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Dance Famous People
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1. African astheic choreography
Ginger Rogers
Louis Horst
Bill T. Jones
Balanchine
2. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Debussy
Bill T. Jones
Doris Humphrey
Paul Taylor
3. African American modern Dance choreographer
Bill T. Jones
Diaghilev
Fokine
Nijinska
4. Father of Russian ballet
Nijinsky
Charles Didelot
Mary Wigman
Paul Taylor
5. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Garth Fagan
Anna Pavlova
Fokine
Nijinsky
6. Brought ballet to Paris
Fokine
Diaghilev
Theophile Gautier
Marius Petipa
7. First male dancer to make an impression in U.S.
Rudolph Nureyev
Fokine
Marius Petipa
George Balanchine
8. Rite of Spring
Merce Cunningham
Mary Wigman
Lucien Petipa
Nijinsky
9. Brought ballet to the common person
Ginger Rogers
Jules Perrot
Anna Pavlova
Nijinska
10. Co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet
George Balanchine
Louis Horst
Merce Cunningham
Merce Cunningham
11. Choreographed Jeux
Theophile Gautier
Paul Taylor
Theophile Gautier
Nijinsky
12. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Arthur Mitchell
Ruby Keeler
Robert Ellis Dunn
Nijinsky
13. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Twyla Tharp
Alvin Ailey
Charles Didelot
Hanya Holm
14. Movement in hips
Arthur Mitchell
Alvin Ailey
Fokine
Mikhail Baryshnikov
15. Class grew into Judson's Church Group
Alwin Nikolais
Leon Bakst
Robert Ellis Dunn
Folkine - Nijinsky
16. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Pilobolus
Anton Dolin
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Robert Joffrey
17. La Spectre de la Rose
Nijinsky
Folkine - Nijinsky
Marius Petipa
Nijinska
18. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer
Jose Limon
Robert Ellis Dunn
Marius Petipa
Alwin Nikolais
19. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Pilobolus
Ginger Rogers
Alwin Nikolais
Suzanne Linglor
20. Choregraphed (the sleeping beauty and nutcracker - swan lake)
Marius Petipa
Fokine
Ivanov
Ruth St. Denis
21. Noted for his use of African elements
Charles Weidman
Marius Petipa
Robert Ellis Dunn
Alvin Ailey
22. Acts of Light
Fanny Elssler
Louis Horst
Theophile Gautier
Martha Graham
23. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Diaghilev
Jean Baptiste Lande
Alvin Ailey
Arthur Saint-Leon
24. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Louis Horst
Arthur Saint-Leon
Fokine
Alvin Ailey
25. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Balanchine
Charles Weidman
Massine
Alwin Nikolais
26. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Nijinska
Suzanne Linglor
Alwin Nikolais
Mikhail Baryshnikov
27. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Nijinsky
Marius Petipa
Busby Berkeley
Milhaud
28. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Merce Cunningham
Paul Taylor
Debussy
Rudolph Nureyev
29. Defected from Russia to US -Greatest danseur of the 20th century.
Arthur Mitchell
Garth Fagan
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Pilobolus
30. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Nijinska
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Charles Didelot
Ruby Keeler
31. Wrote against male dancers
Marie Taglioni
Leon Bakst
Fred Astaire
Theophile Gautier
32. Composer for 'The Afternoon of a Faun'
Ivanov
Debussy
Margaret Sanger
Balanchine
33. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Diaghilev
Charles Didelot
Anton Dolin
Margaret Sanger
34. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Busby Berkeley
Nijinska
Ginger Rogers
Pilobolus
35. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Charles Didelot
Doris Humphrey
Ginger Rogers
Arthur Mitchell
36. The art of making dances - 1959
Doris Humphrey
Merce Cunningham
Paul Taylor
Robert Ellis Dunn
37. Pelvic contraction and release
Diaghilev
Fokine
Louis Horst
Philip Taglioni
38. Played Swanilda in Coppelia
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
George Balanchine
Ivanov
Anton Dolin
39. Named the mother of modern dance
Alvin Ailey
Massine
Marius Petipa
Mary Wigman
40. Four Temperaments
Suzanne Linglor
Arthur Mitchell
Balanchine
Alvin Ailey
41. Starred in Prince of Whales
Anton Dolin
Fokine
Mary Wigman
Bill T. Jones
42. Musician who had an impact on Modern Dance -Created choreography at Merce Cunningham's Studio
Doris Humphrey
Nijinska
Robert Ellis Dunn
Doris Humphrey
43. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
August Bournonville
Dr. Louis Vernon
Merce Cunningham
Charles Didelot
44. Impressionist music
Debussy
Fred Astaire
Charles Weidman
Martha Graham
45. Chance dance' - focusing on the dance itself and was not interested in telling a story (fliped a coin)
Milhaud
Jules Perrot
Merce Cunningham
Bill T. Jones
46. D Man in the Water
Pilobolus
Bill T. Jones
Mary Wigman
Fred Astaire
47. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Mary Wigman
Ivanov
Marie Taglioni
Folkine - Nijinsky
48. Still/Here
Bill T. Jones
Marie Taglioni
Rudolph Nureyev
Folkine - Nijinsky
49. Known for two ballet styles of Symphonic ballet: comedic and satirical
Charles Didelot
Pilobolus
Rudolph Nureyev
Massine
50. Father of classical ballet
Ivanov
Garth Fagan
Marius Petipa
Alvin Ailey
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