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Dance Famous People
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1. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Loie Fuller
Hanya Holm
Jules Perrot
Doris Humphrey
2. Choregraphed (the sleeping beauty and nutcracker - swan lake)
Busby Berkeley
Marius Petipa
Paul Taylor
Ruth St. Denis
3. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet
Jules Perrot
Robert Joffrey
Robert Ellis Dunn
Anton Dolin
4. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Rudolph Nureyev
Diaghilev
Massine
Charles Weidman
5. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Rudolph Laban
Nijinska
Ruth St. Denis
Robert Ellis Dunn
6. AVANT GARDE -CHOREOGRAPHED AUREOLE
Paul Taylor
Charles Didelot
Alvin Ailey
Mikhail Baryshnikov
7. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Robert Joffrey
Arthur Saint-Leon
Twyla Tharp
Rudolph Laban
8. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Balanchine
Marius Petipa
Diaghilev
Robert Joffrey
9. Movement in hips
Arthur Mitchell
Ivanov
Theophile Gautier
Milhaud
10. Co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet
Arthur Mitchell
Debussy
George Balanchine
Mikhail Baryshnikov
11. Choreographed Lion King
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Ivanov
Garth Fagan
Doris Humphrey
12. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Merce Cunningham
Jules Perrot
Busby Berkeley
Nijinska
13. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Balanchine
Fokine
Merce Cunningham
Charles Weidman
14. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Milhaud
George Balanchine
Rudolph Nureyev
Leon Bakst
15. Choreographed Coppelia
Arthur Saint-Leon
Nijinska
Marius Petipa
Rudolph Nureyev
16. Musician who had an impact on Modern Dance -Created choreography at Merce Cunningham's Studio
Jules Perrot
Bill T. Jones
Robert Ellis Dunn
Pilobolus
17. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Louis Horst
Arthur Saint-Leon
August Bournonville
Ruby Keeler
18. 1st Albrecht
Ruth St. Denis
Lucien Petipa
Mary Wigman
Bill T. Jones
19. The art of making dances - 1959
Arthur Mitchell
Lincoln Kirstein
Merce Cunningham
Doris Humphrey
20. Financed Balanchine to come to US - helped found New York City Ballet - served as general director
Lincoln Kirstein
Jules Perrot
Folkine - Nijinsky
Nijinska
21. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Fred Astaire
Robert Joffrey
Diaghilev
Busby Berkeley
22. Developed new ways to use light and movement in her choreography
Balanchine
Bill T. Jones
Merce Cunningham
Loie Fuller
23. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Diaghilev
Anton Dolin
Mary Wigman
Jose Limon
24. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Nijinska
Robert Ellis Dunn
Theophile Gautier
Milhaud
25. Points in Space -Composer: John Cage(partner) -Taught by Martha Graham
Bill T. Jones
Jean Baptiste Lande
Merce Cunningham
Anna Pavlova
26. Known for brilliant divertissments
Louis Horst
Marius Petipa
Martha Graham
Arthur Saint-Leon
27. Four Temperaments
Massine
Fokine
Arthur Saint-Leon
Balanchine
28. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Nijinska
Fokine
Ivanov
Loie Fuller
29. Designed costumes and set of Afternoon of a Faune
Leon Bakst
Ivanov
Ruby Keeler
Fanny Elssler
30. Pelvic contraction and release
Diaghilev
Louis Horst
Dr. Louis Vernon
Mary Wigman
31. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Debussy
Fokine
Marius Petipa
Balanchine
32. Launched careers of 5 great choreographers
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Mary Wigman
Diaghilev
Rudolph Nureyev
33. Considered the greatest male dancer of the romantic era
Diaghilev
Twyla Tharp
Diaghilev
Jules Perrot
34. Choreographed La Sylphide
Hanya Holm
Philip Taglioni
Louis Horst
Jean Jacques Rousseau
35. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Rudolph Nureyev
Marie Taglioni
Milhaud
Debussy
36. First female ballet choreographer of the 20th century
Pilobolus
Charles Weidman
Louis Horst
Nijinska
37. Father of classical ballet
Paul Taylor
Fokine
Marius Petipa
Fanny Elssler
38. Noted for his use of African elements
Loie Fuller
Diaghilev
Alvin Ailey
Robert Ellis Dunn
39. Still/Here
Leon Bakst
Merce Cunningham
George Balanchine
Bill T. Jones
40. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Debussy
Theophile Gautier
Arthur Mitchell
Diaghilev
41. Class grew into Judson's Church Group
Robert Ellis Dunn
Louis Horst
Robert Joffrey
Mary Wigman
42. Choreographed 'Revelations'
Diaghilev
Bill T. Jones
Alvin Ailey
Diaghilev
43. African astheic choreography
Robert Ellis Dunn
Balanchine
Merce Cunningham
Anna Pavlova
44. Wrote against male dancers
Arthur Mitchell
Theophile Gautier
Folkine - Nijinsky
Leon Bakst
45. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Ginger Rogers
Ivanov
Busby Berkeley
Balanchine
46. REBELLED AGAINST IDEA THAT DANCE HAD TO HAVE MEANING
Alvin Ailey
Doris Humphrey
Paul Taylor
Merce Cunningham
47. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Arthur Mitchell
Marius Petipa
Anton Dolin
Leon Bakst
48. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Alwin Nikolais
Nijinska
Rudolph Nureyev
Charles Didelot
49. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Charles Didelot
Doris Humphrey
Nijinska
Alwin Nikolais
50. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Pilobolus
Folkine - Nijinsky
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Ivanov