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Dance Famous People
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1. Writer of Giselle
Martha Graham
Debussy
Arthur Saint-Leon
Theophile Gautier
2. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Fokine
Suzanne Linglor
Marie Taglioni
Ivanov
3. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Ruth St. Denis
Robert Ellis Dunn
Robert Joffrey
Merce Cunningham
4. Choreographed Lion King
Arthur Mitchell
Lucien Petipa
Garth Fagan
Arthur Saint-Leon
5. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Louis Horst
Merce Cunningham
Charles Weidman
Lucien Petipa
6. Known for brilliant divertissments
Milhaud
August Bournonville
Louis Horst
Arthur Saint-Leon
7. Wrote against male dancers
Arthur Mitchell
Theophile Gautier
Balanchine
Paul Taylor
8. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Jean Baptiste Lande
Debussy
Alwin Nikolais
Fokine
9. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Diaghilev
Rudolph Laban
Philip Taglioni
Ivanov
10. Acts of Light
Martha Graham
Alvin Ailey
Jean Baptiste Lande
Folkine - Nijinsky
11. REBELLED AGAINST IDEA THAT DANCE HAD TO HAVE MEANING
Massine
Robert Ellis Dunn
Busby Berkeley
Merce Cunningham
12. Designed costumes and set of Afternoon of a Faune
Leon Bakst
Merce Cunningham
Ruby Keeler
Milhaud
13. Danced in Berkeley's movies - First movie dancing star of 1930's 42nd street led to her success
Marius Petipa
Joe Goode
Ruby Keeler
Lucien Petipa
14. Defected from Russia to US -Greatest danseur of the 20th century.
Doris Humphrey
Nijinska
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Bill T. Jones
15. Starred in Prince of Whales
Robert Ellis Dunn
Nijinsky
Anton Dolin
Jean Baptiste Lande
16. Choregraphed (the sleeping beauty and nutcracker - swan lake)
Marius Petipa
Doris Humphrey
Charles Weidman
Louis Horst
17. Named the mother of modern dance
Mary Wigman
Diaghilev
Folkine - Nijinsky
Suzanne Linglor
18. Shortened skirt to show off pointe work - starred in La Sylphide
Marie Taglioni
Alvin Ailey
Balanchine
Nijinska
19. African American modern Dance choreographer
Bill T. Jones
Jean Baptiste Lande
Folkine - Nijinsky
Paul Taylor
20. Listed as choreographer of Giselle because He was widely respected
Suzanne Linglor
Jean Coralli
Philip Taglioni
Hanya Holm
21. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Joe Goode
Nijinska
Doris Humphrey
George Balanchine
22. Considered the greatest male dancer of the romantic era
Pilobolus
Fokine
Louis Horst
Jules Perrot
23. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Massine
Robert Ellis Dunn
Hanya Holm
Merce Cunningham
24. First lady of modern dance
Ruth St. Denis
Arthur Saint-Leon
Mary Wigman
Balanchine
25. Co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet
Nijinska
George Balanchine
Theophile Gautier
Jean Jacques Rousseau
26. Developed new ways to use light and movement in her choreography
Joe Goode
Bill T. Jones
Jean Coralli
Loie Fuller
27. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer
Jose Limon
Charles Didelot
Massine
Nijinska
28. Pioneer of modern dance in Germany
Fokine
Mary Wigman
Anton Dolin
Milhaud
29. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Doris Humphrey
Charles Weidman
Bill T. Jones
Martha Graham
30. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Hanya Holm
Anna Pavlova
Diaghilev
Milhaud
31. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Diaghilev
Marius Petipa
Jean Coralli
Theophile Gautier
32. Movement in hips
Nijinsky
Bill T. Jones
Jean Coralli
Arthur Mitchell
33. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Charles Didelot
August Bournonville
Alvin Ailey
Jean Baptiste Lande
34. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Louis Horst
Fred Astaire
Doris Humphrey
Rudolph Nureyev
35. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Pilobolus
Fanny Elssler
Milhaud
Rudolph Nureyev
36. AVANT GARDE -CHOREOGRAPHED AUREOLE
Marius Petipa
Theophile Gautier
Nijinsky
Paul Taylor
37. He was a 'quadruple threat' he created the choreography - the lighting - the costumes and the music all himself -Tensile Involvement
Alwin Nikolais
Diaghilev
Leon Bakst
Jean Baptiste Lande
38. Petrouchka
Hanya Holm
Fokine
Marius Petipa
Theophile Gautier
39. Father of classical ballet
Diaghilev
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Marius Petipa
Ivanov
40. Known for her 'Pagan' style of dance
Balanchine
Marius Petipa
Busby Berkeley
Fanny Elssler
41. Choreographed La Sylphide
Balanchine
Theophile Gautier
Philip Taglioni
Robert Ellis Dunn
42. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Ruth St. Denis
George Balanchine
Robert Ellis Dunn
Busby Berkeley
43. Noted for his use of African elements
Alvin Ailey
Leon Bakst
Balanchine
August Bournonville
44. Pelvic contraction and release
Jules Perrot
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Louis Horst
Ivanov
45. Professional tennis player Who was known for using ballet skills on the court
Balanchine
Suzanne Linglor
Bill T. Jones
Rudolph Nureyev
46. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Balanchine
Fokine
Fred Astaire
Mikhail Baryshnikov
47. La Spectre de la Rose
Martha Graham
Bill T. Jones
Folkine - Nijinsky
Fred Astaire
48. Combined spiritual with the theatrical
Robert Ellis Dunn
Ruth St. Denis
Alwin Nikolais
Marie Taglioni
49. Four Temperaments
Ruth St. Denis
Mary Wigman
Balanchine
Robert Ellis Dunn
50. Choreographed 'Revelations'
Merce Cunningham
Alvin Ailey
Charles Weidman
Mary Wigman
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