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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. Four Temperaments
Hanya Holm
Alvin Ailey
Balanchine
Merce Cunningham
2. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Alvin Ailey
Charles Didelot
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Rudolph Laban
3. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Alvin Ailey
Robert Ellis Dunn
Nijinska
Ginger Rogers
4. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Margaret Sanger
Charles Didelot
Joe Goode
Garth Fagan
5. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Ruby Keeler
Fred Astaire
Suzanne Linglor
Ginger Rogers
6. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Merce Cunningham
Folkine - Nijinsky
George Balanchine
Massine
7. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Louis Horst
Alwin Nikolais
Balanchine
Philip Taglioni
8. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Marius Petipa
Mary Wigman
Milhaud
Paul Taylor
9. Known for two ballet styles of Symphonic ballet: comedic and satirical
Massine
August Bournonville
Doris Humphrey
Anton Dolin
10. Pelvic contraction and release
Louis Horst
Doris Humphrey
Robert Ellis Dunn
Paul Taylor
11. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Jean Coralli
Hanya Holm
Pilobolus
Robert Ellis Dunn
12. Petrouchka
Fanny Elssler
Lucien Petipa
Leon Bakst
Fokine
13. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Fokine
Robert Ellis Dunn
Paul Taylor
Balanchine
14. Acts of Light
Martha Graham
Doris Humphrey
Rudolph Nureyev
Merce Cunningham
15. D Man in the Water
Louis Horst
Robert Ellis Dunn
Bill T. Jones
Arthur Mitchell
16. La Spectre de la Rose
Milhaud
Diaghilev
Folkine - Nijinsky
Massine
17. Points in Space -Composer: John Cage(partner) -Taught by Martha Graham
Fred Astaire
Bill T. Jones
Balanchine
Merce Cunningham
18. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Anton Dolin
Massine
Jean Baptiste Lande
Balanchine
19. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Fokine
Nijinska
Rudolph Nureyev
Milhaud
20. Named the mother of modern dance
Doris Humphrey
Rudolph Nureyev
Ruby Keeler
Mary Wigman
21. Danced in Berkeley's movies - First movie dancing star of 1930's 42nd street led to her success
Nijinsky
Ruby Keeler
Merce Cunningham
Louis Horst
22. Choregraphed (the sleeping beauty and nutcracker - swan lake)
Fokine
August Bournonville
Diaghilev
Marius Petipa
23. Starred in Prince of Whales
Rudolph Nureyev
Dr. Louis Vernon
Anton Dolin
Robert Ellis Dunn
24. Still/Here
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Anna Pavlova
Diaghilev
Bill T. Jones
25. Known for brilliant divertissments
Doris Humphrey
Balanchine
Arthur Saint-Leon
Charles Weidman
26. Class grew into Judson's Church Group
Merce Cunningham
Balanchine
Robert Ellis Dunn
Alvin Ailey
27. Launched careers of 5 great choreographers
Folkine - Nijinsky
Alvin Ailey
Diaghilev
Mary Wigman
28. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Fokine
Theophile Gautier
Merce Cunningham
Pilobolus
29. Professional tennis player Who was known for using ballet skills on the court
Suzanne Linglor
Fokine
Rudolph Nureyev
August Bournonville
30. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet
Doris Humphrey
Dr. Louis Vernon
Robert Ellis Dunn
Anton Dolin
31. Movement in hips
Merce Cunningham
Arthur Mitchell
Garth Fagan
Leon Bakst
32. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Anton Dolin
Doris Humphrey
Rudolph Nureyev
Fokine
33. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Paul Taylor
Diaghilev
Anna Pavlova
Louis Horst
34. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Milhaud
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Mary Wigman
Ivanov
35. Choreographed Deeply There in 1988 in response to the AIDS epidemic
Theophile Gautier
Ivanov
Joe Goode
Marie Taglioni
36. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
August Bournonville
Jules Perrot
Marius Petipa
Anna Pavlova
37. African astheic choreography
Balanchine
Merce Cunningham
Fokine
Jose Limon
38. One of the most prolific jazz composers of the 20th century
Rudolph Nureyev
Hanya Holm
Milhaud
Mary Wigman
39. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Hanya Holm
Anton Dolin
Leon Bakst
Fred Astaire
40. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Doris Humphrey
August Bournonville
Nijinska
Arthur Saint-Leon
41. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Doris Humphrey
Rudolph Nureyev
Milhaud
Rudolph Laban
42. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Pilobolus
Robert Ellis Dunn
Philip Taglioni
Charles Weidman
43. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Charles Didelot
Charles Weidman
Hanya Holm
Anna Pavlova
44. Choreographed 'Revelations'
Alvin Ailey
Arthur Saint-Leon
Jean Baptiste Lande
Jules Perrot
45. Turned profits by slashing salaries of ballerinas so jockey club friends could have them as mistresses
Loie Fuller
Dr. Louis Vernon
Bill T. Jones
Joe Goode
46. 1st Albrecht
Ruth St. Denis
Dr. Louis Vernon
August Bournonville
Lucien Petipa
47. Chance dance' - focusing on the dance itself and was not interested in telling a story (fliped a coin)
Merce Cunningham
Hanya Holm
Rudolph Nureyev
Charles Weidman
48. Rite of Spring
Nijinsky
Nijinska
Margaret Sanger
Merce Cunningham
49. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Anna Pavlova
Pilobolus
Theophile Gautier
Robert Joffrey
50. Choreographed La Sylphide
Philip Taglioni
Diaghilev
Merce Cunningham
Loie Fuller