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Dance Famous People
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1. Writer of Giselle
Marius Petipa
Theophile Gautier
Jose Limon
Merce Cunningham
2. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
August Bournonville
Debussy
Busby Berkeley
Folkine - Nijinsky
3. Choreographed La Sylphide
Philip Taglioni
Robert Joffrey
Debussy
Busby Berkeley
4. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Nijinsky
Fred Astaire
Nijinska
Fokine
5. Still/Here
Ginger Rogers
Massine
Bill T. Jones
Rudolph Laban
6. Choregraphed (the sleeping beauty and nutcracker - swan lake)
Theophile Gautier
Fred Astaire
Marius Petipa
Philip Taglioni
7. Named the mother of modern dance
Theophile Gautier
Charles Weidman
Suzanne Linglor
Mary Wigman
8. African American modern Dance choreographer
Leon Bakst
Jean Coralli
Bill T. Jones
Jose Limon
9. Pioneer of modern dance in Germany
Rudolph Nureyev
Joe Goode
Paul Taylor
Mary Wigman
10. D Man in the Water
Balanchine
Dr. Louis Vernon
Merce Cunningham
Bill T. Jones
11. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Doris Humphrey
Ivanov
Nijinska
Mary Wigman
12. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Rudolph Nureyev
Louis Horst
Arthur Mitchell
Fokine
13. Afternoon of a Faun
Nijinsky
Suzanne Linglor
Fokine
Massine
14. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Merce Cunningham
Anna Pavlova
Charles Didelot
Fokine
15. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Robert Ellis Dunn
Merce Cunningham
Charles Didelot
Suzanne Linglor
16. Composer for 'The Afternoon of a Faun'
Pilobolus
Debussy
Arthur Saint-Leon
Ginger Rogers
17. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Pilobolus
Massine
Louis Horst
Merce Cunningham
18. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Fokine
Arthur Mitchell
Dr. Louis Vernon
August Bournonville
19. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Leon Bakst
Nijinsky
Mary Wigman
Leon Bakst
20. Launched careers of 5 great choreographers
Lucien Petipa
Jose Limon
Folkine - Nijinsky
Diaghilev
21. Wrote against male dancers
Balanchine
Massine
Alvin Ailey
Theophile Gautier
22. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Milhaud
Louis Horst
Mary Wigman
Jean Baptiste Lande
23. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Arthur Mitchell
Ruth St. Denis
Lucien Petipa
Margaret Sanger
24. Designed costumes and set of Afternoon of a Faune
Leon Bakst
Alvin Ailey
Merce Cunningham
Nijinska
25. Wrote autobiography Confessions
George Balanchine
Balanchine
August Bournonville
Jean Jacques Rousseau
26. Listed as choreographer of Giselle because He was widely respected
Jose Limon
Jean Coralli
Merce Cunningham
Fokine
27. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Robert Joffrey
Merce Cunningham
Ruth St. Denis
Marie Taglioni
28. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Charles Didelot
Jose Limon
Milhaud
Nijinsky
29. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Balanchine
Marius Petipa
Diaghilev
Ruth St. Denis
30. Four Temperaments
Balanchine
Fred Astaire
Garth Fagan
Marie Taglioni
31. Acts of Light
Martha Graham
Alvin Ailey
Fokine
Loie Fuller
32. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Charles Didelot
Charles Didelot
Charles Weidman
33. Choreographed Lion King
Fokine
Robert Ellis Dunn
Milhaud
Garth Fagan
34. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Louis Horst
Leon Bakst
Debussy
Fokine
35. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Milhaud
Fokine
Debussy
Alwin Nikolais
36. The art of making dances - 1959
Diaghilev
Doris Humphrey
George Balanchine
Alwin Nikolais
37. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Twyla Tharp
Ivanov
Suzanne Linglor
Doris Humphrey
38. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Lincoln Kirstein
Ruth St. Denis
Bill T. Jones
Nijinsky
39. First lady of modern dance
Philip Taglioni
Ruth St. Denis
Arthur Mitchell
Theophile Gautier
40. Brought ballet to Paris
Charles Weidman
Diaghilev
Fokine
Marius Petipa
41. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
Fokine
Diaghilev
Jules Perrot
Debussy
42. Petrouchka
Doris Humphrey
Debussy
Fokine
Diaghilev
43. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Jules Perrot
Anton Dolin
Rudolph Laban
Balanchine
44. Musician who had an impact on Modern Dance -Created choreography at Merce Cunningham's Studio
Alwin Nikolais
Diaghilev
Robert Ellis Dunn
Mary Wigman
45. Pelvic contraction and release
Ginger Rogers
Louis Horst
Fanny Elssler
Marius Petipa
46. Developed new ways to use light and movement in her choreography
Mary Wigman
Theophile Gautier
Dr. Louis Vernon
Loie Fuller
47. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German dance to U.S. but Americanized her technique.
Suzanne Linglor
Pilobolus
Busby Berkeley
Hanya Holm
48. Noted for his use of African elements
Joe Goode
Diaghilev
Alvin Ailey
Arthur Mitchell
49. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Marius Petipa
Paul Taylor
Milhaud
Theophile Gautier
50. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Robert Ellis Dunn
Mary Wigman
Louis Horst
Alwin Nikolais