political Asylum
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Les Sylphides
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