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Dance Famous People
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1. AVANT GARDE -CHOREOGRAPHED AUREOLE
Paul Taylor
August Bournonville
Alwin Nikolais
Arthur Saint-Leon
2. Founded American Dance Theater in New York City
Alvin Ailey
Nijinsky
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Fred Astaire
3. Launched careers of 5 great choreographers
Ruth St. Denis
Balanchine
Massine
Diaghilev
4. Musician who had an impact on Modern Dance -Created choreography at Merce Cunningham's Studio
Robert Ellis Dunn
Marie Taglioni
Jean Coralli
Alvin Ailey
5. First lady of modern dance
Rudolph Nureyev
Paul Taylor
Balanchine
Ruth St. Denis
6. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Rudolph Laban
Folkine - Nijinsky
Theophile Gautier
Louis Horst
7. Four Temperaments
Arthur Mitchell
Fanny Elssler
Diaghilev
Balanchine
8. Writer of Giselle
Theophile Gautier
Suzanne Linglor
Nijinska
Marius Petipa
9. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Loie Fuller
Doris Humphrey
Bill T. Jones
Ivanov
10. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Pilobolus
Ruth St. Denis
Ivanov
Marius Petipa
11. Named the mother of modern dance
Marius Petipa
Mary Wigman
Nijinsky
Alwin Nikolais
12. Designed costumes and set of Afternoon of a Faune
Nijinska
Leon Bakst
Suzanne Linglor
Loie Fuller
13. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Balanchine
Busby Berkeley
Charles Didelot
Martha Graham
14. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Pilobolus
Fred Astaire
Fanny Elssler
Doris Humphrey
15. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Leon Bakst
Jean Baptiste Lande
Diaghilev
Merce Cunningham
16. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Fokine
Theophile Gautier
Ginger Rogers
Leon Bakst
17. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Charles Weidman
Jules Perrot
Jose Limon
Alwin Nikolais
18. Choregraphed (the sleeping beauty and nutcracker - swan lake)
Marius Petipa
Balanchine
Suzanne Linglor
Folkine - Nijinsky
19. Noted for his use of African elements
Leon Bakst
Alvin Ailey
Ivanov
Nijinsky
20. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Jules Perrot
Nijinska
Loie Fuller
Mary Wigman
21. Defected from Russia to US -Greatest danseur of the 20th century.
Debussy
Arthur Saint-Leon
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Jean Coralli
22. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Alwin Nikolais
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Theophile Gautier
Fanny Elssler
23. Brought ballet to Paris
Philip Taglioni
Diaghilev
Rudolph Nureyev
Nijinska
24. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German dance to U.S. but Americanized her technique.
Hanya Holm
Fokine
Charles Didelot
Fokine
25. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Rudolph Nureyev
Marius Petipa
Merce Cunningham
Balanchine
26. Known for her 'Pagan' style of dance
Ruby Keeler
Louis Horst
Fanny Elssler
Arthur Saint-Leon
27. Choreographed Deeply There in 1988 in response to the AIDS epidemic
Suzanne Linglor
Joe Goode
Nijinsky
Marius Petipa
28. La Spectre de la Rose
Mary Wigman
Balanchine
Folkine - Nijinsky
Leon Bakst
29. The art of making dances - 1959
Doris Humphrey
Arthur Mitchell
Jean Coralli
George Balanchine
30. Choreographed Jeux
Merce Cunningham
Lincoln Kirstein
Nijinsky
Marie Taglioni
31. Apollo - 1928
Garth Fagan
Balanchine
Anton Dolin
Ruth St. Denis
32. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Mary Wigman
Arthur Saint-Leon
Margaret Sanger
Anna Pavlova
33. Pioneer of modern dance in Germany
Paul Taylor
Joe Goode
Alwin Nikolais
Mary Wigman
34. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Paul Taylor
Bill T. Jones
Diaghilev
Louis Horst
35. Chance dance' - focusing on the dance itself and was not interested in telling a story (fliped a coin)
Balanchine
Merce Cunningham
Louis Horst
Jules Perrot
36. Turned profits by slashing salaries of ballerinas so jockey club friends could have them as mistresses
Garth Fagan
Ginger Rogers
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Dr. Louis Vernon
37. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Bill T. Jones
Fred Astaire
Jean Baptiste Lande
Rudolph Nureyev
38. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Jose Limon
Fokine
Marius Petipa
Charles Weidman
39. Father of classical ballet
Marius Petipa
Merce Cunningham
Pilobolus
Ruth St. Denis
40. Choreographed Lion King
Garth Fagan
Doris Humphrey
Fokine
Arthur Mitchell
41. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer
Bill T. Jones
Louis Horst
Lincoln Kirstein
Jose Limon
42. First male dancer to make an impression in U.S.
Alwin Nikolais
Rudolph Nureyev
Bill T. Jones
August Bournonville
43. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Theophile Gautier
Nijinsky
Mary Wigman
Fokine
44. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Busby Berkeley
Diaghilev
Jean Baptiste Lande
Anton Dolin
45. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Louis Horst
August Bournonville
Milhaud
Leon Bakst
46. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Ginger Rogers
Leon Bakst
Anton Dolin
47. African American modern Dance choreographer
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mary Wigman
Bill T. Jones
Ruby Keeler
48. Impressionist music
Arthur Mitchell
Jean Baptiste Lande
Busby Berkeley
Debussy
49. Acts of Light
Robert Ellis Dunn
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Margaret Sanger
Martha Graham
50. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Arthur Saint-Leon
Pilobolus
Theophile Gautier
Rudolph Nureyev