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Dance Famous People
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1. Visual artist who did much of the scenery for Ballet Russe
Leon Bakst
Balanchine
Jose Limon
Mikhail Baryshnikov
2. Choreographed Deeply There in 1988 in response to the AIDS epidemic
Twyla Tharp
Alwin Nikolais
Balanchine
Joe Goode
3. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German dance to U.S. but Americanized her technique.
Hanya Holm
Balanchine
Robert Ellis Dunn
Diaghilev
4. Brought ballet to Paris
Alvin Ailey
Diaghilev
Nijinska
Busby Berkeley
5. Writer of Giselle
Bill T. Jones
Arthur Saint-Leon
Theophile Gautier
Merce Cunningham
6. Father of Russian ballet
Rudolph Nureyev
Charles Didelot
Busby Berkeley
Marius Petipa
7. Designed costumes and set of Afternoon of a Faune
Mary Wigman
Paul Taylor
Milhaud
Leon Bakst
8. Named the mother of modern dance
Suzanne Linglor
Margaret Sanger
Mary Wigman
Fred Astaire
9. D Man in the Water
Bill T. Jones
Suzanne Linglor
Paul Taylor
Rudolph Nureyev
10. Still/Here
Alwin Nikolais
Bill T. Jones
Pilobolus
Nijinska
11. Horeography didn't necessarily go with music - simply occupied at the same place and time -
Merce Cunningham
Robert Joffrey
Margaret Sanger
Garth Fagan
12. Agon - 1957
Lucien Petipa
Balanchine
Bill T. Jones
Merce Cunningham
13. Known for her 'Pagan' style of dance
Balanchine
Debussy
Fanny Elssler
Theophile Gautier
14. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Hanya Holm
Louis Horst
Milhaud
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
15. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' - 'My Fair Lady' - and 'Camelot'
Hanya Holm
Jean Baptiste Lande
Nijinsky
Marius Petipa
16. Co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet
Paul Taylor
Jules Perrot
George Balanchine
Anna Pavlova
17. Choreographed Coppelia
Margaret Sanger
Arthur Saint-Leon
Charles Weidman
Merce Cunningham
18. Impressionist music
Joe Goode
Debussy
Nijinska
Ruby Keeler
19. Petrouchka
Fokine
Twyla Tharp
Balanchine
Ruth St. Denis
20. Choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutracker & Swan Lake
Ivanov
Nijinska
Jules Perrot
Mary Wigman
21. Director/founder of Ballet Russe
Balanchine
Diaghilev
Robert Ellis Dunn
Louis Horst
22. Director of St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1738
Charles Didelot
Twyla Tharp
Leon Bakst
Jean Baptiste Lande
23. Sleeping Beauty (1912)- very expensive and unsuccessful
Alvin Ailey
Jules Perrot
Nijinsky
Nijinska
24. Shortened skirt to show off pointe work - starred in La Sylphide
Massine
Marie Taglioni
Mary Wigman
George Balanchine
25. Choreographed Giselle but not given credit
Diaghilev
Ivanov
Arthur Saint-Leon
Jules Perrot
26. Teaches people can do whatever they want choreographically as long as you explain your proces
Nijinsky
Milhaud
Robert Ellis Dunn
Paul Taylor
27. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet
Nijinska
Martha Graham
Ruth St. Denis
Anton Dolin
28. Wrote autobiography Confessions
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Mary Wigman
Mary Wigman
Nijinsky
29. Composer for 'The Afternoon of a Faun'
Debussy
Alvin Ailey
Mary Wigman
Nijinska
30. Considered the greatest male dancer of the romantic era
Joe Goode
Jules Perrot
Nijinska
Robert Ellis Dunn
31. La Spectre de la Rose
Folkine - Nijinsky
Jules Perrot
Anna Pavlova
Nijinska
32. Professional tennis player Who was known for using ballet skills on the court
Jean Coralli
Marius Petipa
Fred Astaire
Suzanne Linglor
33. Developed new ways to use light and movement in her choreography
Arthur Mitchell
Loie Fuller
Nijinsky
Milhaud
34. Eccentric individualist/American choreographer -embraced experimental approaches such as silence
Twyla Tharp
Hanya Holm
Rudolph Nureyev
Folkine - Nijinsky
35. Financed Balanchine to come to US - helped found New York City Ballet - served as general director
Lincoln Kirstein
Theophile Gautier
Garth Fagan
Bill T. Jones
36. Known for two ballet styles of Symphonic ballet: comedic and satirical
Massine
Rudolph Nureyev
Fanny Elssler
Louis Horst
37. Credited for innovation of expressionist dance
Ruby Keeler
Mary Wigman
Doris Humphrey
Nijinska
38. Brought ballet to the common person
Anton Dolin
Robert Ellis Dunn
Louis Horst
Anna Pavlova
39. First black man (hired by Balanchine to perform at NYCB) to break race barrier
Arthur Mitchell
Pilobolus
Merce Cunningham
Leon Bakst
40. Fall and recovery' technique-dancers learned to be proficient in balancing and ceding to the pull of gravity.
Fokine
Doris Humphrey
Debussy
Ruby Keeler
41. Danced in Berkeley's movies - First movie dancing star of 1930's 42nd street led to her success
Suzanne Linglor
Nijinska
Merce Cunningham
Ruby Keeler
42. In love with Carlotta Grisi
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Theophile Gautier
Pilobolus
Balanchine
43. Invented the structure of the classic pas de deux
Joe Goode
Rudolph Nureyev
Milhaud
Marius Petipa
44. Pelvic contraction and release
Louis Horst
Alwin Nikolais
Nijinsky
Suzanne Linglor
45. African astheic choreography
Balanchine
Suzanne Linglor
Robert Ellis Dunn
Alvin Ailey
46. Known for brilliant divertissments
Mary Wigman
Arthur Saint-Leon
Nijinsky
Mikhail Baryshnikov
47. Experimental filmmaker/movie director
Ruby Keeler
Twyla Tharp
Busby Berkeley
Milhaud
48. Listed as choreographer of Giselle because He was widely respected
Lucien Petipa
Jean Coralli
Rudolph Laban
Busby Berkeley
49. Defected from Russia and asked for political asylum in Paris
Anton Dolin
Mary Wigman
Charles Didelot
Rudolph Nureyev
50. 1st Albrecht
Bill T. Jones
Lucien Petipa
Alwin Nikolais
Jean Coralli