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Dance Famous People
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1. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Rudolph Laban
Hanya Holm
Balanchine
Massine
2. Father of classical ballet
Marius Petipa
Charles Didelot
Fokine
Jean Coralli
3. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Martha Graham
Fokine
Balanchine
Lucien Petipa
4. Wrote against male dancers
Charles Weidman
Alwin Nikolais
Jules Perrot
Theophile Gautier
5. The art of making dances - 1959
Charles Didelot
Hanya Holm
Robert Ellis Dunn
Doris Humphrey
6. Petrouchka
Fokine
Debussy
Mary Wigman
Louis Horst
7. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Rudolph Nureyev
Anton Dolin
Debussy
Mary Wigman
8. Danced in Berkeley's movies - First movie dancing star of 1930's 42nd street led to her success
Marius Petipa
Alvin Ailey
Ruby Keeler
Diaghilev
9. Impressionist music
Merce Cunningham
Theophile Gautier
Debussy
Mary Wigman
10. Founded American Dance Theater in New York City
Doris Humphrey
Alvin Ailey
Ruth St. Denis
August Bournonville
11. AVANT GARDE -CHOREOGRAPHED AUREOLE
Rudolph Laban
Pilobolus
Hanya Holm
Paul Taylor
12. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Ivanov
Anton Dolin
Jules Perrot
Balanchine
13. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Milhaud
Busby Berkeley
Louis Horst
Nijinsky
14. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Robert Joffrey
Debussy
Jean Baptiste Lande
Nijinsky
15. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Suzanne Linglor
Milhaud
Lincoln Kirstein
Marie Taglioni
16. Musician who had an impact on Modern Dance -Created choreography at Merce Cunningham's Studio
Rudolph Nureyev
Robert Ellis Dunn
Balanchine
Rudolph Laban
17. Noted for his use of African elements
Merce Cunningham
Louis Horst
Alvin Ailey
Debussy
18. Launched careers of 5 great choreographers
Robert Joffrey
Diaghilev
Robert Ellis Dunn
Ivanov
19. Writer of Giselle
Massine
Anton Dolin
Robert Ellis Dunn
Theophile Gautier
20. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Jules Perrot
Bill T. Jones
Alwin Nikolais
Fokine
21. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Fanny Elssler
Milhaud
Nijinsky
Pilobolus
22. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer
Fanny Elssler
Nijinska
Fokine
Jose Limon
23. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Ivanov
Fokine
Twyla Tharp
Theophile Gautier
24. Co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet
Folkine - Nijinsky
Rudolph Nureyev
George Balanchine
Louis Horst
25. Points in Space -Composer: John Cage(partner) -Taught by Martha Graham
Rudolph Nureyev
Nijinsky
Merce Cunningham
Paul Taylor
26. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Nijinsky
Loie Fuller
Alwin Nikolais
Diaghilev
27. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Alwin Nikolais
George Balanchine
Paul Taylor
Charles Didelot
28. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Mary Wigman
Nijinska
Nijinsky
Fanny Elssler
29. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Leon Bakst
Marius Petipa
Louis Horst
Jules Perrot
30. Choreographed La Sylphide
Diaghilev
Philip Taglioni
Jules Perrot
Leon Bakst
31. Movement in hips
Alvin Ailey
Arthur Mitchell
Rudolph Laban
Balanchine
32. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Jose Limon
Alwin Nikolais
Busby Berkeley
Theophile Gautier
33. First female ballet choreographer of the 20th century
Nijinska
Mary Wigman
Paul Taylor
Arthur Mitchell
34. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Marie Taglioni
Charles Weidman
Leon Bakst
Ginger Rogers
35. Known for two ballet styles of Symphonic ballet: comedic and satirical
Massine
Busby Berkeley
Jean Coralli
Marius Petipa
36. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Robert Ellis Dunn
Louis Horst
Arthur Mitchell
Merce Cunningham
37. 1st Albrecht
Massine
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Lucien Petipa
Nijinsky
38. Class grew into Judson's Church Group
Alvin Ailey
Alwin Nikolais
August Bournonville
Robert Ellis Dunn
39. Choreographed Deeply There in 1988 in response to the AIDS epidemic
Robert Ellis Dunn
Alvin Ailey
Marius Petipa
Joe Goode
40. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Marie Taglioni
Marius Petipa
Arthur Saint-Leon
Leon Bakst
41. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Pilobolus
August Bournonville
Diaghilev
Busby Berkeley
42. Choreographed 'Revelations'
Alvin Ailey
Jules Perrot
Fokine
Robert Ellis Dunn
43. Shortened skirt to show off pointe work - starred in La Sylphide
Marie Taglioni
Ivanov
Loie Fuller
Lucien Petipa
44. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Nijinska
Arthur Saint-Leon
Massine
Rudolph Nureyev
45. Starred in Prince of Whales
Paul Taylor
Anton Dolin
Nijinska
Robert Ellis Dunn
46. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Nijinska
Nijinsky
Milhaud
Ruth St. Denis
47. Brought ballet to the common person
Alvin Ailey
Massine
Busby Berkeley
Anna Pavlova
48. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Twyla Tharp
George Balanchine
Alwin Nikolais
Louis Horst
49. One of the most prolific jazz composers of the 20th century
Fokine
Folkine - Nijinsky
Milhaud
Anton Dolin
50. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Margaret Sanger
Debussy
Rudolph Nureyev
Fokine