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Dance Famous People
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer
Arthur Saint-Leon
Jose Limon
Jean Baptiste Lande
Jules Perrot
2. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Jose Limon
Diaghilev
Busby Berkeley
Robert Joffrey
3. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Robert Joffrey
Louis Horst
Balanchine
Merce Cunningham
4. Choreographed Jeux
Rudolph Laban
Joe Goode
Nijinsky
Jean Coralli
5. First male dancer to make an impression in U.S.
Rudolph Nureyev
Marius Petipa
Jules Perrot
Balanchine
6. Noted for his use of African elements
Alvin Ailey
Leon Bakst
Jean Baptiste Lande
Merce Cunningham
7. Known for her 'Pagan' style of dance
Louis Horst
Hanya Holm
Arthur Mitchell
Fanny Elssler
8. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German dance to U.S. but Americanized her technique.
Hanya Holm
Alvin Ailey
Arthur Saint-Leon
Paul Taylor
9. Choreographed Coppelia
Hanya Holm
Nijinska
Arthur Saint-Leon
Charles Didelot
10. African American modern Dance choreographer
Ruth St. Denis
Lucien Petipa
Bill T. Jones
Rudolph Nureyev
11. Developed new ways to use light and movement in her choreography
Loie Fuller
Pilobolus
August Bournonville
Louis Horst
12. Choreographed 'Revelations'
Nijinska
Diaghilev
Alvin Ailey
Philip Taglioni
13. Wrote against male dancers
Fokine
Anton Dolin
Ruby Keeler
Theophile Gautier
14. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Dr. Louis Vernon
Ruth St. Denis
Nijinska
Garth Fagan
15. First lady of modern dance
Merce Cunningham
Busby Berkeley
Ruth St. Denis
Robert Ellis Dunn
16. D Man in the Water
Bill T. Jones
Nijinska
Paul Taylor
Busby Berkeley
17. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Nijinska
Leon Bakst
Robert Joffrey
Alwin Nikolais
18. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Alwin Nikolais
Balanchine
Louis Horst
Arthur Saint-Leon
19. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Twyla Tharp
Leon Bakst
Theophile Gautier
Ivanov
20. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Ruth St. Denis
Paul Taylor
Massine
Charles Didelot
21. Named the mother of modern dance
Alvin Ailey
Nijinsky
Mary Wigman
Doris Humphrey
22. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Garth Fagan
Bill T. Jones
Paul Taylor
Mary Wigman
23. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Mary Wigman
Mary Wigman
Fokine
Pilobolus
24. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Robert Ellis Dunn
Anton Dolin
August Bournonville
Milhaud
25. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Marius Petipa
Arthur Mitchell
Lincoln Kirstein
Margaret Sanger
26. La Spectre de la Rose
Mary Wigman
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Pilobolus
Folkine - Nijinsky
27. Financed Balanchine to come to US - helped found New York City Ballet - served as general director
Rudolph Nureyev
Lincoln Kirstein
Jean Coralli
Ruth St. Denis
28. Rite of Spring
Marie Taglioni
Nijinska
Nijinsky
Marius Petipa
29. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Bill T. Jones
Robert Ellis Dunn
Ginger Rogers
Debussy
30. Musician who had an impact on Modern Dance -Created choreography at Merce Cunningham's Studio
Robert Ellis Dunn
Jules Perrot
Mary Wigman
Diaghilev
31. 1st Albrecht
Diaghilev
Lucien Petipa
George Balanchine
Louis Horst
32. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Bill T. Jones
Theophile Gautier
Jules Perrot
Alwin Nikolais
33. Professional tennis player Who was known for using ballet skills on the court
Merce Cunningham
Nijinska
Suzanne Linglor
Nijinsky
34. Movement in hips
Arthur Mitchell
Paul Taylor
Fanny Elssler
Anna Pavlova
35. Defected from Russia to US -Greatest danseur of the 20th century.
Merce Cunningham
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Balanchine
Marius Petipa
36. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Anna Pavlova
Charles Didelot
Jean Baptiste Lande
Louis Horst
37. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Louis Horst
Diaghilev
Loie Fuller
Busby Berkeley
38. Designed costumes and set of Afternoon of a Faune
Leon Bakst
Bill T. Jones
Nijinska
Nijinsky
39. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Lincoln Kirstein
August Bournonville
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Hanya Holm
40. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Milhaud
Theophile Gautier
Marius Petipa
Diaghilev
41. Father of classical ballet
Hanya Holm
Arthur Saint-Leon
Marius Petipa
Debussy
42. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Mary Wigman
Loie Fuller
Fokine
Balanchine
43. Known for brilliant divertissments
Fokine
Merce Cunningham
Arthur Saint-Leon
Robert Ellis Dunn
44. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Twyla Tharp
August Bournonville
Rudolph Nureyev
Ruth St. Denis
45. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Folkine - Nijinsky
Milhaud
Massine
Paul Taylor
46. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Charles Weidman
Arthur Saint-Leon
Rudolph Nureyev
Merce Cunningham
47. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Theophile Gautier
Hanya Holm
Mary Wigman
Louis Horst
48. Founded American Dance Theater in New York City
Marius Petipa
Robert Joffrey
Marius Petipa
Alvin Ailey
49. The art of making dances - 1959
Pilobolus
Doris Humphrey
Charles Didelot
Lincoln Kirstein
50. Brought ballet to Paris
Nijinska
Anton Dolin
Massine
Diaghilev