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Dance Famous People
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1. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Anna Pavlova
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Hanya Holm
Nijinska
2. 1st Albrecht
Lucien Petipa
Busby Berkeley
Arthur Saint-Leon
Balanchine
3. Points in Space -Composer: John Cage(partner) -Taught by Martha Graham
Arthur Mitchell
Nijinska
Merce Cunningham
Mary Wigman
4. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Balanchine
Charles Weidman
Alvin Ailey
Busby Berkeley
5. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet
Anton Dolin
Theophile Gautier
Mary Wigman
Diaghilev
6. La Spectre de la Rose
Loie Fuller
Louis Horst
Folkine - Nijinsky
Pilobolus
7. Rite of Spring
Busby Berkeley
Nijinsky
Suzanne Linglor
Fokine
8. Composer for 'The Afternoon of a Faun'
Rudolph Nureyev
Debussy
Arthur Mitchell
Doris Humphrey
9. Petrouchka
Fokine
Louis Horst
Paul Taylor
Mary Wigman
10. Writer of Giselle
Theophile Gautier
Debussy
Anton Dolin
Fred Astaire
11. Developed new ways to use light and movement in her choreography
Theophile Gautier
Nijinska
Leon Bakst
Loie Fuller
12. Afternoon of a Faun
Dr. Louis Vernon
Nijinsky
Anna Pavlova
Diaghilev
13. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
Leon Bakst
Arthur Saint-Leon
August Bournonville
Jules Perrot
14. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Diaghilev
Arthur Saint-Leon
Robert Ellis Dunn
Nijinska
15. Choreographed Lion King
Garth Fagan
Milhaud
Diaghilev
Lincoln Kirstein
16. Father of classical ballet
Debussy
Rudolph Nureyev
Marius Petipa
Arthur Mitchell
17. Still/Here
Arthur Mitchell
Bill T. Jones
Garth Fagan
Mary Wigman
18. Starred in Prince of Whales
Jean Coralli
Anton Dolin
Charles Didelot
Bill T. Jones
19. Brought ballet to the common person
Ruth St. Denis
Anna Pavlova
Theophile Gautier
Ruth St. Denis
20. Choreographed Jeux
Bill T. Jones
Massine
Marius Petipa
Nijinsky
21. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Rudolph Nureyev
Milhaud
Nijinsky
Lincoln Kirstein
22. Musician who had an impact on Modern Dance -Created choreography at Merce Cunningham's Studio
Diaghilev
Robert Ellis Dunn
Fred Astaire
Fanny Elssler
23. African astheic choreography
Balanchine
Fokine
Robert Ellis Dunn
Nijinska
24. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Alvin Ailey
Alwin Nikolais
Lincoln Kirstein
Balanchine
25. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Arthur Saint-Leon
Twyla Tharp
Theophile Gautier
Jules Perrot
26. Father of Russian ballet
Martha Graham
Fred Astaire
Fanny Elssler
Charles Didelot
27. Four Temperaments
George Balanchine
Dr. Louis Vernon
Balanchine
Twyla Tharp
28. Brought ballet to Paris
Louis Horst
Bill T. Jones
Bill T. Jones
Diaghilev
29. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Joe Goode
Alvin Ailey
Ivanov
August Bournonville
30. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Ginger Rogers
Milhaud
Fokine
George Balanchine
31. Shortened skirt to show off pointe work - starred in La Sylphide
Busby Berkeley
Rudolph Nureyev
Marie Taglioni
Milhaud
32. One of the most prolific jazz composers of the 20th century
Milhaud
Bill T. Jones
Fokine
Marius Petipa
33. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Ruby Keeler
Paul Taylor
Arthur Mitchell
Ivanov
34. Class grew into Judson's Church Group
Alvin Ailey
Robert Ellis Dunn
Diaghilev
Leon Bakst
35. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Doris Humphrey
Ruth St. Denis
Robert Ellis Dunn
Nijinska
36. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German dance to U.S. but Americanized her technique.
Hanya Holm
Massine
Fokine
George Balanchine
37. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Merce Cunningham
Fokine
Pilobolus
Debussy
38. Financed Balanchine to come to US - helped found New York City Ballet - served as general director
Arthur Mitchell
Massine
Marius Petipa
Lincoln Kirstein
39. Movement in hips
Rudolph Nureyev
Arthur Mitchell
Folkine - Nijinsky
Robert Joffrey
40. Founded American Dance Theater in New York City
Alvin Ailey
Ivanov
Marie Taglioni
Pilobolus
41. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Anton Dolin
Fokine
Mary Wigman
Balanchine
42. Played Swanilda in Coppelia
Alvin Ailey
Joe Goode
Bill T. Jones
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
43. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Rudolph Nureyev
Pilobolus
Nijinska
Jean Jacques Rousseau
44. Apollo - 1928
Pilobolus
Louis Horst
Merce Cunningham
Balanchine
45. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Alvin Ailey
Mary Wigman
Theophile Gautier
Robert Joffrey
46. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Fokine
Charles Weidman
Merce Cunningham
Robert Ellis Dunn
47. D Man in the Water
Lucien Petipa
Folkine - Nijinsky
Bill T. Jones
Dr. Louis Vernon
48. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Martha Graham
Alvin Ailey
Nijinska
Doris Humphrey
49. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Arthur Saint-Leon
Jules Perrot
Robert Joffrey
Diaghilev
50. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Nijinsky
Marius Petipa
Jean Baptiste Lande
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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