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1. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Robert le Diable
Jules Perrot
Rose Adagio
2. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Mary Wigman
New York City Ballet
Charles Didelot
Ronald Brown
3. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
August Bournonville
Philip Taglioni
Romantic Era
Petrouchka - 1911
4. 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`
Nicholas Brothers
Lindy Hop
Marie Taglioni
Aureole - 1962
5. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Africanist Aesthetic
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Rudolph Nureyev
John Cage
6. 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
Rose Adagio
Eleo Pomare
Katherine Dunham
7. Petipa & Tchaikovsky - was not successful at the time it came out - no trace of sensible dramatic action
The Nutcracker - 1892
Parade - 1917
Nijinsky
D-Man in the Water - 1989
8. Different names but same theater under different political influences
Jeux - 1913
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Schizophrenia
9. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Hanya Holm
Schizophrenia
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Russian Revolution
10. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Leon Bakst
Political Asylum
Les Sylphides
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
11. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Acts of Light - 1981
Anton Dolin
Carlotta Grisi
Prince of Wales
12. 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
Tsar
Cachucha
Acts of Light - 1981
Robert Ellis Dunn
13. 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
Pelvic contraction and release
Donald McKayle
Suzanne Linglor
Margaret Sanger
14. 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
Jules Perrot
Donald McKayle
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Middle Class
15. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Harlem
Industrial Revolution
Diaghilev
Arthur Saint Leon
16. 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
Isadora Duncan
Ulysses Dove
Philip Taglioni
17. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Lion King - 1998
Jockey Club
Russian Revolution
Joe Goode
18. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Pablo Picasso
Charles Weidman
Daughter of the Pharaoh
19. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Pablo Picasso
Grand Pas de Deux
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
20. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Eleo Pomare
Cachucha
Ronald Brown
Pelvic contraction and release
21. Choreography Deeply There
Foyer de la Danse
Charles Didelot
Joe Goode
Alvin Ailey
22. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
Africanist Aesthetic
George Balanchine
Industrial Revolution
Jitterbug
23. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Ulysses Dove
Garth Fagan
Romantic Era
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
24. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Milhaud
Coppelia
Cleopatre -1909
Ulysses Dove
25. 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
Debussy
Marius Petipa
Jockey Club
Merce Cunningham
26. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
George Balanchine
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Apollo - 1928
Ballroom Dance
27. 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
Twyla Tharp
Gas-lighting and curtain
Petipa Styles of Movement
28. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Giselle - 1841
Political Asylum
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Still/Here - 1994
29. 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
Middle Class
Nicholas Brothers
Denishawn
Africanist Aesthetic
30. 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
Robert Ellis Dunn
Margaret Sanger
Four Temperaments - 1946
Acts of Light - 1981
31. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
19th Amendment
Les Noces - 1923
Mary Wigman
Rose Adagio
32. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Mary Wigman
HIV+
Foyer de la Danse
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
33. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Coppelia
New York City Ballet
Dr. Louis Vernon
Middle Class
34. 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
Dance Theater of Harlem
Savoy Ballroom
Africanist Aesthetic
Hanya Holm
35. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Lindy Hop
La Sylphide - 1832
Percussive Movement
Martha Graham
36. 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.)
Anna Pavlova
Divertissement
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Choreographers who died of AIDS
37. 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
Cleopatre -1909
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Ted Shawn
Talley Beatty
38. 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
Robert le Diable
Foyer de la Danse
Ivanov
Massine
39. 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
Mary Wigman
Fokine
Eleo Pomare
Africanist Aesthetic
40. 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
Schizophrenia
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
The Nutcracker - 1892
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
41. 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
Talley Beatty
19th Amendment
George Balanchine
Franco-Prussian War
42. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Pilobolus
Fall and Recovery
Ted Shawn
Apollo - 1928
43. 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)
Rudolph Nureyev
Fall and Recovery
Doris Humphrey
Tsar
44. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
Jitterbug
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Ronald Brown
Tchaikovsky
45. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Harlem
Donald McKayle
Tchaikovsky
46. 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
Divertissement
Aureole - 1962
Debussy
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
47. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Jockey Club
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Pilobolus
Ballroom Dance
48. Radically new or original
Carlotta Grisi
Tchaikovsky
Avant-Garde
Jules Perrot
49. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Industrial Revolution
Coppelia
Leon Bakst
50. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Scheherezade
Still/Here - 1994
Postmodern Dance
Africanist Aesthetic