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Dance Famous People
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1. Points in Space -Composer: John Cage(partner) -Taught by Martha Graham
Merce Cunningham
George Balanchine
Jules Perrot
Robert Ellis Dunn
2. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Fokine
Ginger Rogers
Twyla Tharp
Nijinsky
3. Father of classical ballet
Marius Petipa
Pilobolus
Bill T. Jones
Nijinska
4. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Theophile Gautier
Merce Cunningham
Bill T. Jones
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
5. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Rudolph Nureyev
Nijinsky
Nijinska
Ivanov
6. Choregraphed (the sleeping beauty and nutcracker - swan lake)
Marius Petipa
Nijinsky
Merce Cunningham
Merce Cunningham
7. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Alwin Nikolais
Anna Pavlova
Mary Wigman
Robert Joffrey
8. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer
Marius Petipa
Alwin Nikolais
Jose Limon
Massine
9. Father of Russian ballet
Marius Petipa
Nijinska
Charles Didelot
Margaret Sanger
10. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
George Balanchine
Nijinska
Charles Weidman
Merce Cunningham
11. D Man in the Water
Rudolph Laban
Arthur Saint-Leon
Bill T. Jones
Anton Dolin
12. Brought ballet to Paris
Massine
Rudolph Laban
Massine
Diaghilev
13. Rite of Spring
Jean Coralli
August Bournonville
Robert Joffrey
Nijinsky
14. Co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet
Charles Weidman
Ginger Rogers
George Balanchine
Mary Wigman
15. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Ivanov
Joe Goode
Rudolph Nureyev
Robert Ellis Dunn
16. La Spectre de la Rose
Folkine - Nijinsky
Leon Bakst
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Fokine
17. Known for brilliant divertissments
Bill T. Jones
Arthur Saint-Leon
Pilobolus
Mikhail Baryshnikov
18. Apollo - 1928
Merce Cunningham
Balanchine
Marius Petipa
Charles Didelot
19. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Charles Didelot
August Bournonville
Philip Taglioni
Massine
20. Choreographed Coppelia
Diaghilev
Arthur Mitchell
Alvin Ailey
Arthur Saint-Leon
21. First male dancer to make an impression in U.S.
Garth Fagan
Rudolph Nureyev
Fokine
Ivanov
22. Afternoon of a Faun
Fokine
Merce Cunningham
Merce Cunningham
Nijinsky
23. Developed new ways to use light and movement in her choreography
Loie Fuller
Mary Wigman
Robert Ellis Dunn
Mikhail Baryshnikov
24. Petrouchka
Anton Dolin
Theophile Gautier
Fokine
Philip Taglioni
25. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Mary Wigman
Nijinsky
Marius Petipa
Jules Perrot
26. 1st Albrecht
Lucien Petipa
Merce Cunningham
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Milhaud
27. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Philip Taglioni
Doris Humphrey
Diaghilev
Paul Taylor
28. Played Swanilda in Coppelia
Anna Pavlova
Ivanov
Diaghilev
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
29. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Nijinska
Lincoln Kirstein
Robert Joffrey
Garth Fagan
30. Composer for 'The Afternoon of a Faun'
Jules Perrot
Busby Berkeley
Debussy
Anna Pavlova
31. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Pilobolus
Martha Graham
Charles Didelot
Anton Dolin
32. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Margaret Sanger
Diaghilev
Marius Petipa
Bill T. Jones
33. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Rudolph Nureyev
Marie Taglioni
Nijinsky
Jean Coralli
34. Financed Balanchine to come to US - helped found New York City Ballet - served as general director
Fokine
Lincoln Kirstein
Anton Dolin
Alvin Ailey
35. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Anton Dolin
Twyla Tharp
Ruth St. Denis
Mary Wigman
36. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Alvin Ailey
Fokine
Mary Wigman
Diaghilev
37. Designed costumes and set of Afternoon of a Faune
Merce Cunningham
Dr. Louis Vernon
Leon Bakst
Arthur Saint-Leon
38. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Fred Astaire
Alwin Nikolais
Diaghilev
Paul Taylor
39. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Merce Cunningham
Suzanne Linglor
Massine
Anna Pavlova
40. Named the mother of modern dance
Mary Wigman
Massine
Jules Perrot
Fokine
41. Acts of Light
Martha Graham
Ivanov
Theophile Gautier
Ruth St. Denis
42. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Jose Limon
Milhaud
Robert Ellis Dunn
Debussy
43. Agon - 1957
Balanchine
Merce Cunningham
Robert Joffrey
Merce Cunningham
44. REBELLED AGAINST IDEA THAT DANCE HAD TO HAVE MEANING
Marius Petipa
Marie Taglioni
Lucien Petipa
Merce Cunningham
45. Four Temperaments
Balanchine
Jean Baptiste Lande
Diaghilev
Marie Taglioni
46. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Ivanov
Marius Petipa
Ginger Rogers
Fokine
47. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Nijinsky
Arthur Saint-Leon
Balanchine
Louis Horst
48. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet
Alwin Nikolais
Balanchine
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Anton Dolin
49. Founded American Dance Theater in New York City
Alvin Ailey
Alwin Nikolais
Bill T. Jones
Loie Fuller
50. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Pilobolus
Debussy
Louis Horst
Busby Berkeley
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