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Dance History
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1. 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)
Margaret Sanger
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Anton Dolin
Doris Humphrey
2. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Arthur Mitchell
Louis Horst
Hanya Holm
Parade - 1917
3. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
Anton Dolin
Tsar
Still/Here - 1994
HIV+
4. 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
Robert Ellis Dunn
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Stravinsky
Daughter of the Pharaoh
5. 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
Dr. Louis Vernon
Industrial Revolution
Buddy Dean Show
Garth Fagan
6. 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
Judson Church
19th Amendment
Tchaikovsky
7. 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
Avant-Garde
Busby Berkeley
Rudolph Nureyev
Rudolph Laban
8. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Gus Solomons Jr
Les Noces - 1923
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Jockey Club
9. Teacher in Merce's studio Who is remembered for creating a competitive environment filled w/ experimentation for new dance styles
Hanya Holm
Paul Taylor
Robert Ellis Dunn
Marius Petipa
10. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
New York City Ballet
Arthur Saint Leon
Suzanne Linglor
11. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Postmodern Dance
Middle Class
Fall and Recovery
Petrouchka - 1911
12. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Imperial Russian Ballet
Franco-Prussian War
Ruth St. Denis
American Ballet Theater
13. 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
Jean Coralli
Robert le Diable
Buddy Dean Show
14. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Grand Pas de Deux
Loie Fuller
Divertissement
Ballet Russes
15. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Ruby Keeler
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Avant-Garde
Isadora Duncan
16. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Leon Bakst
Alwin Nikolais
Stravinsky
17. Published in London Times 1914 - want to make 'ballet a fully expressive art that mirrored life' - new movement for each dance - no mime (Petipa used so that the audience always understood) - use entire body (to be expressive) - no divertissement (no
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18. 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
Nijinsky
Marius Petipa
Theophile Gautier
19. 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
Lincoln Kirstein
Alwin Nikolais
Petrouchka - 1911
Theophile Gautier
20. Music that combines spoken street dialect with cuts (samples) from older records and bears the influences of social politics - male boasting - and comic lyrics carried forward from blues - R&b - soul and rock and roll
Jose Limon
Bill T. Jones
Grand Pas de Deux
Hip-hop
21. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
Alwin Nikolais
Romantic Era
Daughter of the Pharaoh
The Nutcracker - 1892
22. 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
Parade - 1917
Pilobolus
Hanya Holm
23. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Garth Fagan
Lindy Hop
Pablo Picasso
Harlem
24. 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
Duet - 1957
La Sylphide - 1832
Isadora Duncan
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
25. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Africanist Aesthetic
Imperial Russian Ballet
Parade - 1917
Ronald Brown
26. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Dr. Louis Vernon
Duet - 1957
Petipa Styles of Movement
Mikhail Baryshnikov
27. 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
Cachucha
Marie Taglioni
Franco-Prussian War
Aureole - 1962
28. 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
Fokine
Pablo Picasso
Prince of Wales
Tsar
29. HIV - choreographed Still Here - organized survivor workshops
Buddy Dean Show
Bill T. Jones
Charles Didelot
Percussive Movement
30. 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
Africanist Aesthetic
Isadora Duncan
Four Temperaments - 1946
D-Man in the Water - 1989
31. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Aureole - 1962
Jitterbug
Scheherezade
Ronald Brown
32. 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
Suzanne Linglor
Tchaikovsky
Imperial Russian Ballet
33. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
Foyer de la Danse
Alwin Nikolais
Coca Chanel
Lincoln Kirstein
34. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
Ronald Brown
Grand Pas de Deux
Merce Cunningham
Dr. Louis Vernon
35. 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
Gas-lighting and curtain
Denishawn
Hanya Holm
36. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Marius Petipa
Lindy Hop
Cachucha
Massine
37. 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
Ruby Keeler
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Acts of Light - 1981
Massine
38. 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
Suzanne Linglor
Charles Weidman
Ivanov
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
39. Famous ballerina who formed her own company and toured 1910 - famous for portraying birds - insects - and plants - brought ballet (aristocratic art) to the common person (high schools - etc.)
Mary Wigman
Dr. Louis Vernon
Anna Pavlova
Judson Church
40. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Divertissement
Robert le Diable
Lion King - 1998
Suzanne Linglor
41. 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
Dr. Louis Vernon
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Savoy Ballroom
Gus Solomons Jr
42. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Gus Solomons Jr
Carlotta Grisi
Ruby Keeler
Still/Here - 1994
43. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Romantic Era
Ronald Brown
HIV+
Fanny Elssler
44. 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
Tsar
Debussy
George Balanchine
45. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Anna Pavlova
Arthur Saint Leon
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
HIV+
46. 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
Talley Beatty
Fall and Recovery
Hanya Holm
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
47. 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
Savoy Ballroom
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Eleo Pomare
Cleopatre -1909
48. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Milhaud
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Alwin Nikolais
Foyer de la Danse
49. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Deeply There - 1998
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Buddy Dean Show
Coca Chanel
50. 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
Robert Joffrey
Still/Here - 1994
Fokine
Les Noces - 1923