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Dance History
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1. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
Pelvic contraction and release
Lion King - 1998
Nijinska
Leon Bakst
2. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
La Sylphide - 1832
Apollo - 1928
Mary Wigman
Les Noces - 1923
3. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Postmodern Dance
Agon - 1957
Rose Adagio
Arthur Saint Leon
4. (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
Middle Class
Petipa Styles of Movement
Marius Petipa
Jean Baptiste Lande
5. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Margaret Sanger
Coca Chanel
Divertissement
George Balanchine
6. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Arthur Mitchell
Jockey Club
Scheherezade
Denishawn
7. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
Ronald Brown
Agon - 1957
Louis Horst
Garth Fagan
8. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Arthur Saint Leon
Margaret Sanger
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Rudolph Laban
9. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Ballet Russes
Jose Limon
Stravinsky
Postmodern Dance
10. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Jitterbug
Marie Taglioni
Doris Humphrey
Cleopatre -1909
11. 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
Gus Solomons Jr
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Ballet Russes
12. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
Massine
New York City Ballet
Daughter of the Pharaoh
19th Amendment
13. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Parade - 1917
George Balanchine
Les Noces - 1923
Still/Here - 1994
14. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Martha Graham
Harlem
Denishawn
Ruth St. Denis
15. 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.
Jockey Club
Theophile Gautier
Loie Fuller
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
16. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Paul Taylor
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Gas-lighting and curtain
Jean Coralli
17. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
Savoy Ballroom
HIV+
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Choreographers who died of AIDS
18. 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)
Giselle - 1841
La Sylphide - 1832
John Cage
Dr. Louis Vernon
19. 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
Mary Wigman
Marius Petipa
Divertissement
Nijinsky
20. 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
Katherine Dunham
Merce Cunningham
Paul Taylor
Acts of Light - 1981
21. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
Shirley Temple
Tap Dance
Alwin Nikolais
Harlem
22. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
The Dying Swan - 1905
The Nutcracker - 1892
Jose Limon
Coppelia
23. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Debussy
Scheherezade
Political Asylum
Coca Chanel
24. 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
Parade - 1917
Petrouchka - 1911
Hip-hop
Merce Cunningham
25. A Colombian-American modern dance choreographer known for his politically-charged productions depicting the black experience - notable productions include Missa Luba in 1965 - Blues for the Jungle in 1966 (portraying life in Harlem) - Las Desenamorad
Rose Adagio
Savoy Ballroom
Middle Class
Eleo Pomare
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
Theophile Gautier
Donald McKayle
Jean Coralli
Lincoln Kirstein
27. 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
Jose Limon
Doris Humphrey
Denishawn
La Sylphide - 1832
28. 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
George Balanchine
Buddy Dean Show
Anna Pavlova
29. Broke color barrier - developed stair dance - danced with Shirley Temple - made 'honorary mayor of Harlem' -
30. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Denishawn
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Schizophrenia
Petipa Styles of Movement
31. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Talley Beatty
Jeux - 1913
Coca Chanel
Busby Berkeley
32. 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
John Cage
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Divertissement
33. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
Jitterbug
Jockey Club
Robert le Diable
Jean Baptiste Lande
34. 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.
Leon Bakst
Twyla Tharp
Martha Graham
Africanist Aesthetic
35. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Les Sylphides
Shirley Temple
Debussy
Anton Dolin
36. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Martha Graham
Margaret Sanger
Savoy Ballroom
The Dying Swan - 1905
37. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Schizophrenia
Lion King - 1998
Judson Church
Parade - 1917
38. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
Doris Humphrey
Parade - 1917
New York City Ballet
Katherine Dunham
39. 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
Ted Shawn
Jeux - 1913
Divertissement
Fall and Recovery
40. 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.
Avant-Garde
Shirley Temple
Garth Fagan
Katherine Dunham
41. 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
John Cage
Apollo - 1928
Foyer de la Danse
Prince of Wales
42. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Avant-Garde
Suzanne Linglor
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Middle Class
43. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Jean Coralli
Tsar
Lion King - 1998
Fall and Recovery
44. 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
Jitterbug
Ivanov
Nijinska
John Cage
45. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Petipa Styles of Movement
Coca Chanel
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
46. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Percussive Movement
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Pablo Picasso
Ballet Russes
47. 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
Political Asylum
Four Temperaments - 1946
Jean Coralli
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
48. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Four Temperaments - 1946
Deeply There - 1998
Dr. Louis Vernon
Joffrey Ballet
49. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Alvin Ailey
Joffrey Ballet
Robert Joffrey
Twyla Tharp
50. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Duet - 1957
Industrial Revolution
The Art of Making Dances
Lincoln Kirstein