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Dance History
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1. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Divertissement
Rite of Spring - 1913
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
The Nutcracker - 1892
2. 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
Robert le Diable
Ivanov
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Nijinsky
3. 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
Hanya Holm
Garth Fagan
Stravinsky
Theophile Gautier
4. Height of Romantic Ballet - Star: Carlotta Grisi - Choreographer: Jules Perrot (Carlotta's lover) & Jean Coralli - Written by: Gautier (Who was in love with Grisi) - Act I (sunlit) - Act II (moonlit)
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Ted Shawn
Arthur Mitchell
Giselle - 1841
5. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Divertissement
Alvin Ailey
Deeply There - 1998
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
6. First book of choreography; published posthumously in 1959
Avant-Garde
HIV+
The Art of Making Dances
Mary Wigman
7. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Katherine Dunham
Harlem
Jitterbug
Arthur Mitchell
8. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
Dr. Louis Vernon
Katherine Dunham
Charles Weidman
Percussive Movement
9. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Agon - 1957
Jockey Club
Ted Shawn
Carlotta Grisi
10. 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.
Shirley Temple
Charles Didelot
Ruby Keeler
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
11. 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
Middle Class
George Balanchine
Apollo - 1928
Milhaud
12. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Philip Taglioni
Ruth St. Denis
Acts of Light - 1981
Rose Adagio
13. By Martha Graham - focuses on technique - used technique as her own language - inspired by when she moved to Santa Barbara as a child - choneo - straight out of technique class - running on the cliffs of Santa Barbara and the development of her techn
Acts of Light - 1981
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Rite of Spring - 1913
Coppelia
14. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Mary Wigman
Lindy Hop
Twyla Tharp
Jean Baptiste Lande
15. Child actress could dance and sing very well - was able to keep up with Bill Robinson in tap dancing - was seen as the hope during the Great Depression.
Gus Solomons Jr
Shirley Temple
Fall and Recovery
Bill T. Jones
16. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Ulysses Dove
Garth Fagan
Harlem
Imperial Russian Ballet
17. 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.
Scheherezade
New York City Ballet
Duet - 1957
Anna Pavlova
18. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
Lion King - 1998
Jose Limon
Four Temperaments - 1946
Doris Humphrey
19. Different styles: 1. hoofers: Gregory Hines - Savion Glover - intricate footwork 2. class acts: Fred Astaire - Ginger Rodgers - refined and elegant 3. flash acts: tap with acrobatics 4. soft shoe: skimming floor - producing soft & muted steps
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Stravinsky
Tap Dance
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
20. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Pablo Picasso
Russian Revolution
The Nutcracker - 1892
Shirley Temple
21. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Lion King - 1998
Suzanne Linglor
Anton Dolin
Les Sylphides
22. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Alwin Nikolais
Gas-lighting and curtain
Isadora Duncan
Russian Revolution
23. 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
Katherine Dunham
Ballroom Dance
Avant-Garde
24. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Suzanne Linglor
Milhaud
Charles Weidman
Tsar
25. 1937 Founded by Ballet Russe's Mikhail Mordkin as Mordkin Ballet- Repertory company- features choreography of many artists such as Adolph Bolm - Michel Fokine - Leonide Massine - Bronislava Jijinska - Balanchine and Agnes de Mille
Hip-hop
Ulysses Dove
American Ballet Theater
Carlotta Grisi
26. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
Romantic Era
Les Sylphides
Twyla Tharp
Dr. Louis Vernon
27. Different names but same theater under different political influences
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Jockey Club
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Jean Jacques Rousseau
28. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Loie Fuller
Ballroom Dance
Nijinska
Milhaud
29. 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
Jean Baptiste Lande
Ulysses Dove
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Lincoln Kirstein
30. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Africanist Aesthetic
Merce Cunningham
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Jean Jacques Rousseau
31. Comedy - has sport movements - about a train taken to the beach where a plane flies over - spoof about Frenchman who wants to be very shallow American
Grand Pas de Deux
Le Train Bleu - 1924
August Bournonville
Mikhail Baryshnikov
32. 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
Aureole - 1962
Duet - 1957
Marius Petipa
Tsar
33. Was listed as the choreographer because He was widely respected - was known Perrot (more gifted) was collaborating with him; Choreographed the corps for Giselle
Nijinska
August Bournonville
Petrouchka - 1911
Jean Coralli
34. Confirmed that Balanchine was an experimentalist - Africanist principles in his rhythmic scores - turns not resolved as in ballet - they just stop - take 'one' counts rather than 'and' counts
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jockey Club
Apollo - 1928
Ruth St. Denis
35. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Rite of Spring - 1913
HIV+
Ballroom Dance
36. 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
Paul Taylor
Jeux - 1913
Nijinska
Avant-Garde
37. Choreography Deeply There
Middle Class
Russian Revolution
Joe Goode
Isadora Duncan
38. 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
Alvin Ailey
Nijinsky
Leon Bakst
39. Inspired by Gautier's novel The Story of the Mummy - very complicated - spectacular - successful ballet - Aspica is the daughter - English Lord in sand storm goes into tomb & gets put into an opium dream where he becomes Tahor and saves Aspico from a
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Rudolph Nureyev
Twyla Tharp
Daughter of the Pharaoh
40. 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
AIDS
Anton Dolin
La Sylphide - 1832
Debussy
41. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
Fall and Recovery
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Jitterbug
Swan Lake - 1895
42. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Pilobolus
Milhaud
Louis Horst
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
43. 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
Merce Cunningham
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Grand Pas de Deux
44. Petipa & Tchaikovsky - was not successful at the time it came out - no trace of sensible dramatic action
The Nutcracker - 1892
Schizophrenia
Merce Cunningham
Franco-Prussian War
45. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
Katherine Dunham
Denishawn
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Jitterbug
46. 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
Savoy Ballroom
Ruth St. Denis
Fanny Elssler
Fokine
47. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Hip-hop
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Fanny Elssler
Choreographers who died of AIDS
48. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Leon Bakst
Tchaikovsky
Agon - 1957
Foyer de la Danse
49. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Coca Chanel
Imperial Russian Ballet
50. 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
The Art of Making Dances
Percussive Movement
John Cage