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Dance Famous People
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1. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Coralli
Paul Taylor
August Bournonville
2. Choregraphed (the sleeping beauty and nutcracker - swan lake)
Twyla Tharp
Bill T. Jones
Hanya Holm
Marius Petipa
3. Choreographed Jeux
Nijinsky
Balanchine
Hanya Holm
Bill T. Jones
4. African astheic choreography
Diaghilev
Theophile Gautier
Pilobolus
Balanchine
5. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Fokine
Merce Cunningham
Theophile Gautier
Busby Berkeley
6. First lady of modern dance
Nijinska
Ruth St. Denis
Theophile Gautier
Alvin Ailey
7. Designed costumes and set of Afternoon of a Faune
Leon Bakst
Martha Graham
Charles Didelot
Robert Ellis Dunn
8. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Paul Taylor
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Rudolph Nureyev
Nijinsky
9. Apollo - 1928
Balanchine
Fanny Elssler
Milhaud
Ivanov
10. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Hanya Holm
Anton Dolin
Louis Horst
Joe Goode
11. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Jose Limon
Alwin Nikolais
Ruth St. Denis
Jean Baptiste Lande
12. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Suzanne Linglor
Arthur Saint-Leon
Leon Bakst
Nijinska
13. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Folkine - Nijinsky
Robert Ellis Dunn
Balanchine
Ruth St. Denis
14. 1st Albrecht
Lucien Petipa
Nijinska
Anton Dolin
Robert Ellis Dunn
15. Four Temperaments
Alvin Ailey
Balanchine
Louis Horst
Alwin Nikolais
16. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Mary Wigman
Busby Berkeley
Mary Wigman
Ivanov
17. Brought ballet to the common person
Robert Ellis Dunn
Anna Pavlova
Robert Joffrey
Debussy
18. Professional tennis player Who was known for using ballet skills on the court
Arthur Mitchell
Marie Taglioni
Louis Horst
Suzanne Linglor
19. Starred in Prince of Whales
Merce Cunningham
Merce Cunningham
Arthur Mitchell
Anton Dolin
20. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Paul Taylor
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Charles Weidman
Robert Ellis Dunn
21. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Debussy
Rudolph Laban
Fred Astaire
Lucien Petipa
22. Known for her 'Pagan' style of dance
Leon Bakst
Merce Cunningham
Ivanov
Fanny Elssler
23. African American modern Dance choreographer
Bill T. Jones
Jules Perrot
Ruth St. Denis
Margaret Sanger
24. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Milhaud
Doris Humphrey
Massine
Balanchine
25. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Mary Wigman
Ivanov
Jose Limon
Busby Berkeley
26. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Lucien Petipa
Louis Horst
Arthur Mitchell
Doris Humphrey
27. Still/Here
Jules Perrot
Robert Joffrey
Martha Graham
Bill T. Jones
28. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Arthur Saint-Leon
Milhaud
Twyla Tharp
Ivanov
29. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Anton Dolin
Mary Wigman
August Bournonville
30. Agon - 1957
Busby Berkeley
Theophile Gautier
Leon Bakst
Balanchine
31. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Philip Taglioni
Fanny Elssler
Charles Weidman
Mikhail Baryshnikov
32. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Arthur Mitchell
Twyla Tharp
Fokine
Theophile Gautier
33. One of the most prolific jazz composers of the 20th century
Lincoln Kirstein
Jules Perrot
Marius Petipa
Milhaud
34. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Joe Goode
Fokine
Marius Petipa
Anton Dolin
35. Impressionist music
Debussy
Theophile Gautier
Anna Pavlova
Anton Dolin
36. REBELLED AGAINST IDEA THAT DANCE HAD TO HAVE MEANING
Leon Bakst
Merce Cunningham
Nijinska
Fred Astaire
37. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Marius Petipa
Lucien Petipa
Leon Bakst
Busby Berkeley
38. Acts of Light
Marius Petipa
Ivanov
Martha Graham
Ginger Rogers
39. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Twyla Tharp
Doris Humphrey
Alwin Nikolais
Robert Joffrey
40. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Lincoln Kirstein
Dr. Louis Vernon
Milhaud
Marius Petipa
41. Co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet
George Balanchine
Theophile Gautier
Nijinsky
Robert Ellis Dunn
42. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
Jules Perrot
Lincoln Kirstein
Milhaud
Jean Coralli
43. Father of Russian ballet
Lucien Petipa
Robert Ellis Dunn
Rudolph Laban
Charles Didelot
44. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Alwin Nikolais
Marie Taglioni
Martha Graham
Nijinska
45. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Suzanne Linglor
Rudolph Nureyev
Arthur Mitchell
Theophile Gautier
46. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Alvin Ailey
Bill T. Jones
Fokine
Busby Berkeley
47. Class grew into Judson's Church Group
Robert Ellis Dunn
Suzanne Linglor
Diaghilev
Fokine
48. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Ivanov
Fokine
Diaghilev
Arthur Saint-Leon
49. Danced in Berkeley's movies - First movie dancing star of 1930's 42nd street led to her success
Ruby Keeler
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Alwin Nikolais
August Bournonville
50. First male dancer to make an impression in U.S.
Rudolph Nureyev
Fokine
Fokine
Anton Dolin