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Dance History
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1. 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
Merce Cunningham
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Marie Taglioni
Le Train Bleu - 1924
2. 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
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
La Sylphide - 1832
Grand Pas de Deux
Four Temperaments - 1946
3. 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
Charles Weidman
Agon - 1957
Paul Taylor
Rudolph Laban
4. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Theophile Gautier
John Cage
August Bournonville
Ted Shawn
5. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Jockey Club
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
John Cage
Deeply There - 1998
6. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Margaret Sanger
Jules Perrot
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Agon - 1957
7. 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
Ballet Russes
Franco-Prussian War
Ruby Keeler
Massine
8. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
The Dying Swan - 1905
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Divertissement
9. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
Rudolph Laban
Apollo - 1928
Lincoln Kirstein
19th Amendment
10. Was inspired by a cigarette poster featuring the Egyptian goddess Isis to begin investigation Asian art and dance - Founded the Denishawn School of dancing and Related Arts with her husband Ted Shawn in 1915 in Los Angeles - California - Believed tha
Ruth St. Denis
Buddy Dean Show
Hanya Holm
American Ballet Theater
11. 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.
HIV+
Franco-Prussian War
Agon - 1957
Shirley Temple
12. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Rudolph Nureyev
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Eleo Pomare
Percussive Movement
13. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Foyer de la Danse
Franco-Prussian War
14. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Denishawn
Arthur Saint Leon
Ballet Russes
Black Swan Pas de Deux
15. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Franco-Prussian War
Joffrey Ballet
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Philip Taglioni
16. 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
Parade - 1917
Jean Coralli
Industrial Revolution
17. 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
Rose Adagio
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Tap Dance
Donald McKayle
18. 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
Donald McKayle
Pilobolus
Charles Weidman
19. 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
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Aureole - 1962
Alwin Nikolais
Dr. Louis Vernon
20. 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
Arthur Mitchell
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
21. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Hip-hop
Ronald Brown
Garth Fagan
Jeux - 1913
22. 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
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Fokine
Denishawn
Mary Wigman
23. 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
Mary Wigman
Franco-Prussian War
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Joffrey Ballet
24. 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
Robert le Diable
Political Asylum
Robert Ellis Dunn
25. High energy act of two African american brothers - Fayard and Harold - had a 'flash act' consisting of an acrobatic tap style - were in movies - only African Americans encouraged to mingle with audience (by audeince demand)
Arthur Saint Leon
Nicholas Brothers
Nijinsky
Twyla Tharp
26. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Ruby Keeler
Charles Weidman
Still/Here - 1994
Industrial Revolution
27. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Swan Lake - 1895
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Gas-lighting and curtain
Debussy
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
Charles Didelot
Fanny Elssler
Alvin Ailey
Debussy
29. 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
Postmodern Dance
Schizophrenia
Pilobolus
Divertissement
30. 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
Jules Perrot
Duet - 1957
Busby Berkeley
Le Train Bleu - 1924
31. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Pilobolus
Massine
Apollo - 1928
Louis Horst
32. 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
Ballroom Dance
Swan Lake - 1895
Parade - 1917
Middle Class
33. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Jules Perrot
Isadora Duncan
Cleopatre -1909
Black Swan Pas de Deux
34. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Judson Church
Garth Fagan
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Tap Dance
35. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
Fall and Recovery
Middle Class
Jose Limon
Cachucha
36. 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
Eleo Pomare
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Ivanov
Jules Perrot
37. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Talley Beatty
Alvin Ailey
Deeply There - 1998
The Dying Swan - 1905
38. 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
Savoy Ballroom
Ulysses Dove
Margaret Sanger
American Ballet Theater
39. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Nijinska
Aureole - 1962
Ulysses Dove
Arthur Saint Leon
40. 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
Giselle - 1841
Harlem
Theophile Gautier
41. 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
Les Noces - 1923
Margaret Sanger
Buddy Dean Show
Louis Horst
42. Different names but same theater under different political influences
Schizophrenia
Garth Fagan
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Rudolph Laban
43. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Petrouchka - 1911
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
August Bournonville
Shirley Temple
44. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Ted Shawn
Russian Revolution
Nicholas Brothers
Mikhail Baryshnikov
45. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
The Nutcracker - 1892
Political Asylum
Alvin Ailey
Savoy Ballroom
46. 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
Grand Pas de Deux
Franco-Prussian War
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Hip-hop
47. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
Rose Adagio
Pilobolus
Twyla Tharp
Tchaikovsky
48. 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
Lion King - 1998
Nijinska
Debussy
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
49. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Russian Revolution
Jean Baptiste Lande
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
50. 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
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Nijinsky
Franco-Prussian War
Savoy Ballroom