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Dance Famous People
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Leon Bakst
Ruby Keeler
Louis Horst
Rudolph Nureyev
2. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Rudolph Nureyev
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Milhaud
Joe Goode
3. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Paul Taylor
Alvin Ailey
Diaghilev
Ivanov
4. Apollo - 1928
Ivanov
Balanchine
Twyla Tharp
Ruth St. Denis
5. Choreographed Coppelia
Milhaud
Arthur Saint-Leon
Rudolph Laban
Garth Fagan
6. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Bill T. Jones
Merce Cunningham
Busby Berkeley
Dr. Louis Vernon
7. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Nijinsky
Charles Didelot
Ruth St. Denis
Fanny Elssler
8. Professional tennis player Who was known for using ballet skills on the court
Loie Fuller
Mary Wigman
Folkine - Nijinsky
Suzanne Linglor
9. Known for her 'Pagan' style of dance
Twyla Tharp
Fanny Elssler
George Balanchine
Nijinska
10. Impressionist music
Debussy
Nijinsky
Ruth St. Denis
Jules Perrot
11. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Theophile Gautier
Merce Cunningham
Milhaud
Fokine
12. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Merce Cunningham
Fokine
Robert Ellis Dunn
Rudolph Laban
13. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet
Rudolph Nureyev
Balanchine
Anton Dolin
Charles Weidman
14. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Diaghilev
Louis Horst
Bill T. Jones
Alvin Ailey
15. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Bill T. Jones
Fred Astaire
Hanya Holm
Pilobolus
16. Composer for 'The Afternoon of a Faun'
Charles Didelot
Massine
Charles Weidman
Debussy
17. First male dancer to make an impression in U.S.
Busby Berkeley
Mary Wigman
Rudolph Nureyev
Robert Joffrey
18. Founded American Dance Theater in New York City
Ruth St. Denis
Debussy
Alvin Ailey
Paul Taylor
19. Choreographed La Sylphide
Nijinska
Massine
Philip Taglioni
Louis Horst
20. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Milhaud
Margaret Sanger
Merce Cunningham
Massine
21. African astheic choreography
Diaghilev
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Balanchine
Nijinsky
22. Father of Russian ballet
Fokine
Paul Taylor
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Charles Didelot
23. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Merce Cunningham
Alwin Nikolais
Debussy
Doris Humphrey
24. Still/Here
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Suzanne Linglor
Bill T. Jones
25. Introduced flying wires - raised the standard of pointe work
Arthur Saint-Leon
Charles Didelot
Dr. Louis Vernon
Merce Cunningham
26. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Nijinska
Louis Horst
Balanchine
Alwin Nikolais
27. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Jean Baptiste Lande
Diaghilev
Charles Didelot
Pilobolus
28. Designed costumes and set of Afternoon of a Faune
Merce Cunningham
Anna Pavlova
Leon Bakst
Arthur Saint-Leon
29. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Massine
Alwin Nikolais
Jean Baptiste Lande
Rudolph Nureyev
30. Petrouchka
Robert Joffrey
Bill T. Jones
Fokine
Balanchine
31. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Margaret Sanger
Mary Wigman
Diaghilev
Nijinska
32. Known for two ballet styles of Symphonic ballet: comedic and satirical
Robert Ellis Dunn
Massine
Balanchine
Arthur Mitchell
33. Brought ballet to the common person
Hanya Holm
Anton Dolin
Anna Pavlova
Doris Humphrey
34. REBELLED AGAINST IDEA THAT DANCE HAD TO HAVE MEANING
Joe Goode
Merce Cunningham
Busby Berkeley
Alvin Ailey
35. Listed as choreographer of Giselle because He was widely respected
Diaghilev
Jean Coralli
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Twyla Tharp
36. Pelvic contraction and release
Ginger Rogers
Bill T. Jones
Louis Horst
Anton Dolin
37. Afternoon of a Faun
Leon Bakst
Bill T. Jones
Nijinsky
Rudolph Nureyev
38. Musician who had an impact on Modern Dance -Created choreography at Merce Cunningham's Studio
Rudolph Nureyev
Rudolph Nureyev
Ivanov
Robert Ellis Dunn
39. 1st Albrecht
Debussy
Arthur Mitchell
Marius Petipa
Lucien Petipa
40. Financed Balanchine to come to US - helped found New York City Ballet - served as general director
Debussy
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Lincoln Kirstein
Ivanov
41. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Anna Pavlova
Nijinsky
Theophile Gautier
Jean Baptiste Lande
42. First female ballet choreographer of the 20th century
Lincoln Kirstein
Nijinska
Theophile Gautier
Balanchine
43. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Alwin Nikolais
Ivanov
Anton Dolin
Merce Cunningham
44. Father of classical ballet
Charles Weidman
Ruby Keeler
Rudolph Nureyev
Marius Petipa
45. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Fokine
Alvin Ailey
Milhaud
Doris Humphrey
46. Choreographed Deeply There in 1988 in response to the AIDS epidemic
Nijinsky
Diaghilev
Nijinska
Joe Goode
47. African American modern Dance choreographer
Bill T. Jones
Merce Cunningham
Robert Ellis Dunn
Rudolph Nureyev
48. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Twyla Tharp
Alvin Ailey
Arthur Saint-Leon
Doris Humphrey
49. Choreographed Lion King
Garth Fagan
Fanny Elssler
Arthur Saint-Leon
Nijinska
50. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Balanchine
Jules Perrot
Arthur Mitchell
Ivanov