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Dance Famous People
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Rudolph Nureyev
Garth Fagan
Busby Berkeley
Fanny Elssler
2. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Alvin Ailey
Jules Perrot
Robert Ellis Dunn
Marius Petipa
3. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
Jules Perrot
August Bournonville
Robert Ellis Dunn
Theophile Gautier
4. Played Swanilda in Coppelia
Dr. Louis Vernon
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Fred Astaire
Bill T. Jones
5. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Pilobolus
Doris Humphrey
Ruth St. Denis
Marie Taglioni
6. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Leon Bakst
Bill T. Jones
Dr. Louis Vernon
Diaghilev
7. Starred in Prince of Whales
Pilobolus
Marius Petipa
Anton Dolin
Robert Ellis Dunn
8. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Louis Horst
Fokine
Merce Cunningham
Merce Cunningham
9. Choreographed Jeux
Marie Taglioni
Doris Humphrey
Nijinsky
Rudolph Nureyev
10. Rite of Spring
Merce Cunningham
Nijinsky
Nijinska
Milhaud
11. La Spectre de la Rose
Theophile Gautier
Folkine - Nijinsky
Arthur Saint-Leon
Fokine
12. Choreographed Coppelia
Arthur Saint-Leon
Alwin Nikolais
Debussy
Charles Didelot
13. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Busby Berkeley
Massine
Ruby Keeler
Marie Taglioni
14. Co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet
Busby Berkeley
Nijinska
George Balanchine
Robert Ellis Dunn
15. Afternoon of a Faun
Bill T. Jones
Anton Dolin
Fokine
Nijinsky
16. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Louis Horst
Debussy
Merce Cunningham
Charles Didelot
17. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Nijinska
Merce Cunningham
Paul Taylor
Mary Wigman
18. REBELLED AGAINST IDEA THAT DANCE HAD TO HAVE MEANING
Merce Cunningham
Alvin Ailey
Busby Berkeley
Balanchine
19. Acts of Light
Martha Graham
Busby Berkeley
Nijinsky
Marius Petipa
20. Brought ballet to the common person
Nijinsky
Anna Pavlova
Dr. Louis Vernon
Garth Fagan
21. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Ivanov
Margaret Sanger
Nijinsky
Robert Ellis Dunn
22. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Fred Astaire
Merce Cunningham
Bill T. Jones
Balanchine
23. Listed as choreographer of Giselle because He was widely respected
Mary Wigman
Arthur Saint-Leon
Balanchine
Jean Coralli
24. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Balanchine
Theophile Gautier
Ginger Rogers
Nijinsky
25. Musician who had an impact on Modern Dance -Created choreography at Merce Cunningham's Studio
Alwin Nikolais
Robert Ellis Dunn
Ginger Rogers
Alvin Ailey
26. Composer for 'The Afternoon of a Faun'
Fokine
Dr. Louis Vernon
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Debussy
27. Shortened skirt to show off pointe work - starred in La Sylphide
Jean Baptiste Lande
George Balanchine
Nijinska
Marie Taglioni
28. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Balanchine
Louis Horst
Milhaud
Nijinska
29. Developed new ways to use light and movement in her choreography
Ruth St. Denis
Loie Fuller
Massine
Merce Cunningham
30. Choreographed La Sylphide
Joe Goode
Philip Taglioni
Marius Petipa
Merce Cunningham
31. Designed costumes and set of Afternoon of a Faune
Leon Bakst
Alwin Nikolais
Twyla Tharp
Theophile Gautier
32. African astheic choreography
Bill T. Jones
Balanchine
Mary Wigman
Ruth St. Denis
33. Known for brilliant divertissments
Marius Petipa
Ivanov
Merce Cunningham
Arthur Saint-Leon
34. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Jean Coralli
Anton Dolin
Marius Petipa
Paul Taylor
35. First female ballet choreographer of the 20th century
Arthur Mitchell
Merce Cunningham
Busby Berkeley
Nijinska
36. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Debussy
Suzanne Linglor
Robert Joffrey
Arthur Mitchell
37. Impressionist music
Debussy
Lincoln Kirstein
Paul Taylor
Suzanne Linglor
38. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German dance to U.S. but Americanized her technique.
Robert Joffrey
Loie Fuller
Bill T. Jones
Hanya Holm
39. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Robert Ellis Dunn
Massine
August Bournonville
Ivanov
40. Considered the greatest male dancer of the romantic era
Doris Humphrey
Rudolph Laban
Jules Perrot
Alwin Nikolais
41. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Joe Goode
Leon Bakst
Dr. Louis Vernon
42. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Garth Fagan
Charles Weidman
Mary Wigman
Fred Astaire
43. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Arthur Mitchell
Paul Taylor
Bill T. Jones
Milhaud
44. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Alwin Nikolais
George Balanchine
Debussy
Diaghilev
45. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Pilobolus
Theophile Gautier
Alwin Nikolais
Ginger Rogers
46. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Fokine
Nijinska
Louis Horst
Jean Baptiste Lande
47. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Rudolph Nureyev
Leon Bakst
Charles Didelot
Diaghilev
48. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Margaret Sanger
Anna Pavlova
Alvin Ailey
Ivanov
49. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Pilobolus
Louis Horst
Busby Berkeley
Jean Coralli
50. Brought ballet to Paris
Merce Cunningham
Diaghilev
Hanya Holm
Leon Bakst