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Dance History
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1. 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.
Fanny Elssler
Duet - 1957
Bill T. Jones
The Nutcracker - 1892
2. 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.
Hip-hop
Divertissement
Rite of Spring - 1913
Foyer de la Danse
3. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
New York City Ballet
Rose Adagio
Harlem
Charles Weidman
4. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Charles Weidman
Isadora Duncan
Dr. Louis Vernon
5. A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
Carlotta Grisi
AIDS
Tchaikovsky
Shirley Temple
6. 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
Jeux - 1913
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Alvin Ailey
7. 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
Denishawn
Ruby Keeler
Coca Chanel
Marie Taglioni
8. 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)
Twyla Tharp
Giselle - 1841
Coca Chanel
Alvin Ailey
9. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Arthur Mitchell
Louis Horst
Schizophrenia
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
10. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Ulysses Dove
Philip Taglioni
Romantic Era
Choreographers who died of AIDS
11. In charge of new Paris Opera; under his direction - Paris Opera made a profit for the only time in its existence; slashed salaries of ballerinas to force them into mistresshood for fellow Jockey's
Shirley Temple
Alvin Ailey
La Sylphide - 1832
Dr. Louis Vernon
12. Music that combines spoken street dialect with cuts (samples) from older records and bears the influences of social politics - male boasting - and comic lyrics carried forward from blues - R&b - soul and rock and roll
Lindy Hop
Prince of Wales
Hip-hop
Doris Humphrey
13. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Busby Berkeley
Acts of Light - 1981
Lindy Hop
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
14. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Joffrey Ballet
Cleopatre -1909
Arthur Saint Leon
Jules Perrot
15. Published in London Times 1914 - want to make 'ballet a fully expressive art that mirrored life' - new movement for each dance - no mime (Petipa used so that the audience always understood) - use entire body (to be expressive) - no divertissement (no
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16. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Nijinska
Busby Berkeley
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Rose Adagio
17. 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
Judson Church
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Ballet Russes
18. Choreography Deeply There
Eleo Pomare
Joe Goode
Twyla Tharp
Merce Cunningham
19. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Parade - 1917
Gas-lighting and curtain
Jean Baptiste Lande
New York City Ballet
20. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
La Sylphide - 1832
Nicholas Brothers
August Bournonville
AIDS
21. (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
American Ballet Theater
Deeply There - 1998
Leon Bakst
Marius Petipa
22. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Robert Ellis Dunn
Grand Pas de Deux
Postmodern Dance
23. Radically new or original
Avant-Garde
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Franco-Prussian War
Paul Taylor
24. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Foyer de la Danse
Louis Horst
Coca Chanel
Coppelia
25. 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.
Arthur Mitchell
Political Asylum
Margaret Sanger
Loie Fuller
26. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Robert le Diable
Ronald Brown
Daughter of the Pharaoh
27. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
Rite of Spring - 1913
Fokine
Katherine Dunham
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
28. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Loie Fuller
Hip-hop
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Postmodern Dance
29. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Swan Lake - 1895
Gas-lighting and curtain
30. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Lincoln Kirstein
Charles Didelot
Jose Limon
The Dying Swan - 1905
31. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Africanist Aesthetic
Imperial Russian Ballet
Still/Here - 1994
Denishawn
32. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Avant-Garde
Ruth St. Denis
Agon - 1957
Ulysses Dove
33. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
John Cage
Ballroom Dance
Anton Dolin
Ruby Keeler
34. 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`
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Dance Theater of Harlem
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Marie Taglioni
35. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Agon - 1957
Theophile Gautier
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
36. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Louis Horst
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Rudolph Nureyev
Fall and Recovery
37. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Dr. Louis Vernon
Martha Graham
Robert Joffrey
Petrouchka - 1911
38. 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
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Aureole - 1962
39. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Harlem
Arthur Saint Leon
Loie Fuller
Russian Revolution
40. 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
Ballroom Dance
Shirley Temple
Nicholas Brothers
Parade - 1917
41. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Rite of Spring - 1913
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Lindy Hop
Milhaud
42. 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
Judson Church
Robert le Diable
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
43. 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.)
Leon Bakst
Anna Pavlova
19th Amendment
Judson Church
44. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Theophile Gautier
Ronald Brown
HIV+
45. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Mary Wigman
Gas-lighting and curtain
The Art of Making Dances
Garth Fagan
46. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Paul Taylor
Political Asylum
Coppelia
47. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Arthur Saint Leon
Scheherezade
Tsar
Dr. Louis Vernon
48. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Suzanne Linglor
Nicholas Brothers
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Africanist Aesthetic
49. 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
Buddy Dean Show
Swan Lake - 1895
Suzanne Linglor
Petrouchka - 1911
50. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Joe Goode
Rudolph Laban
Prince of Wales
Garth Fagan