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1. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
Jitterbug
Coca Chanel
Ruby Keeler
Leon Bakst
2. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Jules Perrot
Lindy Hop
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Cachucha
3. 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
Grand Pas de Deux
La Sylphide - 1832
Donald McKayle
Middle Class
4. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Tap Dance
New York City Ballet
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Twyla Tharp
5. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Ruby Keeler
Pelvic contraction and release
Marie Taglioni
Gas-lighting and curtain
6. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Franco-Prussian War
Margaret Sanger
Agon - 1957
Coppelia
7. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Swan Lake - 1895
Milhaud
Carlotta Grisi
Alwin Nikolais
8. 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
Mary Wigman
Shirley Temple
Joe Goode
Le Train Bleu - 1924
9. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Postmodern Dance
Pelvic contraction and release
Percussive Movement
10. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Carlotta Grisi
Percussive Movement
Mary Wigman
Fanny Elssler
11. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Gas-lighting and curtain
Africanist Aesthetic
Ballroom Dance
Ivanov
12. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Russian Revolution
Pelvic contraction and release
Harlem
Joffrey Ballet
13. Different names but same theater under different political influences
Rudolph Nureyev
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Diaghilev
Romantic Era
14. 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
Carlotta Grisi
Lincoln Kirstein
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Tensile Involvement - 1953
15. 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
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Lincoln Kirstein
Robert le Diable
Alwin Nikolais
16. 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
Pilobolus
American Ballet Theater
The Nutcracker - 1892
Talley Beatty
17. 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
Scheherezade
Margaret Sanger
Alvin Ailey
Savoy Ballroom
18. Choreography Deeply There
Prince of Wales
Joe Goode
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Ballroom Dance
19. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
Lincoln Kirstein
Jitterbug
Robert Joffrey
Petipa Styles of Movement
20. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Robert Joffrey
Schizophrenia
Pelvic contraction and release
21. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Jose Limon
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Fokine
Franco-Prussian War
22. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Eleo Pomare
Ulysses Dove
Robert le Diable
Deeply There - 1998
23. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
Petrouchka - 1911
Jockey Club
Tap Dance
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
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
Middle Class
Charles Weidman
Robert Joffrey
Schizophrenia
25. 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
Agon - 1957
Jean Coralli
Leon Bakst
American Ballet Theater
26. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Tchaikovsky
Imperial Russian Ballet
Percussive Movement
Tap Dance
27. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Ted Shawn
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Lincoln Kirstein
Tap Dance
28. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Les Noces - 1923
Dance Theater of Harlem
Swan Lake - 1895
New York City Ballet
29. 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.)
Loie Fuller
Anna Pavlova
August Bournonville
Scheherezade
30. Contemporary of Duncan's. Design orientation. Known for manipulation of costumes that would make flowing patterns and dance was non-emotional. Also did light design.
Scheherezade
Loie Fuller
Ted Shawn
Cleopatre -1909
31. 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.
Diaghilev
Lindy Hop
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Leon Bakst
32. 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
Philip Taglioni
Ruth St. Denis
Suzanne Linglor
Pilobolus
33. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Arthur Mitchell
Gas-lighting and curtain
Nijinsky
Jeux - 1913
34. (1822-1910) created the first ballet that would later be classified as classical ballet. He also held the position of Ballet Master in Chief to the Imperial Tsar in 1869. created Don Quixote and La Bayadere and many other works. Though he did not cho
Diaghilev
Ronald Brown
Jean Baptiste Lande
Marius Petipa
35. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Schizophrenia
Scheherezade
Petrouchka - 1911
Jean Coralli
36. 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
Tchaikovsky
Cachucha
37. 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
Stravinsky
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Eleo Pomare
Bill T. Jones
38. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
Ulysses Dove
Marie Taglioni
August Bournonville
Fokine
39. 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
Coca Chanel
Philip Taglioni
Carlotta Grisi
Pablo Picasso
40. 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.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Parade - 1917
La Sylphide - 1832
Franco-Prussian War
41. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Parade - 1917
Fokine
August Bournonville
42. 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
Harlem
Pilobolus
Buddy Dean Show
Four Temperaments - 1946
43. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Ruth St. Denis
Romantic Era
Tsar
Suzanne Linglor
44. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Imperial Russian Ballet
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Ballroom Dance
Twyla Tharp
45. 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
Rite of Spring - 1913
Aureole - 1962
Divertissement
Giselle - 1841
46. 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
Hip-hop
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Le Train Bleu - 1924
La Sylphide - 1832
47. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
Nijinsky
Alwin Nikolais
Paul Taylor
Avant-Garde
48. 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
Paul Taylor
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Katherine Dunham
Mary Wigman
49. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Gas-lighting and curtain
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Fanny Elssler
Joffrey Ballet
50. 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.
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Duet - 1957
Parade - 1917
Robert le Diable