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Dance History
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1. A ballet company established in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev. It created a sensation in Western Europe because of the great vitality of Russian ballet compared to French dance. The Ballets Russes became one of the most influential b
Lindy Hop
Ballet Russes
Isadora Duncan
Swan Lake - 1895
2. (1819-1899) -Italian ballerina -Leading role in Giselle -Combined techniques of Taglioni & Elssler -Known for strength & lightness
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Carlotta Grisi
Deeply There - 1998
Giselle - 1841
3. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
Joffrey Ballet
Ronald Brown
Hanya Holm
Suzanne Linglor
4. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Loie Fuller
Tap Dance
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Mary Wigman
5. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Alwin Nikolais
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Stravinsky
Political Asylum
6. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
New York City Ballet
HIV+
Jockey Club
Martha Graham
7. Workers who earned enough money to be able to become consumer of art and material goods following the Industrial Revolution; escapism became a huge hit when the Depression hit to escape harsh reality
Middle Class
Scheherezade
Garth Fagan
Suzanne Linglor
8. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Gas-lighting and curtain
George Balanchine
Harlem
Lindy Hop
9. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Grand Pas de Deux
Milhaud
Shirley Temple
Tsar
10. Started in NYC by Robert Joffrey - small company - repertoire was eclectic and contemporary - reconstructed works from Diaghilev's Ballets Russes - Financially weak - often folded - moved to LA then chicago
Joffrey Ballet
Robert Joffrey
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Duet - 1957
11. Considered one of the greatest of African American choreographers - and also bears the titles dancer - educator - and dance company director. After studying under Katherine Dunham and Martha Graham - went on to do solo work and choreograph his own wo
Loie Fuller
Talley Beatty
Lincoln Kirstein
Joe Goode
12. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Industrial Revolution
Cleopatre -1909
Prince of Wales
Nijinsky
13. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Avant-Garde
Hip-hop
Lion King - 1998
Rose Adagio
14. 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
Giselle - 1841
Charles Weidman
Arthur Mitchell
Savoy Ballroom
15. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Arthur Mitchell
Ivanov
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
16. 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.
Charles Didelot
Philip Taglioni
Pelvic contraction and release
Ruby Keeler
17. Radically new or original
Rose Adagio
Jose Limon
Avant-Garde
Martha Graham
18. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Gas-lighting and curtain
Lindy Hop
Tchaikovsky
Franco-Prussian War
19. Teacher in Merce's studio Who is remembered for creating a competitive environment filled w/ experimentation for new dance styles
Jean Coralli
Robert Ellis Dunn
Alwin Nikolais
Petipa Styles of Movement
20. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
La Sylphide - 1832
Nijinska
Garth Fagan
21. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Les Noces - 1923
August Bournonville
Ballroom Dance
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
22. 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
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Ted Shawn
Louis Horst
23. Interrupted first flush of success of Coppelia and the included the siege of Paris - which also led to the early death of Giuseppina Bozzacchi - on her 17th birthday - but eventually it became the most-performed ballet at the Opera Garnier.
Franco-Prussian War
Fall and Recovery
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Philip Taglioni
24. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Cachucha
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Gas-lighting and curtain
New York City Ballet
25. Confirmed that Balanchine was an experimentalist - Africanist principles in his rhythmic scores - turns not resolved as in ballet - they just stop - take 'one' counts rather than 'and' counts
Denishawn
Apollo - 1928
Nijinsky
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
26. 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
Loie Fuller
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Judson Church
Schizophrenia
27. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Apollo - 1928
Rose Adagio
Jeux - 1913
Deeply There - 1998
28. 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
Divertissement
Isadora Duncan
Apollo - 1928
Anna Pavlova
29. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
Jockey Club
Ulysses Dove
Bill T. Jones
Hanya Holm
30. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
The Art of Making Dances
Deeply There - 1998
Scheherezade
31. 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
Still/Here - 1994
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Louis Horst
Le Train Bleu - 1924
32. 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
Debussy
Ruth St. Denis
Apollo - 1928
Still/Here - 1994
33. 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
Nijinsky
Jose Limon
Debussy
Tensile Involvement - 1953
34. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Judson Church
Hip-hop
Talley Beatty
Joffrey Ballet
35. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a woman who comes home from a ball and puts a rose on a table - falls asleep and dances with the spirit of the rose - the rose jumps out the window; most famous jump in dance history
Ulysses Dove
Nijinsky
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Alvin Ailey
36. 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
Ivanov
American Ballet Theater
Marie Taglioni
Giselle - 1841
37. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Agon - 1957
Ulysses Dove
Scheherezade
Cleopatre -1909
38. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Lincoln Kirstein
Hip-hop
Ronald Brown
Jean Baptiste Lande
39. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
La Sylphide - 1832
Twyla Tharp
Denishawn
Choreographers who died of AIDS
40. 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
Gus Solomons Jr
Acts of Light - 1981
Four Temperaments - 1946
Tap Dance
41. Was listed as the choreographer because He was widely respected - was known Perrot (more gifted) was collaborating with him; Choreographed the corps for Giselle
Jean Coralli
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Jean Baptiste Lande
Jitterbug
42. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Schizophrenia
Diaghilev
Twyla Tharp
Petrouchka - 1911
43. 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)
La Sylphide - 1832
Coca Chanel
Lion King - 1998
Doris Humphrey
44. 1957 TV show (similar to the Corny Collins show from Hairspray) - Lindy Hop dance; segregated; eventually shut down due to refusal to fully integrate; presented black music and dance on TV
Coca Chanel
Buddy Dean Show
Joffrey Ballet
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
45. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Charles Weidman
Still/Here - 1994
August Bournonville
Percussive Movement
46. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Rose Adagio
Leon Bakst
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Buddy Dean Show
47. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
Garth Fagan
Jean Coralli
Charles Weidman
AIDS
48. (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
American Ballet Theater
Duet - 1957
Joe Goode
Marius Petipa
49. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Jockey Club
Divertissement
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Doris Humphrey
50. 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
Nijinsky
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Pablo Picasso
Alwin Nikolais