SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Dance Famous People
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
performing-arts
,
dance
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Writer of Giselle
Lucien Petipa
Hanya Holm
Nijinsky
Theophile Gautier
2. Known for brilliant divertissments
Jean Baptiste Lande
Philip Taglioni
Arthur Saint-Leon
Massine
3. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
August Bournonville
Merce Cunningham
Dr. Louis Vernon
Alwin Nikolais
4. Brought ballet to Paris
Diaghilev
Marius Petipa
Mary Wigman
Arthur Mitchell
5. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Bill T. Jones
Rudolph Nureyev
Arthur Saint-Leon
Ruth St. Denis
6. One of the most prolific jazz composers of the 20th century
Martha Graham
Ivanov
Debussy
Milhaud
7. First female ballet choreographer of the 20th century
Louis Horst
Fokine
Nijinska
Jose Limon
8. African American modern Dance choreographer
Rudolph Laban
Bill T. Jones
Balanchine
Hanya Holm
9. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Debussy
Rudolph Nureyev
Folkine - Nijinsky
Pilobolus
10. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Philip Taglioni
Rudolph Nureyev
Doris Humphrey
Arthur Saint-Leon
11. Designed costumes and set of Afternoon of a Faune
Fokine
Jules Perrot
Merce Cunningham
Leon Bakst
12. Choreographed 'Revelations'
Charles Didelot
Alvin Ailey
Busby Berkeley
Anton Dolin
13. Co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet
Leon Bakst
Ivanov
George Balanchine
Balanchine
14. Financed Balanchine to come to US - helped found New York City Ballet - served as general director
Robert Joffrey
Lincoln Kirstein
Alvin Ailey
Joe Goode
15. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Nijinska
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Alvin Ailey
Robert Ellis Dunn
16. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Rudolph Nureyev
Nijinsky
Theophile Gautier
Philip Taglioni
17. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Massine
Fokine
Bill T. Jones
Twyla Tharp
18. Noted for his use of African elements
Robert Ellis Dunn
Diaghilev
Alvin Ailey
Dr. Louis Vernon
19. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Bill T. Jones
Ivanov
Robert Ellis Dunn
Marius Petipa
20. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Jean Baptiste Lande
Balanchine
Balanchine
Jean Jacques Rousseau
21. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Margaret Sanger
Arthur Mitchell
Jean Baptiste Lande
Doris Humphrey
22. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Twyla Tharp
Fokine
Mary Wigman
Pilobolus
23. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Milhaud
Nijinsky
Philip Taglioni
Robert Joffrey
24. Class grew into Judson's Church Group
Massine
Robert Ellis Dunn
Theophile Gautier
Martha Graham
25. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
Doris Humphrey
Balanchine
Pilobolus
Jules Perrot
26. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Lucien Petipa
Diaghilev
Bill T. Jones
Charles Didelot
27. Father of Russian ballet
Alwin Nikolais
Balanchine
Charles Didelot
Nijinsky
28. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
August Bournonville
Martha Graham
Anton Dolin
29. Choreographed Coppelia
Jose Limon
Theophile Gautier
Hanya Holm
Arthur Saint-Leon
30. Impressionist music
Debussy
Diaghilev
Pilobolus
Mikhail Baryshnikov
31. REBELLED AGAINST IDEA THAT DANCE HAD TO HAVE MEANING
Ruby Keeler
Merce Cunningham
Busby Berkeley
Marius Petipa
32. Pelvic contraction and release
Twyla Tharp
Leon Bakst
Louis Horst
Doris Humphrey
33. La Spectre de la Rose
Alvin Ailey
Anna Pavlova
Fokine
Folkine - Nijinsky
34. Played Swanilda in Coppelia
Doris Humphrey
Marius Petipa
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Dr. Louis Vernon
35. Rite of Spring
Charles Didelot
Diaghilev
Fokine
Nijinsky
36. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Folkine - Nijinsky
Alvin Ailey
Massine
Milhaud
37. Apollo - 1928
Balanchine
Fokine
Rudolph Nureyev
Suzanne Linglor
38. Choreographed Lion King
Philip Taglioni
Charles Didelot
Garth Fagan
Hanya Holm
39. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Louis Horst
Bill T. Jones
Nijinska
Margaret Sanger
40. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German dance to U.S. but Americanized her technique.
Arthur Saint-Leon
Leon Bakst
Marius Petipa
Hanya Holm
41. Turned profits by slashing salaries of ballerinas so jockey club friends could have them as mistresses
Ruth St. Denis
Alvin Ailey
Dr. Louis Vernon
Robert Ellis Dunn
42. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Paul Taylor
Fokine
Hanya Holm
Louis Horst
43. Modern dance company that started in 1971
Fanny Elssler
Arthur Saint-Leon
Pilobolus
Folkine - Nijinsky
44. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Balanchine
Busby Berkeley
Nijinsky
Merce Cunningham
45. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Louis Horst
Louis Horst
Theophile Gautier
Nijinska
46. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Ivanov
Robert Joffrey
Marius Petipa
Louis Horst
47. D Man in the Water
Mary Wigman
Bill T. Jones
Nijinsky
Loie Fuller
48. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Hanya Holm
Mary Wigman
Milhaud
Nijinsky
49. Defected from Russia to US -Greatest danseur of the 20th century.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Theophile Gautier
Suzanne Linglor
Leon Bakst
50. Father of classical ballet
Ruby Keeler
Twyla Tharp
Marius Petipa
Pilobolus