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Dance Famous People
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1. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Nijinska
Louis Horst
Busby Berkeley
Merce Cunningham
2. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Mary Wigman
Marius Petipa
Mary Wigman
August Bournonville
3. La Spectre de la Rose
Milhaud
Rudolph Nureyev
Ruby Keeler
Folkine - Nijinsky
4. The art of making dances - 1959
Nijinska
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Nijinska
Doris Humphrey
5. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Marius Petipa
Alwin Nikolais
Charles Didelot
Mikhail Baryshnikov
6. Considered the greatest male dancer of the romantic era
Jules Perrot
Folkine - Nijinsky
Balanchine
Marie Taglioni
7. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Jean Baptiste Lande
Jose Limon
Robert Ellis Dunn
Margaret Sanger
8. Choreographed Jeux
Nijinsky
Balanchine
Bill T. Jones
Doris Humphrey
9. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Suzanne Linglor
Folkine - Nijinsky
Theophile Gautier
Busby Berkeley
10. Four Temperaments
Rudolph Laban
Robert Ellis Dunn
Balanchine
Theophile Gautier
11. 1st Albrecht
Robert Ellis Dunn
Leon Bakst
Busby Berkeley
Lucien Petipa
12. Starred in Prince of Whales
Doris Humphrey
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Fokine
Anton Dolin
13. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
Hanya Holm
Arthur Mitchell
Paul Taylor
Jules Perrot
14. Wrote against male dancers
Theophile Gautier
Nijinska
Alvin Ailey
Jean Jacques Rousseau
15. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Fokine
Ruby Keeler
Bill T. Jones
Theophile Gautier
16. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Alvin Ailey
Folkine - Nijinsky
Charles Didelot
Arthur Saint-Leon
17. Brought ballet to Paris
Alwin Nikolais
Diaghilev
Lincoln Kirstein
Paul Taylor
18. Pelvic contraction and release
Margaret Sanger
Louis Horst
Nijinsky
Nijinsky
19. Father of classical ballet
Marius Petipa
Robert Joffrey
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Margaret Sanger
20. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Charles Didelot
Balanchine
Nijinska
Milhaud
21. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Twyla Tharp
Bill T. Jones
Balanchine
Rudolph Laban
22. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Leon Bakst
Alvin Ailey
Folkine - Nijinsky
Paul Taylor
23. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Balanchine
Rudolph Nureyev
Loie Fuller
Merce Cunningham
24. Financed Balanchine to come to US - helped found New York City Ballet - served as general director
Nijinska
Robert Ellis Dunn
Mary Wigman
Lincoln Kirstein
25. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Mary Wigman
Rudolph Nureyev
Massine
Nijinsky
26. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Milhaud
Ruth St. Denis
Charles Weidman
Rudolph Nureyev
27. One of the most prolific jazz composers of the 20th century
Busby Berkeley
Milhaud
Arthur Saint-Leon
Fokine
28. Choreographed 'Revelations'
Bill T. Jones
Alvin Ailey
Leon Bakst
Mary Wigman
29. Listed as choreographer of Giselle because He was widely respected
Marius Petipa
Merce Cunningham
Louis Horst
Jean Coralli
30. Acts of Light
Balanchine
Busby Berkeley
Arthur Mitchell
Martha Graham
31. Founded American Dance Theater in New York City
Alvin Ailey
Martha Graham
Milhaud
Milhaud
32. Professional tennis player Who was known for using ballet skills on the court
Suzanne Linglor
Diaghilev
Alwin Nikolais
Marius Petipa
33. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Balanchine
Milhaud
Pilobolus
Theophile Gautier
34. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer
Charles Weidman
Jose Limon
Doris Humphrey
Arthur Saint-Leon
35. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Nijinska
Diaghilev
Philip Taglioni
Marie Taglioni
36. First female ballet choreographer of the 20th century
Rudolph Nureyev
Robert Ellis Dunn
Nijinska
Marius Petipa
37. Afternoon of a Faun
Doris Humphrey
Rudolph Laban
Nijinsky
Suzanne Linglor
38. D Man in the Water
Merce Cunningham
Ruth St. Denis
Bill T. Jones
Balanchine
39. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Mary Wigman
Theophile Gautier
Ruth St. Denis
Ruby Keeler
40. Choreographed Deeply There in 1988 in response to the AIDS epidemic
Joe Goode
Massine
Marius Petipa
Nijinsky
41. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Anton Dolin
Theophile Gautier
Fokine
Balanchine
42. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Leon Bakst
Debussy
Ivanov
43. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Nijinsky
Paul Taylor
Twyla Tharp
Joe Goode
44. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Nijinska
Diaghilev
Charles Didelot
Rudolph Laban
45. REBELLED AGAINST IDEA THAT DANCE HAD TO HAVE MEANING
Alvin Ailey
Ivanov
Merce Cunningham
Jules Perrot
46. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Robert Joffrey
Charles Didelot
Marius Petipa
Jean Jacques Rousseau
47. Petrouchka
Fokine
Merce Cunningham
Alvin Ailey
Nijinsky
48. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Doris Humphrey
Milhaud
Mary Wigman
Nijinsky
49. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Robert Ellis Dunn
Busby Berkeley
Ruth St. Denis
Rudolph Nureyev
50. Pioneer of modern dance in Germany
Marius Petipa
Ivanov
Mary Wigman
Marius Petipa
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