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1. Radically new or original
Avant-Garde
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
The Nutcracker - 1892
Buddy Dean Show
2. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
19th Amendment
Fall and Recovery
Lion King - 1998
Massine
3. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Lion King - 1998
Arthur Saint Leon
Aureole - 1962
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
4. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
Rudolph Laban
Joffrey Ballet
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Denishawn
5. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Rudolph Nureyev
Jean Baptiste Lande
Paul Taylor
August Bournonville
6. 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
Franco-Prussian War
Jose Limon
Lincoln Kirstein
Africanist Aesthetic
7. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Rudolph Laban
George Balanchine
Ruby Keeler
Carlotta Grisi
8. Sharp powerful movement; angle
Rose Adagio
Percussive Movement
Twyla Tharp
D-Man in the Water - 1989
9. 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
Apollo - 1928
Schizophrenia
Fokine
Isadora Duncan
10. 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
Fokine
Acts of Light - 1981
Ballet Russes
Busby Berkeley
11. Reform Russian Ballet - choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova (2 minutes long) - accused of being influenced by Isadora Duncan - teacher & choreographer rather than a refined dancer
Coppelia
Paul Taylor
Fokine
Middle Class
12. Founded the Gus Solomons Company/Dance - whose repertoire consisted of detailed and analytical compositions that were conceived as 'melted architecture' - drawing from experience as an architecture student at MIT
Gus Solomons Jr
Foyer de la Danse
Schizophrenia
Ruby Keeler
13. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Tsar
Gas-lighting and curtain
Louis Horst
Romantic Era
14. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Nijinska
Africanist Aesthetic
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Merce Cunningham
15. 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
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Rudolph Laban
Isadora Duncan
HIV+
16. 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
Merce Cunningham
John Cage
La Sylphide - 1832
Nijinska
17. 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
Les Noces - 1923
Donald McKayle
Fanny Elssler
Dance Theater of Harlem
18. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
La Sylphide - 1832
Robert Joffrey
Anton Dolin
Jean Baptiste Lande
19. 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.
Massine
Foyer de la Danse
Divertissement
Buddy Dean Show
20. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Garth Fagan
John Cage
Alwin Nikolais
Nijinska
21. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Black Swan Pas de Deux
The Dying Swan - 1905
Deeply There - 1998
Fall and Recovery
22. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Nijinska
Imperial Russian Ballet
Romantic Era
The Dying Swan - 1905
23. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
Fokine
Anton Dolin
John Cage
HIV+
24. Last member of the group that helped found the modern dance movement - Amassed a growing collection of 133 dances - His work created the Paul Taylor Dance Company - Known for his innovative and sometimes controversial choreography - Still considered
Avant-Garde
Paul Taylor
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Rite of Spring - 1913
25. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Judson Church
Arthur Saint Leon
Nicholas Brothers
26. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
The Art of Making Dances
Lion King - 1998
Russian Revolution
Parade - 1917
27. 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
La Sylphide - 1832
Tchaikovsky
Savoy Ballroom
Jeux - 1913
28. 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
Rudolph Laban
Garth Fagan
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Merce Cunningham
29. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Merce Cunningham
HIV+
New York City Ballet
Philip Taglioni
30. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
Jitterbug
Leon Bakst
Donald McKayle
Deeply There - 1998
31. Work written at a time when one of Jones' company dancers - Demian Acquavella - nicknamed D-Man - was suffering from AIDS; a celebratory - affectionate work about the company defiantly remaining joyful - loving - productive - and cohesive in the face
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Pilobolus
Daughter of the Pharaoh
32. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Harlem
Merce Cunningham
Debussy
Tsar
33. 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
Lincoln Kirstein
Acts of Light - 1981
Joffrey Ballet
Ronald Brown
34. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Imperial Russian Ballet
Coca Chanel
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
35. 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
George Balanchine
Savoy Ballroom
Cleopatre -1909
Martha Graham
36. 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
Ballroom Dance
Ruby Keeler
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Debussy
37. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
Leon Bakst
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Bill T. Jones
George Balanchine
38. Student of Mary Wigman. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German modern to U.S. but Americanized her technique. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew
Hanya Holm
Pelvic contraction and release
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Jockey Club
39. 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
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Leon Bakst
Nijinska
40. 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
Theophile Gautier
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Louis Horst
Political Asylum
41. 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
Les Noces - 1923
Africanist Aesthetic
Denishawn
42. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Dance Theater of Harlem
Ronald Brown
Judson Church
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
43. 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
La Sylphide - 1832
Ballet Russes
Twyla Tharp
Margaret Sanger
44. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Pilobolus
Grand Pas de Deux
Jean Baptiste Lande
Jitterbug
45. 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
Ballet Russes
August Bournonville
Lincoln Kirstein
Ted Shawn
46. 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
Tap Dance
Philip Taglioni
Agon - 1957
Diaghilev
47. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Fanny Elssler
Debussy
AIDS
Deeply There - 1998
48. Arthur Mitchell founder and artistic director -1st black dancer to break color barrier for classical ballet -America's 1st outstanding ballet company of black dancers -started school with Karel Shook -shaped by Balanchine -Dancers known for warmth an
Dance Theater of Harlem
Ruby Keeler
Foyer de la Danse
Alwin Nikolais
49. 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.
Ronald Brown
Charles Didelot
Marius Petipa
Carlotta Grisi
50. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Isadora Duncan
Harlem
Postmodern Dance
Divertissement