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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. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Louis Horst
Fanny Elssler
Busby Berkeley
Marius Petipa
2. D Man in the Water
Bill T. Jones
Nijinska
Merce Cunningham
Balanchine
3. Noted for his use of African elements
Alvin Ailey
Alwin Nikolais
Bill T. Jones
Jean Coralli
4. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Charles Didelot
Jules Perrot
Margaret Sanger
Rudolph Nureyev
5. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Rudolph Laban
Rudolph Nureyev
Bill T. Jones
Garth Fagan
6. Shortened skirt to show off pointe work - starred in La Sylphide
Philip Taglioni
Marie Taglioni
Milhaud
Fokine
7. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Fokine
Robert Ellis Dunn
Pilobolus
Jean Baptiste Lande
8. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Nijinska
Rudolph Nureyev
Robert Joffrey
Diaghilev
9. Class grew into Judson's Church Group
Robert Ellis Dunn
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Jean Coralli
Ruth St. Denis
10. Known for her 'Pagan' style of dance
Fanny Elssler
Lincoln Kirstein
Philip Taglioni
Pilobolus
11. Known for brilliant divertissments
Ivanov
Martha Graham
Alvin Ailey
Arthur Saint-Leon
12. Pelvic contraction and release
Hanya Holm
Jean Coralli
Louis Horst
Mary Wigman
13. Financed Balanchine to come to US - helped found New York City Ballet - served as general director
Busby Berkeley
Robert Joffrey
Lincoln Kirstein
Rudolph Laban
14. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Charles Weidman
Hanya Holm
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Jean Jacques Rousseau
15. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Rudolph Laban
Hanya Holm
Alvin Ailey
Pilobolus
16. Brought ballet to the common person
Ginger Rogers
Alwin Nikolais
Anna Pavlova
Hanya Holm
17. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Mary Wigman
Arthur Mitchell
Mary Wigman
Robert Ellis Dunn
18. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Milhaud
Nijinska
Louis Horst
Marius Petipa
19. African astheic choreography
Loie Fuller
Debussy
Balanchine
Robert Joffrey
20. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Anton Dolin
Paul Taylor
Merce Cunningham
Ruth St. Denis
21. Still/Here
Fanny Elssler
Rudolph Nureyev
Arthur Saint-Leon
Bill T. Jones
22. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Folkine - Nijinsky
Louis Horst
Marius Petipa
Mary Wigman
23. Four Temperaments
Marius Petipa
Balanchine
Marie Taglioni
Mikhail Baryshnikov
24. Starred in Prince of Whales
Anton Dolin
Arthur Saint-Leon
Robert Ellis Dunn
Nijinska
25. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Massine
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Robert Joffrey
Pilobolus
26. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Ivanov
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Ginger Rogers
August Bournonville
27. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Leon Bakst
Mary Wigman
Rudolph Laban
Garth Fagan
28. Developed new ways to use light and movement in her choreography
Loie Fuller
Paul Taylor
Anton Dolin
Fokine
29. Father of Russian ballet
Charles Didelot
Hanya Holm
Anna Pavlova
Pilobolus
30. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Merce Cunningham
Hanya Holm
Dr. Louis Vernon
Jean Jacques Rousseau
31. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Bill T. Jones
Alwin Nikolais
Fokine
Anna Pavlova
32. Composer for 'The Afternoon of a Faun'
Debussy
Margaret Sanger
Twyla Tharp
Rudolph Nureyev
33. Choreographed Jeux
Debussy
Philip Taglioni
Nijinsky
Fokine
34. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Arthur Saint-Leon
Merce Cunningham
Arthur Saint-Leon
Massine
35. Movement in hips
Arthur Mitchell
Anton Dolin
Bill T. Jones
Lucien Petipa
36. Impressionist music
Ivanov
Loie Fuller
Debussy
Jules Perrot
37. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Jose Limon
Bill T. Jones
Anton Dolin
Charles Weidman
38. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Alwin Nikolais
Ginger Rogers
Diaghilev
Fokine
39. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Theophile Gautier
Martha Graham
Milhaud
Doris Humphrey
40. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Fokine
Martha Graham
Robert Ellis Dunn
Alwin Nikolais
41. Launched careers of 5 great choreographers
Martha Graham
Theophile Gautier
Balanchine
Diaghilev
42. Chance dance' - focusing on the dance itself and was not interested in telling a story (fliped a coin)
Jules Perrot
Philip Taglioni
Merce Cunningham
Diaghilev
43. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Jules Perrot
Garth Fagan
August Bournonville
Louis Horst
44. Father of classical ballet
Marius Petipa
Fred Astaire
Nijinska
Pilobolus
45. Choregraphed (the sleeping beauty and nutcracker - swan lake)
Fanny Elssler
Marius Petipa
Alwin Nikolais
Fred Astaire
46. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Paul Taylor
Diaghilev
Arthur Saint-Leon
Arthur Mitchell
47. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Alvin Ailey
Pilobolus
Merce Cunningham
48. First male dancer to make an impression in U.S.
Rudolph Nureyev
Nijinska
Alvin Ailey
George Balanchine
49. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German dance to U.S. but Americanized her technique.
Mary Wigman
Loie Fuller
Hanya Holm
Jean Jacques Rousseau
50. Choreographed Lion King
Rudolph Nureyev
Lincoln Kirstein
Garth Fagan
Fokine