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Dance History
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1. 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.)
Anna Pavlova
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Philip Taglioni
2. 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
New York City Ballet
Giselle - 1841
Nijinsky
Pablo Picasso
3. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Talley Beatty
Pilobolus
The Nutcracker - 1892
Rudolph Nureyev
4. 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
Diaghilev
Grand Pas de Deux
Robert Ellis Dunn
Schizophrenia
5. 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
Russian Revolution
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Rose Adagio
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
6. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
Tap Dance
Rudolph Nureyev
Coppelia
HIV+
7. 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`
Pablo Picasso
Marie Taglioni
Tap Dance
Foyer de la Danse
8. 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
Carlotta Grisi
Hanya Holm
Franco-Prussian War
9. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Ballroom Dance
19th Amendment
Swan Lake - 1895
Percussive Movement
10. Choreography Deeply There
Joe Goode
Parade - 1917
Le Train Bleu - 1924
19th Amendment
11. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Nijinsky
Still/Here - 1994
Jose Limon
Louis Horst
12. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Tsar
Fall and Recovery
Hanya Holm
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
13. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Doris Humphrey
Arthur Mitchell
Joffrey Ballet
Stravinsky
14. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
Mary Wigman
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Eleo Pomare
Katherine Dunham
15. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Tchaikovsky
Ruby Keeler
Nijinska
Philip Taglioni
16. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Aureole - 1962
Prince of Wales
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Rose Adagio
17. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Rite of Spring - 1913
Industrial Revolution
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Hip-hop
18. 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
John Cage
Nijinska
Four Temperaments - 1946
Jean Jacques Rousseau
19. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
19th Amendment
Schizophrenia
HIV+
Charles Weidman
20. 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
Franco-Prussian War
Still/Here - 1994
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Talley Beatty
21. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Still/Here - 1994
Petrouchka - 1911
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
22. 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
Cleopatre -1909
La Sylphide - 1832
Imperial Russian Ballet
Lincoln Kirstein
23. 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
Parade - 1917
Buddy Dean Show
AIDS
August Bournonville
24. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
The Nutcracker - 1892
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Charles Weidman
Philip Taglioni
25. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Margaret Sanger
Leon Bakst
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
26. 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
Anton Dolin
Petipa Styles of Movement
Joe Goode
Tap Dance
27. 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.
The Dying Swan - 1905
Charles Didelot
Giselle - 1841
Avant-Garde
28. 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
Buddy Dean Show
Political Asylum
Divertissement
Ted Shawn
29. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Ronald Brown
Shirley Temple
Jose Limon
30. 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
Ballroom Dance
Ivanov
Divertissement
Savoy Ballroom
31. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Theophile Gautier
Dance Theater of Harlem
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Rudolph Nureyev
32. 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
Jean Coralli
Hanya Holm
Stravinsky
33. 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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34. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
The Art of Making Dances
Political Asylum
Coppelia
Lindy Hop
35. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Robert le Diable
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Milhaud
Cleopatre -1909
36. 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
Robert Joffrey
Jeux - 1913
Isadora Duncan
37. 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
The Art of Making Dances
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
38. 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.
Anton Dolin
Coca Chanel
Fanny Elssler
Shirley Temple
39. 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
Gus Solomons Jr
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Four Temperaments - 1946
Ulysses Dove
40. 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
Franco-Prussian War
Merce Cunningham
Gus Solomons Jr
Hip-hop
41. 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
Giselle - 1841
Savoy Ballroom
Ballet Russes
Middle Class
42. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Charles Didelot
Eleo Pomare
Prince of Wales
Diaghilev
43. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Jeux - 1913
Rudolph Laban
Anna Pavlova
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
44. 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.
Anna Pavlova
Les Sylphides
Duet - 1957
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
45. 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
Les Noces - 1923
Four Temperaments - 1946
Nijinsky
Scheherezade
46. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
The Art of Making Dances
Nijinsky
Acts of Light - 1981
Robert le Diable
47. 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
Robert Joffrey
John Cage
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Ted Shawn
48. 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
Dr. Louis Vernon
Dance Theater of Harlem
Joffrey Ballet
Tsar
49. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Still/Here - 1994
American Ballet Theater
Prince of Wales
Petrouchka - 1911
50. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Milhaud
Scheherezade
Duet - 1957
Stravinsky