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Dance History
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1. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Rudolph Laban
Rudolph Nureyev
Industrial Revolution
Robert Ellis Dunn
2. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Katherine Dunham
Mary Wigman
Martha Graham
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
3. 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
Jitterbug
Louis Horst
Alvin Ailey
4. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Katherine Dunham
Parade - 1917
Stravinsky
Buddy Dean Show
5. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Garth Fagan
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Romantic Era
6. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
American Ballet Theater
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Jockey Club
Doris Humphrey
7. 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
Giselle - 1841
Rose Adagio
Charles Didelot
Fokine
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
Alwin Nikolais
La Sylphide - 1832
Carlotta Grisi
Diaghilev
9. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
The Art of Making Dances
Les Noces - 1923
Percussive Movement
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
10. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Anton Dolin
Twyla Tharp
Charles Didelot
Still/Here - 1994
11. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Hip-hop
Massine
Philip Taglioni
Ted Shawn
12. 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
AIDS
Giselle - 1841
Robert Ellis Dunn
Debussy
13. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Cleopatre -1909
Charles Didelot
Katherine Dunham
La Sylphide - 1832
14. 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
Martha Graham
Theophile Gautier
Prince of Wales
The Nutcracker - 1892
15. Workers who earned enough money to be able to become consumer of art and material goods following the Industrial Revolution; escapism became a huge hit when the Depression hit to escape harsh reality
Nijinska
Robert le Diable
Joffrey Ballet
Middle Class
16. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Suzanne Linglor
Paul Taylor
Buddy Dean Show
Pelvic contraction and release
17. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Rite of Spring - 1913
August Bournonville
Prince of Wales
Le Train Bleu - 1924
18. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Imperial Russian Ballet
Cleopatre -1909
Les Sylphides
19. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Coppelia
Alvin Ailey
Savoy Ballroom
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
20. 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
Fokine
HIV+
Margaret Sanger
Joe Goode
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`
Marie Taglioni
Franco-Prussian War
Cachucha
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
22. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Busby Berkeley
Pilobolus
Agon - 1957
Lion King - 1998
23. Radically new or original
Rose Adagio
Avant-Garde
La Sylphide - 1832
Jean Jacques Rousseau
24. 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.
Political Asylum
Shirley Temple
Debussy
Lindy Hop
25. 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
Charles Weidman
Lion King - 1998
Ivanov
Lincoln Kirstein
26. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Swan Lake - 1895
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Coca Chanel
27. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Arthur Mitchell
The Dying Swan - 1905
Louis Horst
HIV+
28. From its very beginning the ballet was entirely dependent upon this individual; it was his ballet - under the direct supervision and guidance of a court minister appointed by this individual and answerable to him
Talley Beatty
Donald McKayle
Tsar
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
29. 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
Margaret Sanger
Savoy Ballroom
Donald McKayle
Stravinsky
30. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Robert Joffrey
Cachucha
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
31. 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
Nijinska
Hip-hop
Robert le Diable
Coca Chanel
32. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
Aureole - 1962
Harlem
Anton Dolin
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
33. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Foyer de la Danse
Lindy Hop
Ulysses Dove
Milhaud
34. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Cleopatre -1909
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Twyla Tharp
Jules Perrot
35. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Jockey Club
Rose Adagio
Nijinska
August Bournonville
36. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Petrouchka - 1911
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Jules Perrot
37. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Gas-lighting and curtain
Jeux - 1913
Rudolph Nureyev
Massine
38. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Suzanne Linglor
American Ballet Theater
Petipa Styles of Movement
New York City Ballet
39. A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
AIDS
Alwin Nikolais
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Divertissement
40. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Dr. Louis Vernon
Middle Class
Leon Bakst
41. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
The Dying Swan - 1905
Pilobolus
Franco-Prussian War
Prince of Wales
42. 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.
Romantic Era
Milhaud
Foyer de la Danse
Ballet Russes
43. Designer. Influenced by Greek and Asian art. Costumes and sets full of bold colors. Decorative motifs that employed perspective painting. Successful with ballet. 'sophisticated eclecticism'. Teacher.
Lincoln Kirstein
Pilobolus
Leon Bakst
Nijinska
44. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Rudolph Nureyev
Avant-Garde
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Postmodern Dance
45. 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
Jitterbug
Political Asylum
Isadora Duncan
Philip Taglioni
46. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Schizophrenia
Les Sylphides
Diaghilev
Mary Wigman
47. 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
Gas-lighting and curtain
Shirley Temple
Coppelia
Gus Solomons Jr
48. 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
American Ballet Theater
Gas-lighting and curtain
Judson Church
49. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Bill T. Jones
Russian Revolution
Lincoln Kirstein
Tchaikovsky
50. 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
Charles Didelot
Arthur Mitchell
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
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