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Dance Famous People
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1. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Marius Petipa
Robert Ellis Dunn
Pilobolus
Loie Fuller
2. Professional tennis player Who was known for using ballet skills on the court
Martha Graham
Suzanne Linglor
Alvin Ailey
George Balanchine
3. Noted for his use of African elements
Anton Dolin
Alvin Ailey
Doris Humphrey
Massine
4. Known for two ballet styles of Symphonic ballet: comedic and satirical
Hanya Holm
Balanchine
Louis Horst
Massine
5. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Leon Bakst
Bill T. Jones
Rudolph Nureyev
Robert Ellis Dunn
6. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer
Theophile Gautier
Fokine
Balanchine
Jose Limon
7. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Arthur Saint-Leon
Fred Astaire
Ivanov
Nijinska
8. 1st Albrecht
Doris Humphrey
Lucien Petipa
Merce Cunningham
Busby Berkeley
9. Still/Here
Fred Astaire
Bill T. Jones
Rudolph Nureyev
Mikhail Baryshnikov
10. Choreographed Lion King
Garth Fagan
Philip Taglioni
Theophile Gautier
Debussy
11. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Charles Didelot
Martha Graham
Debussy
Diaghilev
12. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Balanchine
Busby Berkeley
Paul Taylor
Debussy
13. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet
Anton Dolin
Milhaud
Mary Wigman
Pilobolus
14. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Fokine
Debussy
Alwin Nikolais
Doris Humphrey
15. Known for her 'Pagan' style of dance
Merce Cunningham
Anna Pavlova
Fanny Elssler
Margaret Sanger
16. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Margaret Sanger
Nijinsky
Paul Taylor
Mary Wigman
17. Four Temperaments
Rudolph Nureyev
Balanchine
Rudolph Laban
Louis Horst
18. One of the most prolific jazz composers of the 20th century
Milhaud
Bill T. Jones
Doris Humphrey
Loie Fuller
19. Choreographed La Sylphide
Lincoln Kirstein
Nijinsky
Philip Taglioni
Nijinsky
20. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Hanya Holm
Fokine
Fokine
Anton Dolin
21. Known for brilliant divertissments
Theophile Gautier
Arthur Saint-Leon
Rudolph Nureyev
Bill T. Jones
22. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Leon Bakst
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Arthur Mitchell
Anton Dolin
23. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Robert Ellis Dunn
Dr. Louis Vernon
Alwin Nikolais
Massine
24. Acts of Light
Mary Wigman
Martha Graham
Rudolph Nureyev
Jean Coralli
25. Petrouchka
Charles Didelot
Fokine
Suzanne Linglor
Jean Jacques Rousseau
26. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Bill T. Jones
Rudolph Nureyev
Joe Goode
Anton Dolin
27. Considered the greatest male dancer of the romantic era
Rudolph Nureyev
Jules Perrot
Jean Coralli
Theophile Gautier
28. Father of Russian ballet
Alwin Nikolais
Balanchine
Charles Didelot
Jean Jacques Rousseau
29. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Arthur Mitchell
Alwin Nikolais
Rudolph Nureyev
Loie Fuller
30. Composer for 'The Afternoon of a Faun'
Lucien Petipa
Alvin Ailey
Debussy
Balanchine
31. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Anna Pavlova
Anton Dolin
Fred Astaire
Hanya Holm
32. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
Jules Perrot
Hanya Holm
Marius Petipa
Arthur Saint-Leon
33. Pioneer of modern dance in Germany
Mary Wigman
Massine
Anton Dolin
Marius Petipa
34. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Anton Dolin
Folkine - Nijinsky
Milhaud
Ivanov
35. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Ruby Keeler
Jean Baptiste Lande
Folkine - Nijinsky
Arthur Mitchell
36. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Jose Limon
Twyla Tharp
Nijinsky
Mary Wigman
37. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Martha Graham
Lincoln Kirstein
Rudolph Laban
Debussy
38. Rite of Spring
Marius Petipa
Nijinsky
Jean Baptiste Lande
Rudolph Nureyev
39. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Philip Taglioni
Fokine
Diaghilev
Ginger Rogers
40. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
August Bournonville
Milhaud
Busby Berkeley
Merce Cunningham
41. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Nijinska
Theophile Gautier
Alvin Ailey
Arthur Saint-Leon
42. Apollo - 1928
Theophile Gautier
Fokine
Balanchine
Busby Berkeley
43. Brought ballet to the common person
Nijinsky
Nijinska
Arthur Saint-Leon
Anna Pavlova
44. Pelvic contraction and release
Louis Horst
Alvin Ailey
Ginger Rogers
Leon Bakst
45. Founded American Dance Theater in New York City
Diaghilev
Nijinska
Robert Joffrey
Alvin Ailey
46. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Ruth St. Denis
Balanchine
Marius Petipa
Bill T. Jones
47. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Fokine
Nijinska
Fokine
Merce Cunningham
48. Wrote against male dancers
Folkine - Nijinsky
Merce Cunningham
Theophile Gautier
Lincoln Kirstein
49. Named the mother of modern dance
Twyla Tharp
Jules Perrot
Mary Wigman
Merce Cunningham
50. AVANT GARDE -CHOREOGRAPHED AUREOLE
Massine
Suzanne Linglor
Paul Taylor
George Balanchine