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Dance History
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1. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
Gus Solomons Jr
Jose Limon
Donald McKayle
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
2. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Talley Beatty
Les Noces - 1923
3. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Jockey Club
Harlem
Shirley Temple
Charles Weidman
4. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Alvin Ailey
Ruth St. Denis
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Shirley Temple
5. 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.)
Arthur Saint Leon
Robert le Diable
Joe Goode
Anna Pavlova
6. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Les Sylphides
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Rose Adagio
7. 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
Divertissement
Eleo Pomare
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Ballroom Dance
8. High energy act of two African american brothers - Fayard and Harold - had a 'flash act' consisting of an acrobatic tap style - were in movies - only African Americans encouraged to mingle with audience (by audeince demand)
Nicholas Brothers
Divertissement
Marius Petipa
Anton Dolin
9. 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
Dr. Louis Vernon
Charles Weidman
Gus Solomons Jr
Rudolph Laban
10. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Aureole - 1962
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Arthur Saint Leon
Four Temperaments - 1946
11. Work written at a time when one of Jones' company dancers - Demian Acquavella - nicknamed D-Man - was suffering from AIDS; a celebratory - affectionate work about the company defiantly remaining joyful - loving - productive - and cohesive in the face
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Fokine
AIDS
The Art of Making Dances
12. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Arthur Saint Leon
Rudolph Laban
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Nijinska
13. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Louis Horst
Imperial Russian Ballet
Grand Pas de Deux
Schizophrenia
14. 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
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Martha Graham
Schizophrenia
Ballet Russes
15. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Les Sylphides
Gas-lighting and curtain
Lincoln Kirstein
16. 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
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Busby Berkeley
Acts of Light - 1981
Savoy Ballroom
17. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Petipa Styles of Movement
Coppelia
Les Sylphides
Gas-lighting and curtain
18. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Romantic Era
Pablo Picasso
Busby Berkeley
Petipa Styles of Movement
19. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Louis Horst
Russian Revolution
Ronald Brown
20. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Milhaud
Industrial Revolution
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Les Sylphides
21. 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
Lincoln Kirstein
Anna Pavlova
Nijinsky
Hip-hop
22. 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
Harlem
Middle Class
Robert le Diable
Agon - 1957
23. 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
Rudolph Nureyev
Petipa Styles of Movement
Jitterbug
Eleo Pomare
24. 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
Donald McKayle
Jose Limon
Percussive Movement
Busby Berkeley
25. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Marius Petipa
Petrouchka - 1911
Buddy Dean Show
Paul Taylor
26. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Scheherezade
Garth Fagan
Cachucha
Schizophrenia
27. 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.
The Nutcracker - 1892
Tap Dance
Jitterbug
Loie Fuller
28. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Paul Taylor
The Dying Swan - 1905
Joffrey Ballet
29. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Lion King - 1998
Margaret Sanger
Petrouchka - 1911
30. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958); Established the Choreographic Institute in Zurich - Founded branches across Europe - Kinetographie Laban=labanotation - primary movement - notation stilled used today in dance - Conte
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Ballet Russes
Rudolph Laban
31. 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
Ivanov
Donald McKayle
Swan Lake - 1895
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
32. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Cleopatre -1909
Pablo Picasso
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Leon Bakst
33. 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
Rose Adagio
Apollo - 1928
Swan Lake - 1895
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
34. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
Jockey Club
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Buddy Dean Show
Denishawn
35. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Jean Coralli
Political Asylum
Schizophrenia
Gus Solomons Jr
36. 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.
Carlotta Grisi
Scheherezade
Robert Ellis Dunn
Duet - 1957
37. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Apollo - 1928
Jean Baptiste Lande
Four Temperaments - 1946
Carlotta Grisi
38. (1819-1899) -Italian ballerina -Leading role in Giselle -Combined techniques of Taglioni & Elssler -Known for strength & lightness
Denishawn
Africanist Aesthetic
Debussy
Carlotta Grisi
39. 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
George Balanchine
Merce Cunningham
Margaret Sanger
Le Train Bleu - 1924
40. 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
Ivanov
Charles Didelot
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Four Temperaments - 1946
41. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Fall and Recovery
The Dying Swan - 1905
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Leon Bakst
42. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Deeply There - 1998
Coppelia
Carlotta Grisi
43. 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
Fokine
Four Temperaments - 1946
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Robert Ellis Dunn
44. 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
Nijinsky
Tsar
Anna Pavlova
AIDS
45. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Charles Weidman
August Bournonville
Fokine
Postmodern Dance
46. Choreographed by Paul Taylor; Modern dance work in one act with choreography by Taylor - music by Handel - and lighting by T. Skelton. Premiered 4 Aug. 1962 at Connecticut College - New London - by the Paul Taylor Dance Company with Taylor - Elizabet
Shirley Temple
Aureole - 1962
Jockey Club
Parade - 1917
47. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
Charles Weidman
Jean Coralli
Prince of Wales
Duet - 1957
48. Sharp powerful movement; angle
Russian Revolution
Gas-lighting and curtain
Franco-Prussian War
Percussive Movement
49. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Lindy Hop
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Pablo Picasso
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
50. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Russian Revolution
Four Temperaments - 1946
Romantic Era
Massine