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1. French composer; uses harmony to reinforce stasis; Prelude to Afternoon of a Fawn (half man - half goat - simulated masturbation); concert work that became a ballet
Acts of Light - 1981
Dance Theater of Harlem
Percussive Movement
Debussy
2. In charge of new Paris Opera; under his direction - Paris Opera made a profit for the only time in its existence; slashed salaries of ballerinas to force them into mistresshood for fellow Jockey's
Robert Joffrey
Dr. Louis Vernon
Leon Bakst
Middle Class
3. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Divertissement
Marius Petipa
Postmodern Dance
The Dying Swan - 1905
4. 1937 Founded by Ballet Russe's Mikhail Mordkin as Mordkin Ballet- Repertory company- features choreography of many artists such as Adolph Bolm - Michel Fokine - Leonide Massine - Bronislava Jijinska - Balanchine and Agnes de Mille
American Ballet Theater
Ronald Brown
Dr. Louis Vernon
Ulysses Dove
5. Beginning of modern dance - danced with bare feet - wore flowing Greek-style robe - died being strangled from a long-flowing scarf caught in a car wheel
Isadora Duncan
Twyla Tharp
Postmodern Dance
Ruth St. Denis
6. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Cachucha
Jules Perrot
Margaret Sanger
Judson Church
7. High energy act of two African american brothers - Fayard and Harold - had a 'flash act' consisting of an acrobatic tap style - were in movies - only African Americans encouraged to mingle with audience (by audeince demand)
Nicholas Brothers
Russian Revolution
Tap Dance
Loie Fuller
8. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Arthur Mitchell
Rudolph Nureyev
Jean Coralli
Tap Dance
9. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
Foyer de la Danse
Coca Chanel
Coppelia
Anton Dolin
10. Dances have no linear development; no central focus on stage; a field of dancers where you can watch any dancer from any direction and decide for yourself where the focus of the dance is
Postmodern Dance
Pablo Picasso
Merce Cunningham
Nicholas Brothers
11. Contemporary of Duncan's. Design orientation. Known for manipulation of costumes that would make flowing patterns and dance was non-emotional. Also did light design.
Jeux - 1913
Loie Fuller
Robert le Diable
Margaret Sanger
12. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Hanya Holm
Jean Baptiste Lande
Philip Taglioni
Talley Beatty
13. Works to question the complexities of real life
Agon - 1957
The Dying Swan - 1905
Postmodern Dance
Massine
14. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Savoy Ballroom
Cleopatre -1909
Garth Fagan
15. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Imperial Russian Ballet
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Agon - 1957
16. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Coca Chanel
New York City Ballet
Russian Revolution
Philip Taglioni
17. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Buddy Dean Show
Prince of Wales
Ruby Keeler
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
18. Petipa's assistant that takes over - choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutcracker - dies in 1901 - didn't produce anything more of importance except Swan Lake
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Ivanov
Debussy
Daughter of the Pharaoh
19. Alwin Nikolais - had a lot of ribbons - very involved in the sounds - wearing skin colored clothes - drum music - elastic ropes and strings - all across stage
Tensile Involvement - 1953
The Art of Making Dances
Duet - 1957
Rudolph Laban
20. Was inspired by a cigarette poster featuring the Egyptian goddess Isis to begin investigation Asian art and dance - Founded the Denishawn School of dancing and Related Arts with her husband Ted Shawn in 1915 in Los Angeles - California - Believed tha
Massine
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Ruth St. Denis
The Nutcracker - 1892
21. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Fanny Elssler
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Gas-lighting and curtain
Imperial Russian Ballet
22. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Coppelia
Anton Dolin
Avant-Garde
Diaghilev
23. Different styles: 1. hoofers: Gregory Hines - Savion Glover - intricate footwork 2. class acts: Fred Astaire - Ginger Rodgers - refined and elegant 3. flash acts: tap with acrobatics 4. soft shoe: skimming floor - producing soft & muted steps
Industrial Revolution
Milhaud
Deeply There - 1998
Tap Dance
24. From its very beginning the ballet was entirely dependent upon this individual; it was his ballet - under the direct supervision and guidance of a court minister appointed by this individual and answerable to him
Lindy Hop
Tsar
Industrial Revolution
Avant-Garde
25. Nijinsky choreographed - in the forest - nymphs shows up to flirt with the Faun - one of them drops her scarf - they all leave - and he masturbates into the scarf
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Eleo Pomare
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Fokine
26. Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation (1879-1958); Established the Choreographic Institute in Zurich - Founded branches across Europe - Kinetographie Laban=labanotation - primary movement - notation stilled used today in dance - Conte
Nicholas Brothers
Denishawn
Swan Lake - 1895
Rudolph Laban
27. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Political Asylum
Prince of Wales
Jules Perrot
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
28. (1822-1910) created the first ballet that would later be classified as classical ballet. He also held the position of Ballet Master in Chief to the Imperial Tsar in 1869. created Don Quixote and La Bayadere and many other works. Though he did not cho
Marius Petipa
Coca Chanel
Jeux - 1913
Harlem
29. St. Denis and Ted Shawn's company that helps spread the gospel of dance from the constraints of ballet - opened a school in Los Angeles - brought dance to the middle class by supporting good health and virginal spirituality
Percussive Movement
Charles Weidman
Loie Fuller
Denishawn
30. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Tchaikovsky
Anton Dolin
Shirley Temple
31. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Still/Here - 1994
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Romantic Era
Tap Dance
32. A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
Marius Petipa
Garth Fagan
AIDS
Martha Graham
33. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Choreographers who died of AIDS
AIDS
The Dying Swan - 1905
Daughter of the Pharaoh
34. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Petipa Styles of Movement
Duet - 1957
Talley Beatty
Anna Pavlova
35. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Alvin Ailey
Lion King - 1998
Anna Pavlova
Carlotta Grisi
36. Music that combines spoken street dialect with cuts (samples) from older records and bears the influences of social politics - male boasting - and comic lyrics carried forward from blues - R&b - soul and rock and roll
American Ballet Theater
Hip-hop
Cachucha
Imperial Russian Ballet
37. Marius Petipa - 4 fairies for Aurora - did not invite the evil fairy - put a spell on Aurora @ 16 she would prick her finger on a spindle & fall asleep for 100 years - End of Act I pricks her finger - Act III is the wedding (divertissement - Grand Pa
Bill T. Jones
Robert Ellis Dunn
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Charles Didelot
38. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
La Sylphide - 1832
Robert le Diable
Mary Wigman
Pablo Picasso
39. Radically new or original
Avant-Garde
La Sylphide - 1832
Tchaikovsky
Busby Berkeley
40. One of the major figures in the development of modern dance - an American dancer - choreographer and teacher who created more than 150 works on a wide range of subjects from ancient Greek to modern American; contraction and release
Ronald Brown
Rite of Spring - 1913
Rudolph Laban
Martha Graham
41. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Charles Didelot
Alwin Nikolais
Rose Adagio
George Balanchine
42. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
Franco-Prussian War
HIV+
Jitterbug
Cachucha
43. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
La Sylphide - 1832
Jose Limon
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
44. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Charles Didelot
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Loie Fuller
Africanist Aesthetic
45. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Loie Fuller
Nijinsky
Cachucha
Divertissement
46. Most important figure in Russia in immediately pre-Romantic days. Did much to improve the repertory and teaching. 20 ballets - raised standards. Flying wires - pointe works.
Margaret Sanger
Jockey Club
Anton Dolin
Charles Didelot
47. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Russian Revolution
Tchaikovsky
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Jules Perrot
48. Wrote 'The Art of Making Dances' in 1931 - Fall and Recovery - inspired by Bach and used his work in many piece - choreographed pieces without music - Passacaglia and fugue in C minor (showed fall and recovery)
Gas-lighting and curtain
The Art of Making Dances
Doris Humphrey
Still/Here - 1994
49. Dancer - choreographer - teacher - born 1930 in NY - began dancing senior year of HS - scholarship to New Dance group. studied with Primus. Professional debut in 1948 - choreographed 1st pieces with group when 18 - 1951 founded contemporary dance gro
Nijinska
Hanya Holm
Isadora Duncan
Donald McKayle
50. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Milhaud
Agon - 1957
Fall and Recovery
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