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Dance Famous People
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1. Known for two ballet styles of Symphonic ballet: comedic and satirical
Jules Perrot
Nijinska
Fokine
Massine
2. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Nijinsky
Marius Petipa
Anton Dolin
Nijinsky
3. La Spectre de la Rose
Arthur Saint-Leon
Mary Wigman
Hanya Holm
Folkine - Nijinsky
4. His theory of 'decentrailization' involved inhibiting the dancer with abstract props and costumes so that the dancer could discover themselves.
Alwin Nikolais
Jean Coralli
Balanchine
Joe Goode
5. Acts of Light
Fokine
Louis Horst
Martha Graham
Merce Cunningham
6. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Leon Bakst
Diaghilev
Doris Humphrey
Merce Cunningham
7. Known for her 'Pagan' style of dance
Nijinsky
Jean Baptiste Lande
Fanny Elssler
Marius Petipa
8. Brought ballet to the common person
Bill T. Jones
Ruth St. Denis
Nijinsky
Anna Pavlova
9. African astheic choreography
Balanchine
Margaret Sanger
Marius Petipa
Anton Dolin
10. Composer for 'The Afternoon of a Faun'
Debussy
Ginger Rogers
Fanny Elssler
Balanchine
11. Directed the Paris Opera until he died from AIDS 1993
Ruby Keeler
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Pilobolus
Rudolph Nureyev
12. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Doris Humphrey
Diaghilev
Mary Wigman
Dr. Louis Vernon
13. Agon - 1957
Balanchine
Fanny Elssler
Fokine
Ruby Keeler
14. Defected from Russia to US -Greatest danseur of the 20th century.
Jean Coralli
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Charles Didelot
Mary Wigman
15. Played Swanilda in Coppelia
Balanchine
Merce Cunningham
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Marius Petipa
16. Launched careers of 5 great choreographers
Bill T. Jones
Diaghilev
Doris Humphrey
Nijinsky
17. Writer of Giselle
Twyla Tharp
Ivanov
Theophile Gautier
Mikhail Baryshnikov
18. Choreographed Parade & Three-Cornered Hat
Folkine - Nijinsky
Robert Joffrey
Massine
Ruth St. Denis
19. Points in Space -Composer: John Cage(partner) -Taught by Martha Graham
Busby Berkeley
Martha Graham
Merce Cunningham
Ruby Keeler
20. The art of making dances - 1959
Bill T. Jones
Doris Humphrey
Charles Didelot
Marie Taglioni
21. Liked to use special effects (mirrors) and many dancers for complex kaleidoscope figures - created the 'dancing camera' effect and monorail
Busby Berkeley
Hanya Holm
Rudolph Nureyev
Bill T. Jones
22. Brought ballet to Paris
Diaghilev
Louis Horst
Fanny Elssler
Garth Fagan
23. Performed Monkshood Farewell
Pilobolus
Fred Astaire
Balanchine
Martha Graham
24. Pioneer of modern dance in Germany
Mary Wigman
Jules Perrot
Ruth St. Denis
Alvin Ailey
25. Dancing couple that portrayed the American Depression Modern Style
Merce Cunningham
Ginger Rogers
Diaghilev
Alvin Ailey
26. Becomes chief ballet master after Petipa
Ivanov
Balanchine
Charles Didelot
Milhaud
27. Afternoon of a Faun
Nijinsky
Busby Berkeley
Balanchine
Lucien Petipa
28. EVERYDAY DANCE MOVES INSPIRED FROM REAL LIFE
Merce Cunningham
Paul Taylor
Ivanov
Garth Fagan
29. Considered the greatest male dancer of the romantic era
Arthur Saint-Leon
Mary Wigman
Jules Perrot
Marius Petipa
30. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Balanchine
Ginger Rogers
Balanchine
Nijinska
31. Choregraphed (the sleeping beauty and nutcracker - swan lake)
Diaghilev
Nijinsky
Dr. Louis Vernon
Marius Petipa
32. Rite of Spring
Nijinsky
Robert Ellis Dunn
Fokine
Diaghilev
33. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Jules Perrot
Mary Wigman
Twyla Tharp
Arthur Mitchell
34. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Anna Pavlova
Pilobolus
Anton Dolin
Diaghilev
35. PRINCIPLE OF FALL AND RECOVERY - KINETIC PANTOMIME
Milhaud
Mary Wigman
Charles Weidman
Ivanov
36. 1st Albrecht
Lucien Petipa
Merce Cunningham
Alwin Nikolais
Balanchine
37. Class grew into Judson's Church Group
Ruth St. Denis
Alwin Nikolais
Debussy
Robert Ellis Dunn
38. Chance dance' - focusing on the dance itself and was not interested in telling a story (fliped a coin)
Ivanov
Martha Graham
Merce Cunningham
Rudolph Laban
39. Father of Russian ballet
Jean Baptiste Lande
Ginger Rogers
Louis Horst
Charles Didelot
40. Financed Balanchine to come to US - helped found New York City Ballet - served as general director
Lincoln Kirstein
Charles Didelot
Ruby Keeler
Twyla Tharp
41. Died of AIDS -created his own company
Robert Joffrey
Fokine
Nijinska
Merce Cunningham
42. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Philip Taglioni
Anton Dolin
Arthur Mitchell
Fanny Elssler
43. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Paul Taylor
Pilobolus
Hanya Holm
Charles Didelot
44. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Robert Joffrey
Charles Didelot
Jean Coralli
Ivanov
45. Greatest contribution was his Kinetographic Laban (Labanotation) - a primary movement notation still used in dance today
Massine
Paul Taylor
Rudolph Laban
Robert Ellis Dunn
46. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Rudolph Laban
Merce Cunningham
Paul Taylor
Robert Ellis Dunn
47. Impressionist music
Debussy
Jules Perrot
Milhaud
Garth Fagan
48. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Robert Ellis Dunn
Alvin Ailey
George Balanchine
Busby Berkeley
49. Choreographed Jeux
Nijinsky
Ivanov
Mary Wigman
Louis Horst
50. Choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova
Massine
Ginger Rogers
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Fokine