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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
Ballet Russes
Nijinska
Robert Joffrey
Avant-Garde
2. 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
Carlotta Grisi
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Hip-hop
Swan Lake - 1895
3. Choreographer of Parade & Three-Cornered hat - known for symphonic ballet - comedy satire - character dancing - and color
Theophile Gautier
Rite of Spring - 1913
Massine
Daughter of the Pharaoh
4. First book of choreography; published posthumously in 1959
Busby Berkeley
The Art of Making Dances
Ulysses Dove
Joe Goode
5. 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
Leon Bakst
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Aureole - 1962
Coppelia
6. 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)
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Nicholas Brothers
Ruby Keeler
7. Was listed as the choreographer because He was widely respected - was known Perrot (more gifted) was collaborating with him; Choreographed the corps for Giselle
Africanist Aesthetic
Acts of Light - 1981
Jean Coralli
Duet - 1957
8. Choreographed by Filippino Taglioni and performed by one of the greatest ballerinas of the 19th century Marie Taglioni. One of the most famous Romantic Ballets. - First true romantic ballet
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Apollo - 1928
Cachucha
La Sylphide - 1832
9. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Industrial Revolution
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Parade - 1917
10. 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
Isadora Duncan
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Dr. Louis Vernon
The Art of Making Dances
11. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Foyer de la Danse
Philip Taglioni
Middle Class
Alvin Ailey
12. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Louis Horst
American Ballet Theater
Gas-lighting and curtain
13. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Charles Didelot
Louis Horst
Gas-lighting and curtain
Le Train Bleu - 1924
14. 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
Marius Petipa
19th Amendment
Joe Goode
Jean Jacques Rousseau
15. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Apollo - 1928
Les Sylphides
Jockey Club
Industrial Revolution
16. (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
Still/Here - 1994
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Franco-Prussian War
17. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Eleo Pomare
Massine
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Ruby Keeler
18. 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
Scheherezade
Busby Berkeley
Franco-Prussian War
Pablo Picasso
19. Radically new or original
Avant-Garde
HIV+
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Prince of Wales
20. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Gus Solomons Jr
Dance Theater of Harlem
Milhaud
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
21. Famous for her incredible technique - lightness - and ethereal presence -(1804-1884) -Introduced new costume design (bare neck/shoulders - tutu) -Perfected dancing en pointe -La Sylphide`
Merce Cunningham
Nicholas Brothers
Marie Taglioni
Arthur Saint Leon
22. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Charles Weidman
Africanist Aesthetic
Tsar
New York City Ballet
23. 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
Doris Humphrey
Ronald Brown
Isadora Duncan
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
24. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Mary Wigman
Diaghilev
Ballroom Dance
Charles Weidman
25. 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
Philip Taglioni
Mary Wigman
Debussy
Loie Fuller
26. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Fanny Elssler
American Ballet Theater
Industrial Revolution
Choreographers who died of AIDS
27. Studio behind the stage at the Paris Opera which is now used as a rehearsal stage and a reception venue but which was notorious in the 19th century (during the reign of Dr Varon) as the salon where members of the Jockey Club could meet dancers.
Alvin Ailey
Joffrey Ballet
Giselle - 1841
Foyer de la Danse
28. 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
Prince of Wales
Pablo Picasso
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Petipa Styles of Movement
29. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
Doris Humphrey
Denishawn
Schizophrenia
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
30. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
The Nutcracker - 1892
Anna Pavlova
August Bournonville
HIV+
31. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Jean Coralli
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Gas-lighting and curtain
32. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
Deeply There - 1998
Les Noces - 1923
Duet - 1957
Katherine Dunham
33. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Mary Wigman
Petipa Styles of Movement
Rite of Spring - 1913
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
34. Created the well-known Denishawn school with his wife Ruth St. Denis. They taught dancers diverse styles - With his wife they set up the foundations for the principal of Musical Visualization 'a concept that called for movement equivalents to the tim
Garth Fagan
Ted Shawn
Isadora Duncan
Choreographers who died of AIDS
35. (1931-1989) A New York City dancer who created an American Dance Theater which trains dancers and performs worldwide; most famous work was Revelations and piece named Cry - in honor of his mother; lost battle to AIDS in 1989
Cachucha
Rose Adagio
Alvin Ailey
Shirley Temple
36. Inspired by Gautier's novel The Story of the Mummy - very complicated - spectacular - successful ballet - Aspica is the daughter - English Lord in sand storm goes into tomb & gets put into an opium dream where he becomes Tahor and saves Aspico from a
Ruth St. Denis
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Tap Dance
37. 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
Hanya Holm
Philip Taglioni
Talley Beatty
Arthur Mitchell
38. 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
Parade - 1917
Ballet Russes
The Nutcracker - 1892
Shirley Temple
39. 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
Denishawn
Deeply There - 1998
Tchaikovsky
Massine
40. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Cleopatre -1909
Jean Coralli
Lion King - 1998
41. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Jean Coralli
Acts of Light - 1981
Joe Goode
Scheherezade
42. 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
Africanist Aesthetic
Anna Pavlova
Ruth St. Denis
Le Train Bleu - 1924
43. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Dr. Louis Vernon
Pelvic contraction and release
Agon - 1957
44. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Harlem
Prince of Wales
Anton Dolin
Political Asylum
45. 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.
Duet - 1957
Philip Taglioni
Ivanov
Alvin Ailey
46. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Russian Revolution
Petipa Styles of Movement
Rudolph Nureyev
47. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Franco-Prussian War
Arthur Saint Leon
Les Sylphides
Eleo Pomare
48. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
Tchaikovsky
Political Asylum
Apollo - 1928
Pelvic contraction and release
49. 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
Judson Church
Rose Adagio
Percussive Movement
Eleo Pomare
50. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
Ulysses Dove
The Nutcracker - 1892
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Rite of Spring - 1913
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