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Dance History
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1. 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
Lindy Hop
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Parade - 1917
2. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Arthur Mitchell
Stravinsky
Milhaud
3. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Gas-lighting and curtain
The Art of Making Dances
Avant-Garde
The Dying Swan - 1905
4. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
Coca Chanel
Percussive Movement
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Diaghilev
5. 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
George Balanchine
Jean Baptiste Lande
Acts of Light - 1981
Rudolph Laban
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
Martha Graham
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Paul Taylor
Lindy Hop
7. 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
Nijinska
Margaret Sanger
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Judson Church
8. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
Savoy Ballroom
Ulysses Dove
Nicholas Brothers
The Dying Swan - 1905
9. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Savoy Ballroom
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Postmodern Dance
Jose Limon
10. 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`
Marie Taglioni
Katherine Dunham
Gas-lighting and curtain
Fanny Elssler
11. 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
Doris Humphrey
Dance Theater of Harlem
Fokine
Middle Class
12. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Cleopatre -1909
Robert Ellis Dunn
Ivanov
13. 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
Judson Church
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Prince of Wales
Hanya Holm
14. A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
Eleo Pomare
AIDS
Tsar
Fokine
15. 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
Jeux - 1913
Ivanov
HIV+
Daughter of the Pharaoh
16. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Harlem
Ted Shawn
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Paul Taylor
17. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
August Bournonville
HIV+
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Africanist Aesthetic
18. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Busby Berkeley
Agon - 1957
Fanny Elssler
Milhaud
19. 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
Rose Adagio
Ronald Brown
Donald McKayle
Ballroom Dance
20. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
Jules Perrot
Franco-Prussian War
Jitterbug
Donald McKayle
21. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Robert Joffrey
Swan Lake - 1895
Russian Revolution
The Dying Swan - 1905
22. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Four Temperaments - 1946
Isadora Duncan
Twyla Tharp
23. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Katherine Dunham
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Paul Taylor
24. Choreography Deeply There
Prince of Wales
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Joe Goode
Bill T. Jones
25. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Buddy Dean Show
Charles Didelot
Diaghilev
Four Temperaments - 1946
26. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Ballet Russes
Middle Class
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Ulysses Dove
27. 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
Shirley Temple
Merce Cunningham
Mary Wigman
Les Sylphides
28. 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
Nijinsky
John Cage
Rudolph Laban
Ted Shawn
29. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
Twyla Tharp
Dr. Louis Vernon
Charles Didelot
Ruby Keeler
30. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Pablo Picasso
Arthur Saint Leon
Marie Taglioni
Mikhail Baryshnikov
31. One of the artistic giants of the twentieth century. Helped found the Cubist and Abstract movements. During his life - 1881-1973 - he worked in various media and is noted for scores of important works. His painting Guernica is one of the most powerfu
Pablo Picasso
Still/Here - 1994
Rudolph Laban
Martha Graham
32. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
Anton Dolin
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Coppelia
33. 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
Shirley Temple
Nijinska
American Ballet Theater
Hip-hop
34. Sharp powerful movement; angle
Lion King - 1998
Theophile Gautier
Percussive Movement
Still/Here - 1994
35. Reform Russian Ballet - choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova (2 minutes long) - accused of being influenced by Isadora Duncan - teacher & choreographer rather than a refined dancer
Ronald Brown
Fokine
Ruby Keeler
Pelvic contraction and release
36. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
Scheherezade
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Pelvic contraction and release
Anton Dolin
37. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Percussive Movement
Lindy Hop
Ted Shawn
38. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Milhaud
George Balanchine
Foyer de la Danse
Grand Pas de Deux
39. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Ulysses Dove
Prince of Wales
Diaghilev
Nijinsky
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.
19th Amendment
Swan Lake - 1895
Nijinsky
Shirley Temple
41. 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
Black Swan Pas de Deux
New York City Ballet
Four Temperaments - 1946
Louis Horst
42. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
August Bournonville
Still/Here - 1994
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Jeux - 1913
43. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Imperial Russian Ballet
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Dr. Louis Vernon
Jean Baptiste Lande
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
Tsar
Jockey Club
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Theophile Gautier
45. 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
Acts of Light - 1981
Petipa Styles of Movement
Nicholas Brothers
Eleo Pomare
46. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Prince of Wales
Postmodern Dance
Divertissement
Talley Beatty
47. 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
Aureole - 1962
HIV+
Arthur Mitchell
48. 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.
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Loie Fuller
Avant-Garde
Acts of Light - 1981
49. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Robert le Diable
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Ruth St. Denis
Milhaud
50. 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
Agon - 1957
Scheherezade
Middle Class
Doris Humphrey