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Dance Famous People
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1. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Arthur Mitchell
Fokine
Alwin Nikolais
Folkine - Nijinsky
2. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Rudolph Laban
Arthur Saint-Leon
Hanya Holm
Milhaud
3. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Margaret Sanger
August Bournonville
Nijinsky
Alwin Nikolais
4. Still/Here
Fred Astaire
Theophile Gautier
Bill T. Jones
Joe Goode
5. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Busby Berkeley
Arthur Mitchell
Charles Didelot
Leon Bakst
6. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Diaghilev
Merce Cunningham
Massine
Jean Coralli
7. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
Louis Horst
Jean Baptiste Lande
Jules Perrot
Merce Cunningham
8. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Nijinska
August Bournonville
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Marius Petipa
9. Movement in hips
Leon Bakst
Twyla Tharp
Arthur Mitchell
Jules Perrot
10. AVANT GARDE -CHOREOGRAPHED AUREOLE
Paul Taylor
Merce Cunningham
Alvin Ailey
Debussy
11. Writer of Giselle
Debussy
Theophile Gautier
Merce Cunningham
Garth Fagan
12. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Nijinsky
Nijinsky
Robert Joffrey
Leon Bakst
13. Turned profits by slashing salaries of ballerinas so jockey club friends could have them as mistresses
Jose Limon
Dr. Louis Vernon
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Mary Wigman
14. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Twyla Tharp
Fokine
Arthur Saint-Leon
Rudolph Nureyev
15. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Fokine
Diaghilev
Bill T. Jones
Arthur Saint-Leon
16. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Ginger Rogers
Balanchine
Busby Berkeley
Jean Baptiste Lande
17. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Merce Cunningham
Bill T. Jones
Fokine
Charles Weidman
18. Class grew into Judson's Church Group
August Bournonville
Robert Ellis Dunn
Doris Humphrey
Fokine
19. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Rudolph Nureyev
Loie Fuller
Robert Ellis Dunn
Diaghilev
20. Defected from Russia to US -Greatest danseur of the 20th century.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Fred Astaire
George Balanchine
Nijinsky
21. Developed new ways to use light and movement in her choreography
Anna Pavlova
Loie Fuller
Nijinska
Hanya Holm
22. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Paul Taylor
Balanchine
Nijinska
Nijinsky
23. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Mary Wigman
Theophile Gautier
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Joe Goode
24. Choreographed 'Revelations'
Fred Astaire
Balanchine
Alvin Ailey
Milhaud
25. Known for brilliant divertissments
Diaghilev
Massine
Arthur Saint-Leon
Pilobolus
26. Shortened skirt to show off pointe work - starred in La Sylphide
Robert Joffrey
Merce Cunningham
Robert Ellis Dunn
Marie Taglioni
27. 1st Albrecht
Lucien Petipa
Fred Astaire
Charles Didelot
Debussy
28. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Debussy
August Bournonville
Garth Fagan
Balanchine
29. First lady of modern dance
George Balanchine
Rudolph Nureyev
Anna Pavlova
Ruth St. Denis
30. Brought ballet to the common person
Fokine
Mary Wigman
Anna Pavlova
Debussy
31. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Louis Horst
Alvin Ailey
Lucien Petipa
Charles Weidman
32. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer
Mary Wigman
Jose Limon
Nijinska
Alvin Ailey
33. Choreographed La Sylphide
Jose Limon
Philip Taglioni
Twyla Tharp
Anton Dolin
34. Petrouchka
Doris Humphrey
Fokine
Robert Joffrey
Jules Perrot
35. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Nijinska
Hanya Holm
Merce Cunningham
Arthur Saint-Leon
36. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Fokine
Joe Goode
Lucien Petipa
Ginger Rogers
37. Pelvic contraction and release
Louis Horst
Arthur Mitchell
Debussy
Charles Didelot
38. One of the most prolific jazz composers of the 20th century
Milhaud
Marie Taglioni
Doris Humphrey
Jules Perrot
39. Known for two ballet styles of Symphonic ballet: comedic and satirical
Margaret Sanger
Massine
Hanya Holm
Jean Jacques Rousseau
40. Named the mother of modern dance
Dr. Louis Vernon
Mary Wigman
Anton Dolin
Paul Taylor
41. Brought ballet to Paris
Diaghilev
Nijinsky
Robert Ellis Dunn
Philip Taglioni
42. First male dancer to make an impression in U.S.
Bill T. Jones
Rudolph Nureyev
Busby Berkeley
Paul Taylor
43. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Marius Petipa
Lucien Petipa
Arthur Mitchell
Hanya Holm
44. Choreographed Deeply There in 1988 in response to the AIDS epidemic
Alvin Ailey
Joe Goode
Diaghilev
Rudolph Nureyev
45. Listed as choreographer of Giselle because He was widely respected
Paul Taylor
Milhaud
Merce Cunningham
Jean Coralli
46. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German dance to U.S. but Americanized her technique.
Fokine
Pilobolus
Ivanov
Hanya Holm
47. Father of Russian ballet
Jose Limon
Charles Didelot
Anna Pavlova
Bill T. Jones
48. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Merce Cunningham
Paul Taylor
Dr. Louis Vernon
Theophile Gautier
49. D Man in the Water
Busby Berkeley
Bill T. Jones
Alvin Ailey
Rudolph Nureyev
50. Musician who had an impact on Modern Dance -Created choreography at Merce Cunningham's Studio
Robert Ellis Dunn
August Bournonville
Lincoln Kirstein
Alvin Ailey