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Dance History
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1. 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
Industrial Revolution
Dance Theater of Harlem
Debussy
Rudolph Nureyev
2. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Suzanne Linglor
Doris Humphrey
The Nutcracker - 1892
Parade - 1917
3. 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
Russian Revolution
Hanya Holm
Pablo Picasso
Savoy Ballroom
4. 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.
Les Noces - 1923
Avant-Garde
Duet - 1957
Middle Class
5. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Hip-hop
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Jockey Club
Robert le Diable
6. 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
Jeux - 1913
Louis Horst
Nijinska
Debussy
7. 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
Merce Cunningham
Dance Theater of Harlem
Acts of Light - 1981
Shirley Temple
8. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Percussive Movement
Fall and Recovery
Charles Weidman
AIDS
9. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Agon - 1957
Margaret Sanger
Diaghilev
Russian Revolution
10. 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
Jeux - 1913
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Franco-Prussian War
Schizophrenia
11. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Stravinsky
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Cachucha
Grand Pas de Deux
12. 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
Africanist Aesthetic
Eleo Pomare
Lincoln Kirstein
Rose Adagio
13. Radically new or original
Avant-Garde
Rudolph Laban
Deeply There - 1998
Alvin Ailey
14. 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
Ruby Keeler
Four Temperaments - 1946
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Daughter of the Pharaoh
15. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
Isadora Duncan
Jean Coralli
Alwin Nikolais
John Cage
16. 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
Acts of Light - 1981
Carlotta Grisi
Fanny Elssler
Middle Class
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. 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
American Ballet Theater
Petrouchka - 1911
Paul Taylor
Mikhail Baryshnikov
19. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Ruby Keeler
Pelvic contraction and release
Katherine Dunham
20. 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
Africanist Aesthetic
Tap Dance
Duet - 1957
Talley Beatty
21. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Postmodern Dance
American Ballet Theater
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Black Swan Pas de Deux
22. Choreographer of Parade & Three-Cornered hat - known for symphonic ballet - comedy satire - character dancing - and color
Fall and Recovery
The Nutcracker - 1892
The Dying Swan - 1905
Massine
23. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Diaghilev
Jockey Club
Jose Limon
Romantic Era
24. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Tsar
Debussy
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Ulysses Dove
25. 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
Busby Berkeley
Fanny Elssler
Cachucha
Eleo Pomare
26. 1937 Founded by Ballet Russe's Mikhail Mordkin as Mordkin Ballet- Repertory company- features choreography of many artists such as Adolph Bolm - Michel Fokine - Leonide Massine - Bronislava Jijinska - Balanchine and Agnes de Mille
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Anton Dolin
American Ballet Theater
27. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Rite of Spring - 1913
Buddy Dean Show
Lindy Hop
Cachucha
28. (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
Anna Pavlova
Alvin Ailey
Isadora Duncan
Les Noces - 1923
29. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Jules Perrot
Marie Taglioni
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Debussy
30. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Ted Shawn
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Fokine
Agon - 1957
31. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Still/Here - 1994
Jockey Club
Imperial Russian Ballet
Jean Baptiste Lande
32. 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
Grand Pas de Deux
The Art of Making Dances
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Nijinsky
33. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Rudolph Nureyev
Lindy Hop
Divertissement
Scheherezade
34. 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
Jules Perrot
Harlem
Gus Solomons Jr
Pelvic contraction and release
35. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
19th Amendment
Charles Weidman
Loie Fuller
Four Temperaments - 1946
36. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Robert le Diable
Suzanne Linglor
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
37. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
Gas-lighting and curtain
Ulysses Dove
Fanny Elssler
Marie Taglioni
38. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Jeux - 1913
Jean Baptiste Lande
August Bournonville
Pelvic contraction and release
39. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Giselle - 1841
Charles Didelot
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
40. 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
Jean Coralli
Fokine
Charles Weidman
Ulysses Dove
41. 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
Rose Adagio
Lindy Hop
Dr. Louis Vernon
Merce Cunningham
42. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Romantic Era
Rose Adagio
Petrouchka - 1911
43. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Mary Wigman
Robert Joffrey
19th Amendment
Africanist Aesthetic
44. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Marius Petipa
Cleopatre -1909
Africanist Aesthetic
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
45. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
Louis Horst
Ballet Russes
HIV+
Choreographers who died of AIDS
46. 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.
Imperial Russian Ballet
Prince of Wales
Jitterbug
Leon Bakst
47. 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
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Jean Baptiste Lande
New York City Ballet
48. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Jose Limon
Les Noces - 1923
Jules Perrot
Russian Revolution
49. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Lindy Hop
Arthur Mitchell
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Milhaud
50. Interrupted first flush of success of Coppelia and the included the siege of Paris - which also led to the early death of Giuseppina Bozzacchi - on her 17th birthday - but eventually it became the most-performed ballet at the Opera Garnier.
Robert Joffrey
Massine
Franco-Prussian War
Joffrey Ballet