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Dance Famous People
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Brought ballet to the common person
Mary Wigman
Anna Pavlova
Martha Graham
Lincoln Kirstein
2. Father of classical ballet
Diaghilev
Marius Petipa
Margaret Sanger
Paul Taylor
3. United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood
Fanny Elssler
Margaret Sanger
Marius Petipa
Nijinsky
4. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Marius Petipa
Robert Ellis Dunn
Diaghilev
Lucien Petipa
5. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Mary Wigman
Philip Taglioni
Pilobolus
Rudolph Laban
6. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Rudolph Laban
Anton Dolin
Doris Humphrey
Mary Wigman
7. French - Composed music for Le Train Bleu
Loie Fuller
Hanya Holm
Milhaud
Folkine - Nijinsky
8. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Fokine
Louis Horst
Balanchine
9. African astheic choreography
Lincoln Kirstein
Balanchine
Martha Graham
Bill T. Jones
10. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Hanya Holm
Hanya Holm
Doris Humphrey
11. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Massine
Fred Astaire
Leon Bakst
Bill T. Jones
12. Writer of Giselle
Marie Taglioni
Merce Cunningham
Marius Petipa
Theophile Gautier
13. Launched careers of 5 great choreographers
Arthur Saint-Leon
Lincoln Kirstein
Diaghilev
Charles Weidman
14. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Jose Limon
George Balanchine
Doris Humphrey
Busby Berkeley
15. First male dancer to make an impression in U.S.
Ginger Rogers
Jules Perrot
Loie Fuller
Rudolph Nureyev
16. Petrouchka
Fokine
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Fred Astaire
Arthur Mitchell
17. Choreographed Lion King
Jules Perrot
Robert Ellis Dunn
Garth Fagan
Fokine
18. Defected from Russia to US -Greatest danseur of the 20th century.
Ruby Keeler
Balanchine
Nijinska
Mikhail Baryshnikov
19. Choregraphed (the sleeping beauty and nutcracker - swan lake)
Massine
Marius Petipa
Charles Weidman
Paul Taylor
20. Played Swanilda in Coppelia
Fred Astaire
Anton Dolin
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Martha Graham
21. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
August Bournonville
Mary Wigman
Diaghilev
Theophile Gautier
22. Choreographed La Sylphide
Ginger Rogers
Philip Taglioni
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Jean Coralli
23. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Debussy
Ivanov
Merce Cunningham
Ruth St. Denis
24. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Charles Didelot
Rudolph Laban
Joe Goode
Ivanov
25. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Dr. Louis Vernon
Alvin Ailey
George Balanchine
Alwin Nikolais
26. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Nijinska
Merce Cunningham
Charles Didelot
Ruth St. Denis
27. Four Temperaments
Balanchine
Massine
Milhaud
Nijinska
28. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Nijinsky
Theophile Gautier
Anton Dolin
Robert Ellis Dunn
29. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Anna Pavlova
Martha Graham
Milhaud
Paul Taylor
30. Founded American Dance Theater in New York City
Merce Cunningham
Alvin Ailey
Hanya Holm
Nijinsky
31. 1st Albrecht
Marie Taglioni
Fokine
Ruth St. Denis
Lucien Petipa
32. Designed costumes and set of Afternoon of a Faune
Rudolph Nureyev
Milhaud
Leon Bakst
Jean Jacques Rousseau
33. Pioneer of modern dance in Germany
Lincoln Kirstein
Merce Cunningham
Busby Berkeley
Mary Wigman
34. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Busby Berkeley
Fanny Elssler
Balanchine
Anna Pavlova
35. Rite of Spring
Robert Ellis Dunn
Nijinsky
Paul Taylor
Mary Wigman
36. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Diaghilev
Anton Dolin
Merce Cunningham
Merce Cunningham
37. Known for her 'Pagan' style of dance
Ivanov
Fanny Elssler
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Rudolph Nureyev
38. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German dance to U.S. but Americanized her technique.
Doris Humphrey
Hanya Holm
Balanchine
Anna Pavlova
39. Leading dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe
Margaret Sanger
Fokine
Debussy
Nijinska
40. One act ballets - Narrative had adult emotions
Fred Astaire
Joe Goode
Robert Joffrey
Fokine
41. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Charles Didelot
Fokine
George Balanchine
Ginger Rogers
42. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet
Leon Bakst
Doris Humphrey
Anton Dolin
Fokine
43. REBELLED AGAINST IDEA THAT DANCE HAD TO HAVE MEANING
Twyla Tharp
Arthur Mitchell
Fokine
Merce Cunningham
44. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Lincoln Kirstein
Hanya Holm
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Louis Horst
45. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Marius Petipa
Anna Pavlova
Rudolph Laban
Paul Taylor
46. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Rudolph Nureyev
Marie Taglioni
Doris Humphrey
Jose Limon
47. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Alvin Ailey
Jose Limon
Alwin Nikolais
Nijinsky
48. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Massine
Pilobolus
Nijinska
Paul Taylor
49. D Man in the Water
Merce Cunningham
Louis Horst
Fred Astaire
Bill T. Jones
50. Known for brilliant divertissments
Leon Bakst
Arthur Saint-Leon
Philip Taglioni
Massine