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Dance Famous People
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Paul Taylor
Fokine
Busby Berkeley
Rudolph Nureyev
2. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Nijinsky
Paul Taylor
Debussy
Ruby Keeler
3. Pioneer of modern dance in Germany
Anton Dolin
Debussy
Mary Wigman
Merce Cunningham
4. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Folkine - Nijinsky
Pilobolus
Marie Taglioni
Mary Wigman
5. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Mary Wigman
Anton Dolin
Charles Didelot
Margaret Sanger
6. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Nijinsky
Jean Baptiste Lande
Bill T. Jones
Loie Fuller
7. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Alvin Ailey
August Bournonville
Mary Wigman
Philip Taglioni
8. Musician who had an impact on Modern Dance -Created choreography at Merce Cunningham's Studio
Louis Horst
Robert Ellis Dunn
Suzanne Linglor
Rudolph Nureyev
9. Designed costumes and set of Afternoon of a Faune
Robert Ellis Dunn
Hanya Holm
Leon Bakst
Mikhail Baryshnikov
10. Starred in Prince of Whales
Twyla Tharp
Anton Dolin
Diaghilev
Dr. Louis Vernon
11. Still/Here
Marie Taglioni
Bill T. Jones
George Balanchine
Balanchine
12. First lady of modern dance
Charles Didelot
Ruth St. Denis
August Bournonville
Jules Perrot
13. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Massine
Fred Astaire
Robert Joffrey
Rudolph Nureyev
14. Defected from Russia to US -Greatest danseur of the 20th century.
Rudolph Nureyev
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Debussy
Anton Dolin
15. Movement in hips
Anton Dolin
Ivanov
Paul Taylor
Arthur Mitchell
16. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Hanya Holm
Marius Petipa
Rudolph Nureyev
Alwin Nikolais
17. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Hanya Holm
Milhaud
Merce Cunningham
Balanchine
18. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Fokine
Alvin Ailey
Anton Dolin
Balanchine
19. AVANT GARDE -CHOREOGRAPHED AUREOLE
Debussy
Nijinska
Paul Taylor
Charles Didelot
20. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Nijinska
Nijinsky
Robert Ellis Dunn
Charles Weidman
21. African astheic choreography
Balanchine
Nijinsky
Ruth St. Denis
Margaret Sanger
22. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Rudolph Nureyev
Busby Berkeley
Ivanov
Ruth St. Denis
23. Known for brilliant divertissments
Loie Fuller
Arthur Saint-Leon
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Nijinsky
24. Afternoon of a Faun
Debussy
Martha Graham
Diaghilev
Nijinsky
25. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Leon Bakst
Marius Petipa
Rudolph Nureyev
Alvin Ailey
26. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Robert Joffrey
Paul Taylor
Charles Weidman
Charles Didelot
27. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Arthur Saint-Leon
Leon Bakst
Alvin Ailey
Alwin Nikolais
28. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Nijinska
Theophile Gautier
Diaghilev
Ginger Rogers
29. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Ivanov
Lucien Petipa
Charles Didelot
Joe Goode
30. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Arthur Mitchell
Leon Bakst
Alwin Nikolais
Margaret Sanger
31. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Joe Goode
Marius Petipa
Nijinska
George Balanchine
32. Class grew into Judson's Church Group
Rudolph Laban
Pilobolus
Robert Ellis Dunn
Milhaud
33. Writer of Giselle
Diaghilev
Theophile Gautier
Anton Dolin
Arthur Saint-Leon
34. Noted for his use of African elements
Balanchine
Busby Berkeley
Hanya Holm
Alvin Ailey
35. Known for two ballet styles of Symphonic ballet: comedic and satirical
Massine
Hanya Holm
Theophile Gautier
Jean Baptiste Lande
36. Co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet
Philip Taglioni
Mikhail Baryshnikov
George Balanchine
Ivanov
37. 1st Albrecht
Balanchine
Lucien Petipa
Dr. Louis Vernon
Milhaud
38. Brought ballet to Paris
Twyla Tharp
Charles Didelot
Diaghilev
Busby Berkeley
39. Danced in Berkeley's movies - First movie dancing star of 1930's 42nd street led to her success
Debussy
Ruby Keeler
Arthur Saint-Leon
Bill T. Jones
40. Listed as choreographer of Giselle because He was widely respected
Mary Wigman
Pilobolus
Diaghilev
Jean Coralli
41. Professional tennis player Who was known for using ballet skills on the court
Bill T. Jones
Rudolph Nureyev
Fokine
Suzanne Linglor
42. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Balanchine
Fred Astaire
Charles Didelot
Jules Perrot
43. Agon - 1957
Fokine
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Balanchine
Suzanne Linglor
44. Impressionist music
Busby Berkeley
Charles Didelot
Debussy
Diaghilev
45. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Mary Wigman
Theophile Gautier
Doris Humphrey
Merce Cunningham
46. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer
Marius Petipa
Debussy
Theophile Gautier
Jose Limon
47. Pelvic contraction and release
George Balanchine
Ginger Rogers
Louis Horst
Robert Ellis Dunn
48. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Ruby Keeler
Suzanne Linglor
Rudolph Nureyev
Twyla Tharp
49. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Merce Cunningham
Paul Taylor
Doris Humphrey
Nijinska
50. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Arthur Mitchell
Fokine
Jose Limon
Ruth St. Denis