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Dance Famous People
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. African astheic choreography
Ivanov
Nijinska
Fokine
Balanchine
2. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Garth Fagan
Merce Cunningham
Ivanov
Diaghilev
3. Impressionist music
Debussy
Charles Weidman
Twyla Tharp
Garth Fagan
4. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Bill T. Jones
Garth Fagan
Fred Astaire
Anton Dolin
5. Professional tennis player Who was known for using ballet skills on the court
Suzanne Linglor
Alvin Ailey
Hanya Holm
Theophile Gautier
6. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Marie Taglioni
Merce Cunningham
August Bournonville
Twyla Tharp
7. Defected from Russia to US -Greatest danseur of the 20th century.
Fokine
Robert Ellis Dunn
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Bill T. Jones
8. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Rudolph Nureyev
Margaret Sanger
Debussy
Mary Wigman
9. Known for brilliant divertissments
Debussy
Arthur Saint-Leon
Debussy
Martha Graham
10. Choreographed Coppelia
Debussy
Arthur Saint-Leon
Fokine
Bill T. Jones
11. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Diaghilev
Debussy
Jules Perrot
Rudolph Nureyev
12. 1st Albrecht
Lucien Petipa
Diaghilev
Arthur Saint-Leon
Robert Ellis Dunn
13. Played Swanilda in Coppelia
Ivanov
Milhaud
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Balanchine
14. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Fred Astaire
Nijinsky
Charles Didelot
Alvin Ailey
15. Starred in Prince of Whales
Anton Dolin
Lucien Petipa
Diaghilev
Jean Jacques Rousseau
16. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Rudolph Laban
Alvin Ailey
Dr. Louis Vernon
Ginger Rogers
17. Petrouchka
Louis Horst
Fokine
Balanchine
Alvin Ailey
18. Four Temperaments
Merce Cunningham
Rudolph Nureyev
Nijinska
Balanchine
19. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Marius Petipa
Ruth St. Denis
Nijinska
Anna Pavlova
20. Listed as choreographer of Giselle because He was widely respected
Jean Coralli
Ruby Keeler
Merce Cunningham
Merce Cunningham
21. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Fokine
Ruby Keeler
Philip Taglioni
Milhaud
22. Shortened skirt to show off pointe work - starred in La Sylphide
Marius Petipa
Marie Taglioni
Charles Didelot
Louis Horst
23. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Diaghilev
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Martha Graham
Robert Joffrey
24. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Debussy
Jean Baptiste Lande
Robert Ellis Dunn
25. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Doris Humphrey
Rudolph Nureyev
Hanya Holm
Leon Bakst
26. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Anton Dolin
Nijinska
Marius Petipa
Alvin Ailey
27. African American modern Dance choreographer
Bill T. Jones
Rudolph Nureyev
Jose Limon
Anton Dolin
28. La Spectre de la Rose
Nijinska
Mary Wigman
Folkine - Nijinsky
Louis Horst
29. AVANT GARDE -CHOREOGRAPHED AUREOLE
Hanya Holm
Paul Taylor
Marius Petipa
Busby Berkeley
30. Considered the greatest male dancer of the romantic era
Bill T. Jones
Jules Perrot
Fanny Elssler
Alvin Ailey
31. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Paul Taylor
Ruby Keeler
Dr. Louis Vernon
Suzanne Linglor
32. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Margaret Sanger
Theophile Gautier
Bill T. Jones
Mary Wigman
33. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Jean Coralli
Robert Ellis Dunn
Theophile Gautier
Alwin Nikolais
34. D Man in the Water
Busby Berkeley
Bill T. Jones
George Balanchine
Anton Dolin
35. Choreographed Deeply There in 1988 in response to the AIDS epidemic
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Doris Humphrey
Nijinsky
Joe Goode
36. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Fokine
Debussy
Merce Cunningham
Mary Wigman
37. Brought ballet to Paris
Diaghilev
Theophile Gautier
Bill T. Jones
Alvin Ailey
38. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Jules Perrot
Rudolph Nureyev
Merce Cunningham
Fred Astaire
39. Apollo - 1928
Diaghilev
Charles Didelot
Jean Baptiste Lande
Balanchine
40. Writer of Giselle
Nijinska
Bill T. Jones
Theophile Gautier
Ginger Rogers
41. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Paul Taylor
Pilobolus
Busby Berkeley
Alwin Nikolais
42. Composer for 'The Afternoon of a Faun'
Fokine
Jean Coralli
Debussy
Louis Horst
43. Father of classical ballet
Marius Petipa
Lucien Petipa
Fanny Elssler
Arthur Mitchell
44. Wrote against male dancers
Bill T. Jones
Alvin Ailey
Dr. Louis Vernon
Theophile Gautier
45. Designed costumes and set of Afternoon of a Faune
Doris Humphrey
Leon Bakst
Milhaud
Balanchine
46. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Busby Berkeley
Pilobolus
Bill T. Jones
Bill T. Jones
47. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Jean Baptiste Lande
Loie Fuller
Ruby Keeler
Balanchine
48. Still/Here
Paul Taylor
Louis Horst
Bill T. Jones
Ruth St. Denis
49. Danced in Berkeley's movies - First movie dancing star of 1930's 42nd street led to her success
Ruby Keeler
Loie Fuller
Martha Graham
Bill T. Jones
50. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Mary Wigman
Fokine
Theophile Gautier
Robert Ellis Dunn