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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. Wrote against male dancers
Doris Humphrey
Theophile Gautier
Dr. Louis Vernon
Marie Taglioni
2. Named the mother of modern dance
Mary Wigman
Fokine
Arthur Mitchell
Debussy
3. Four Temperaments
Merce Cunningham
Balanchine
Martha Graham
Mary Wigman
4. Pioneer of modern dance in Germany
Mary Wigman
Charles Didelot
Loie Fuller
Twyla Tharp
5. Professional tennis player Who was known for using ballet skills on the court
Philip Taglioni
Debussy
Ruby Keeler
Suzanne Linglor
6. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Alwin Nikolais
Suzanne Linglor
George Balanchine
Balanchine
7. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Jean Baptiste Lande
Jules Perrot
Robert Ellis Dunn
Rudolph Nureyev
8. Still/Here
Ivanov
Bill T. Jones
Dr. Louis Vernon
Marius Petipa
9. African astheic choreography
Milhaud
Twyla Tharp
Ruth St. Denis
Balanchine
10. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Marie Taglioni
Balanchine
Robert Ellis Dunn
11. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Theophile Gautier
Massine
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Rudolph Nureyev
12. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet
Ruth St. Denis
Suzanne Linglor
Merce Cunningham
Anton Dolin
13. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Ginger Rogers
Nijinska
Merce Cunningham
Paul Taylor
14. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Nijinsky
Ivanov
Marius Petipa
Bill T. Jones
15. Rite of Spring
Debussy
Massine
Balanchine
Nijinsky
16. One of the most prolific jazz composers of the 20th century
Massine
Charles Didelot
Milhaud
Ruby Keeler
17. Choreographed Jeux
Nijinsky
Anton Dolin
Charles Didelot
Jean Jacques Rousseau
18. Danced in Berkeley's movies - First movie dancing star of 1930's 42nd street led to her success
Nijinsky
Ruby Keeler
Balanchine
Marius Petipa
19. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Robert Ellis Dunn
Robert Joffrey
Diaghilev
Jules Perrot
20. Apollo - 1928
Nijinska
Balanchine
Anna Pavlova
Charles Didelot
21. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Arthur Saint-Leon
Pilobolus
Dr. Louis Vernon
Leon Bakst
22. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Marius Petipa
Nijinsky
Mary Wigman
23. First lady of modern dance
Diaghilev
Mary Wigman
Ruth St. Denis
Rudolph Nureyev
24. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Ruby Keeler
Lincoln Kirstein
Joe Goode
Mary Wigman
25. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Leon Bakst
Jean Coralli
Charles Weidman
Arthur Mitchell
26. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Milhaud
Robert Joffrey
Theophile Gautier
Twyla Tharp
27. Father of Russian ballet
Charles Didelot
Paul Taylor
Louis Horst
Ivanov
28. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Margaret Sanger
Bill T. Jones
Hanya Holm
Suzanne Linglor
29. Composer for 'The Afternoon of a Faun'
Lucien Petipa
Debussy
George Balanchine
Jules Perrot
30. Chance dance' - focusing on the dance itself and was not interested in telling a story (fliped a coin)
Merce Cunningham
Balanchine
Balanchine
Fanny Elssler
31. Choreographed Lion King
Garth Fagan
Mary Wigman
Mary Wigman
Rudolph Nureyev
32. Points in Space -Composer: John Cage(partner) -Taught by Martha Graham
Paul Taylor
Arthur Mitchell
Merce Cunningham
Rudolph Nureyev
33. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Robert Ellis Dunn
Nijinska
Bill T. Jones
Philip Taglioni
34. Founded American Dance Theater in New York City
Alvin Ailey
Lincoln Kirstein
Balanchine
Milhaud
35. REBELLED AGAINST IDEA THAT DANCE HAD TO HAVE MEANING
Merce Cunningham
Fokine
Pilobolus
Marie Taglioni
36. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Margaret Sanger
Busby Berkeley
Jules Perrot
Marius Petipa
37. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Merce Cunningham
Mary Wigman
Twyla Tharp
Busby Berkeley
38. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Theophile Gautier
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Ivanov
Dr. Louis Vernon
39. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Nijinska
Anna Pavlova
Rudolph Nureyev
Rudolph Laban
40. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Theophile Gautier
Twyla Tharp
Robert Ellis Dunn
Marius Petipa
41. Choreographed La Sylphide
Fanny Elssler
Nijinsky
Philip Taglioni
Merce Cunningham
42. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Theophile Gautier
Nijinska
Anton Dolin
August Bournonville
43. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Doris Humphrey
Merce Cunningham
Charles Didelot
Bill T. Jones
44. Turned profits by slashing salaries of ballerinas so jockey club friends could have them as mistresses
Dr. Louis Vernon
Ruth St. Denis
Lucien Petipa
Charles Didelot
45. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Rudolph Nureyev
Fokine
Marius Petipa
Diaghilev
46. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Marius Petipa
Merce Cunningham
Fanny Elssler
Garth Fagan
47. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Arthur Saint-Leon
Nijinska
Alwin Nikolais
Alvin Ailey
48. Afternoon of a Faun
Ivanov
Hanya Holm
Nijinsky
Anton Dolin
49. La Spectre de la Rose
Alwin Nikolais
Merce Cunningham
Folkine - Nijinsky
Jean Coralli
50. Financed Balanchine to come to US - helped found New York City Ballet - served as general director
Alvin Ailey
Lincoln Kirstein
Robert Ellis Dunn
Massine