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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
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Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Fall and Recovery
Savoy Ballroom
2. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Carlotta Grisi
Scheherezade
Divertissement
Jitterbug
3. 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
Four Temperaments - 1946
Divertissement
August Bournonville
Leon Bakst
4. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Philip Taglioni
Hip-hop
Petipa Styles of Movement
Isadora Duncan
5. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Parade - 1917
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Africanist Aesthetic
Nijinsky
6. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
Anton Dolin
Charles Weidman
Bill T. Jones
Coca Chanel
7. 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
Duet - 1957
Ronald Brown
Donald McKayle
Philip Taglioni
8. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Busby Berkeley
Pilobolus
The Art of Making Dances
Aureole - 1962
9. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
The Nutcracker - 1892
Robert Joffrey
Ivanov
Dance Theater of Harlem
10. 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
Doris Humphrey
Nicholas Brothers
George Balanchine
Ruth St. Denis
11. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Tap Dance
New York City Ballet
Massine
12. A Colombian-American modern dance choreographer known for his politically-charged productions depicting the black experience - notable productions include Missa Luba in 1965 - Blues for the Jungle in 1966 (portraying life in Harlem) - Las Desenamorad
Milhaud
Political Asylum
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Eleo Pomare
13. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Coppelia
Fokine
Nijinska
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14. Height of Romantic Ballet - Star: Carlotta Grisi - Choreographer: Jules Perrot (Carlotta's lover) & Jean Coralli - Written by: Gautier (Who was in love with Grisi) - Act I (sunlit) - Act II (moonlit)
Giselle - 1841
Duet - 1957
Savoy Ballroom
Jitterbug
15. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Philip Taglioni
The Dying Swan - 1905
Mary Wigman
Lincoln Kirstein
16. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
Judson Church
Doris Humphrey
Charles Weidman
August Bournonville
17. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Parade - 1917
August Bournonville
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Arthur Mitchell
18. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Garth Fagan
Jose Limon
Nijinsky
Giselle - 1841
19. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Tap Dance
Arthur Mitchell
Petrouchka - 1911
Theophile Gautier
20. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
Jitterbug
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Denishawn
Tensile Involvement - 1953
21. American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City - she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the
The Dying Swan - 1905
Giselle - 1841
Margaret Sanger
Suzanne Linglor
22. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Middle Class
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Harlem
Alvin Ailey
23. 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
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Merce Cunningham
Franco-Prussian War
Ivanov
24. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Romantic Era
The Nutcracker - 1892
Ruby Keeler
Jeux - 1913
25. 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
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
John Cage
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Aureole - 1962
26. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
The Nutcracker - 1892
Ruth St. Denis
Coppelia
Black Swan Pas de Deux
27. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Milhaud
Jules Perrot
Paul Taylor
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
28. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Carlotta Grisi
Paul Taylor
Nijinska
Mary Wigman
29. One of the artistic giants of the twentieth century. Helped found the Cubist and Abstract movements. During his life - 1881-1973 - he worked in various media and is noted for scores of important works. His painting Guernica is one of the most powerfu
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Joe Goode
Buddy Dean Show
Pablo Picasso
30. Sharp powerful movement; angle
Percussive Movement
Cleopatre -1909
Robert le Diable
Rite of Spring - 1913
31. Choreographed by Petipa & Ivanov - Odette (under a spell) & Odile look alike - Prince Siegfried (Odette saves other swans & tells him her tale) - his mother throws a ball for him to find a wife - Odile shows up as Odette & Prince commits his love to
Swan Lake - 1895
Ronald Brown
Alvin Ailey
Marie Taglioni
32. 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
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Dr. Louis Vernon
Eleo Pomare
33. Child actress could dance and sing very well - was able to keep up with Bill Robinson in tap dancing - was seen as the hope during the Great Depression.
George Balanchine
Ruby Keeler
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Shirley Temple
34. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Katherine Dunham
Fanny Elssler
Denishawn
Cachucha
35. Ballet with music by Erik Satie and a one-act scenario by Jean Cocteau. The ballet was composed 1916-1917 for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The ballet premiered on Friday - May 18th - 1917 at the Thaa
Lion King - 1998
Parade - 1917
Hanya Holm
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36. (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
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Ulysses Dove
Alwin Nikolais
37. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Diaghilev
Rite of Spring - 1913
Russian Revolution
August Bournonville
38. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
John Cage
Ronald Brown
Coppelia
Percussive Movement
39. Were top musical stars of the '30s; appeared in musicals that were considered old-fashioned when they were made; displaced their characters' sexual desire into fighting with each other
Alwin Nikolais
Jules Perrot
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Prince of Wales
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
American Ballet Theater
Industrial Revolution
Martha Graham
Fall and Recovery
41. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Ivanov
Joffrey Ballet
Cleopatre -1909
Divertissement
42. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Lion King - 1998
Louis Horst
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Les Sylphides
43. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Scheherezade
Jules Perrot
Diaghilev
Jean Baptiste Lande
44. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
Twyla Tharp
Debussy
Robert le Diable
Joffrey Ballet
45. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Giselle - 1841
Ruby Keeler
19th Amendment
Suzanne Linglor
46. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Stravinsky
Jean Baptiste Lande
Joe Goode
Prince of Wales
47. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Petrouchka - 1911
Alwin Nikolais
Ronald Brown
48. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Leon Bakst
Russian Revolution
Jules Perrot
19th Amendment
49. 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
Coppelia
Philip Taglioni
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Apollo - 1928
50. 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
Fokine
Tap Dance
Jean Baptiste Lande
Grand Pas de Deux