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Dance History
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1. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Tsar
Still/Here - 1994
The Dying Swan - 1905
Industrial Revolution
2. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Cachucha
Garth Fagan
Les Noces - 1923
Ted Shawn
3. 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
Postmodern Dance
Dance Theater of Harlem
Coca Chanel
Gas-lighting and curtain
4. Designer. Influenced by Greek and Asian art. Costumes and sets full of bold colors. Decorative motifs that employed perspective painting. Successful with ballet. 'sophisticated eclecticism'. Teacher.
Grand Pas de Deux
Milhaud
Charles Didelot
Leon Bakst
5. 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.
Tsar
Theophile Gautier
Loie Fuller
Robert le Diable
6. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
Paul Taylor
Anton Dolin
HIV+
Shirley Temple
7. 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
Franco-Prussian War
Arthur Mitchell
Isadora Duncan
Arthur Saint Leon
8. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Rite of Spring - 1913
Parade - 1917
19th Amendment
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
9. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Pelvic contraction and release
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Imperial Russian Ballet
American Ballet Theater
10. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Alwin Nikolais
Africanist Aesthetic
Isadora Duncan
Robert Joffrey
11. 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
Stravinsky
Lion King - 1998
Massine
Tsar
12. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Romantic Era
Ruby Keeler
13. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
Suzanne Linglor
19th Amendment
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Petrouchka - 1911
14. First book of choreography; published posthumously in 1959
The Art of Making Dances
Four Temperaments - 1946
Massine
Fanny Elssler
15. 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
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Jean Jacques Rousseau
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Denishawn
16. 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
Divertissement
Pilobolus
Fall and Recovery
Merce Cunningham
17. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Tap Dance
Milhaud
Industrial Revolution
Pelvic contraction and release
18. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Lindy Hop
Robert Joffrey
Les Noces - 1923
Franco-Prussian War
19. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Lion King - 1998
George Balanchine
Coca Chanel
Jitterbug
20. Different names but same theater under different political influences
Massine
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Arthur Mitchell
21. Choreography Deeply There
Jean Baptiste Lande
Joe Goode
Jitterbug
Jockey Club
22. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Suzanne Linglor
Robert le Diable
Parade - 1917
HIV+
23. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Suzanne Linglor
Divertissement
Postmodern Dance
24. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Grand Pas de Deux
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Avant-Garde
25. American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City - she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the
Doris Humphrey
Margaret Sanger
Martha Graham
George Balanchine
26. 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
Dance Theater of Harlem
La Sylphide - 1832
Fall and Recovery
New York City Ballet
27. 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
Judson Church
Donald McKayle
Divertissement
Alwin Nikolais
28. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Jean Baptiste Lande
August Bournonville
Robert Joffrey
Hanya Holm
29. 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
Jitterbug
Alvin Ailey
Duet - 1957
Hanya Holm
30. 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.
Foyer de la Danse
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Ulysses Dove
The Nutcracker - 1892
31. Broke color barrier - developed stair dance - danced with Shirley Temple - made 'honorary mayor of Harlem' -
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32. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
Jockey Club
Ronald Brown
Alwin Nikolais
Hip-hop
33. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Doris Humphrey
Petipa Styles of Movement
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jules Perrot
34. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Africanist Aesthetic
HIV+
Pilobolus
Pablo Picasso
35. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Carlotta Grisi
Denishawn
Theophile Gautier
Arthur Mitchell
36. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
Charles Weidman
Alwin Nikolais
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Ronald Brown
37. Started in NYC by Robert Joffrey - small company - repertoire was eclectic and contemporary - reconstructed works from Diaghilev's Ballets Russes - Financially weak - often folded - moved to LA then chicago
Lincoln Kirstein
Joffrey Ballet
Garth Fagan
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
38. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Alwin Nikolais
Denishawn
Mary Wigman
39. 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
Parade - 1917
Nijinska
Robert Joffrey
Hanya Holm
40. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Ruby Keeler
Diaghilev
41. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Pablo Picasso
Acts of Light - 1981
Martha Graham
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
42. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Lion King - 1998
Harlem
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Judson Church
43. (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
Alvin Ailey
Avant-Garde
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Louis Horst
44. 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
Lion King - 1998
Avant-Garde
New York City Ballet
45. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Martha Graham
Rose Adagio
Tchaikovsky
Marie Taglioni
46. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
La Sylphide - 1832
Gas-lighting and curtain
The Art of Making Dances
Stravinsky
47. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
The Dying Swan - 1905
American Ballet Theater
Rudolph Nureyev
Pablo Picasso
48. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Leon Bakst
Jockey Club
Anton Dolin
Petipa Styles of Movement
49. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
Eleo Pomare
New York City Ballet
Ulysses Dove
Imperial Russian Ballet
50. 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
Diaghilev
The Art of Making Dances
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Grand Pas de Deux