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Dance Famous People
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1. Danced in Berkeley's movies - First movie dancing star of 1930's 42nd street led to her success
Nijinska
Ruby Keeler
Charles Didelot
Diaghilev
2. Shortened skirt to show off pointe work - starred in La Sylphide
Charles Didelot
Suzanne Linglor
Marie Taglioni
Jean Coralli
3. REBELLED AGAINST IDEA THAT DANCE HAD TO HAVE MEANING
Mary Wigman
Fred Astaire
Merce Cunningham
Anton Dolin
4. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Nijinsky
Fanny Elssler
Busby Berkeley
Doris Humphrey
5. Apollo - 1928
Leon Bakst
Hanya Holm
Ivanov
Balanchine
6. Movement in hips
Arthur Mitchell
Nijinska
Twyla Tharp
Garth Fagan
7. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Charles Didelot
Merce Cunningham
Arthur Mitchell
Robert Ellis Dunn
8. Brought ballet to Paris
Marius Petipa
Diaghilev
Ruby Keeler
Balanchine
9. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Charles Didelot
Merce Cunningham
Theophile Gautier
Arthur Mitchell
10. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Leon Bakst
Ruth St. Denis
Lucien Petipa
Twyla Tharp
11. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet
Louis Horst
Anton Dolin
Twyla Tharp
Alvin Ailey
12. Financed Balanchine to come to US - helped found New York City Ballet - served as general director
Balanchine
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Lincoln Kirstein
Arthur Mitchell
13. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Theophile Gautier
Robert Ellis Dunn
Hanya Holm
Nijinska
14. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Milhaud
Charles Weidman
Pilobolus
Nijinska
15. Brought ballet to the common person
Nijinsky
Rudolph Laban
Anna Pavlova
Doris Humphrey
16. Played Swanilda in Coppelia
Rudolph Nureyev
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Charles Weidman
Suzanne Linglor
17. Choreographed La Sylphide
Marius Petipa
Suzanne Linglor
Fokine
Philip Taglioni
18. Defected from Russia to US -Greatest danseur of the 20th century.
Doris Humphrey
Robert Ellis Dunn
Balanchine
Mikhail Baryshnikov
19. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German dance to U.S. but Americanized her technique.
Debussy
Hanya Holm
Folkine - Nijinsky
Leon Bakst
20. D Man in the Water
Theophile Gautier
Arthur Mitchell
Bill T. Jones
Merce Cunningham
21. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Nijinska
Hanya Holm
Bill T. Jones
Balanchine
22. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Fanny Elssler
Diaghilev
Marius Petipa
Theophile Gautier
23. Starred in Prince of Whales
Marius Petipa
Merce Cunningham
Anton Dolin
Milhaud
24. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Garth Fagan
Rudolph Nureyev
Busby Berkeley
Merce Cunningham
25. Choregraphed (the sleeping beauty and nutcracker - swan lake)
Nijinsky
Balanchine
Marius Petipa
Nijinska
26. AVANT GARDE -CHOREOGRAPHED AUREOLE
Mary Wigman
Fokine
Balanchine
Paul Taylor
27. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Arthur Mitchell
Folkine - Nijinsky
Charles Didelot
Twyla Tharp
28. Launched careers of 5 great choreographers
Busby Berkeley
Fanny Elssler
Diaghilev
Debussy
29. Co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet
Bill T. Jones
Nijinska
George Balanchine
Alvin Ailey
30. Named the mother of modern dance
Mary Wigman
Lucien Petipa
Ivanov
Charles Weidman
31. Choreographed Lion King
Garth Fagan
Busby Berkeley
Fokine
Debussy
32. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Jules Perrot
Loie Fuller
Fokine
August Bournonville
33. Impressionist music
Arthur Saint-Leon
Leon Bakst
Debussy
Nijinska
34. Agon - 1957
Nijinska
Balanchine
Nijinsky
Pilobolus
35. First lady of modern dance
Anna Pavlova
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Robert Ellis Dunn
Ruth St. Denis
36. Acts of Light
Martha Graham
Nijinsky
Anton Dolin
Robert Joffrey
37. Known for two ballet styles of Symphonic ballet: comedic and satirical
Massine
Louis Horst
Arthur Mitchell
Loie Fuller
38. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Marius Petipa
Bill T. Jones
Milhaud
Fred Astaire
39. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Lucien Petipa
Diaghilev
Theophile Gautier
Fokine
40. Chance dance' - focusing on the dance itself and was not interested in telling a story (fliped a coin)
Merce Cunningham
Alvin Ailey
Robert Joffrey
Jean Baptiste Lande
41. Choreographed Jeux
Fokine
Mary Wigman
Nijinsky
Jean Jacques Rousseau
42. The art of making dances - 1959
Doris Humphrey
Louis Horst
Balanchine
Jean Baptiste Lande
43. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Mary Wigman
Paul Taylor
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Robert Ellis Dunn
44. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Leon Bakst
Doris Humphrey
Margaret Sanger
Joe Goode
45. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Pilobolus
August Bournonville
Bill T. Jones
Charles Didelot
46. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Robert Ellis Dunn
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Diaghilev
Marius Petipa
47. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Balanchine
Paul Taylor
Rudolph Nureyev
Diaghilev
48. First male dancer to make an impression in U.S.
Debussy
Rudolph Nureyev
Robert Ellis Dunn
Mary Wigman
49. Still/Here
Theophile Gautier
Bill T. Jones
Fokine
Charles Weidman
50. La Spectre de la Rose
Robert Ellis Dunn
Rudolph Nureyev
Arthur Saint-Leon
Folkine - Nijinsky