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Dance History
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1. Predominately black - but whites attended - social dances were done - had to change the floor every three years because of the intense dancing - many whites went to go watch Black People Dance
Savoy Ballroom
Eleo Pomare
Fall and Recovery
Les Sylphides
2. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Lindy Hop
Fall and Recovery
Alwin Nikolais
Africanist Aesthetic
3. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Diaghilev
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
4. 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
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Merce Cunningham
Pablo Picasso
Lindy Hop
5. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Robert Joffrey
John Cage
Nijinsky
Petipa Styles of Movement
6. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Massine
Industrial Revolution
Bill T. Jones
Jean Baptiste Lande
7. 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
Marius Petipa
Jockey Club
Cachucha
8. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Paul Taylor
Pilobolus
Stravinsky
Romantic Era
9. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Talley Beatty
Deeply There - 1998
Scheherezade
Suzanne Linglor
10. 1896-1976 - American - Choreographer - Developed 1930's film fantasy with his daredevil and genius dance design - developed the stage style musical film into a more involved multi-shot fantasy film style with overhead shots - use of tiered set desig
Hip-hop
Busby Berkeley
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Anton Dolin
11. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Foyer de la Danse
Ballroom Dance
Dr. Louis Vernon
Marie Taglioni
12. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
August Bournonville
Cleopatre -1909
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Dance Theater of Harlem
13. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
Mary Wigman
Anton Dolin
Fokine
Schizophrenia
14. 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
La Sylphide - 1832
Tap Dance
Ruby Keeler
Africanist Aesthetic
15. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Arthur Mitchell
Paul Taylor
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Pablo Picasso
16. 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
Marius Petipa
Pilobolus
Dr. Louis Vernon
Nicholas Brothers
17. A signature piece of Taylor's in which he and his pianist remain motionless for the duration of the music-less score by John Cage.
Dance Theater of Harlem
Duet - 1957
Savoy Ballroom
Gus Solomons Jr
18. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Tsar
Hanya Holm
Cleopatre -1909
19. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Robert le Diable
Buddy Dean Show
Parade - 1917
Les Noces - 1923
20. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Ulysses Dove
Lion King - 1998
Rudolph Nureyev
Rudolph Laban
21. Star male dancer of Ballets Russes; became chief choreographer for one year - 1913 - Afternoon of a Faun - Rite of Spring - and Jeux. Rite caused a riot
Jeux - 1913
Nijinsky
Ted Shawn
La Sylphide - 1832
22. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Arthur Mitchell
Imperial Russian Ballet
Denishawn
Rudolph Nureyev
23. Choreography Deeply There
Aureole - 1962
Lincoln Kirstein
Joe Goode
Agon - 1957
24. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Divertissement
George Balanchine
Nicholas Brothers
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
25. Taglioni's rival -Her dancing was 'warm and passionate' -Dance was earthy - temperamental - fiery - vuluptuous -Labeled Pagan -Danced folk dances - most famous was Cachucha - Spanish using castanet - twists and turns; Known for her flair and theatric
Philip Taglioni
Jockey Club
Robert le Diable
Fanny Elssler
26. 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
Nijinsky
Donald McKayle
Ruth St. Denis
Fokine
27. By Martha Graham - focuses on technique - used technique as her own language - inspired by when she moved to Santa Barbara as a child - choneo - straight out of technique class - running on the cliffs of Santa Barbara and the development of her techn
Leon Bakst
Middle Class
Jockey Club
Acts of Light - 1981
28. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Garth Fagan
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Dance Theater of Harlem
29. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Milhaud
Isadora Duncan
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Cachucha
30. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact; Nijinsky had this illness
Schizophrenia
Margaret Sanger
Jockey Club
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
31. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Four Temperaments - 1946
Political Asylum
Postmodern Dance
Debussy
32. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Anton Dolin
Nicholas Brothers
Rudolph Nureyev
Rite of Spring - 1913
33. Waddling on their heels - legs straight - tap dance transition step - dances are about weight and being grounded - not defying gravity - jumps are about coming down - rather than going up - connection of Africanist dance & American modern dance
Arthur Saint Leon
Jeux - 1913
Aureole - 1962
Four Temperaments - 1946
34. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Gas-lighting and curtain
Jose Limon
Duet - 1957
Jockey Club
35. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Petipa Styles of Movement
Loie Fuller
Ruby Keeler
36. 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
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Nicholas Brothers
Denishawn
37. Wrote Discourse on the Origins of the Inequality of Mankind; wrote The Social Contract; wrote Confessions; believed that emotions as well as reason were important to human development but sent his own children to orphanages
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Tsar
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Scheherezade
38. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Giselle - 1841
Tchaikovsky
Fall and Recovery
Margaret Sanger
39. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Divertissement
Mary Wigman
Marius Petipa
Stravinsky
40. (1819-1899) -Italian ballerina -Leading role in Giselle -Combined techniques of Taglioni & Elssler -Known for strength & lightness
Rudolph Laban
Carlotta Grisi
John Cage
Louis Horst
41. Choreographed by Paul Taylor; Modern dance work in one act with choreography by Taylor - music by Handel - and lighting by T. Skelton. Premiered 4 Aug. 1962 at Connecticut College - New London - by the Paul Taylor Dance Company with Taylor - Elizabet
Russian Revolution
Aureole - 1962
Robert le Diable
Jose Limon
42. Born in NY - raised in Boston - first exposure to dance in 1920 - witness Diaghilev funeral - worked with Balanchine - established NYC ballet - passion for Japenese culture
Garth Fagan
Robert le Diable
Jockey Club
Lincoln Kirstein
43. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Jean Baptiste Lande
Cachucha
Cleopatre -1909
Petipa Styles of Movement
44. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Martha Graham
Scheherezade
Gas-lighting and curtain
Jean Baptiste Lande
45. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
Diaghilev
Twyla Tharp
Duet - 1957
John Cage
46. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
La Sylphide - 1832
Philip Taglioni
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Diaghilev
47. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Carlotta Grisi
Divertissement
Middle Class
Suzanne Linglor
48. Comedy - has sport movements - about a train taken to the beach where a plane flies over - spoof about Frenchman who wants to be very shallow American
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Schizophrenia
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Franco-Prussian War
49. 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
Tsar
Pelvic contraction and release
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Leon Bakst
50. First book of choreography; published posthumously in 1959
Joffrey Ballet
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
The Art of Making Dances
Pablo Picasso