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Dance History
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1. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
Still/Here - 1994
Robert le Diable
Twyla Tharp
Ronald Brown
2. 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
Four Temperaments - 1946
Middle Class
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
George Balanchine
3. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Pelvic contraction and release
Les Sylphides
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Daughter of the Pharaoh
4. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Les Sylphides
Suzanne Linglor
Anton Dolin
Petrouchka - 1911
5. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Mary Wigman
August Bournonville
Aureole - 1962
Duet - 1957
6. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Jean Coralli
Ballroom Dance
Fall and Recovery
Grand Pas de Deux
7. 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)
Nicholas Brothers
Rose Adagio
Romantic Era
American Ballet Theater
8. 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.
Foyer de la Danse
Leon Bakst
Lion King - 1998
Philip Taglioni
9. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Industrial Revolution
Massine
Rudolph Nureyev
Aureole - 1962
10. Alwin Nikolais - had a lot of ribbons - very involved in the sounds - wearing skin colored clothes - drum music - elastic ropes and strings - all across stage
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Arthur Mitchell
Ulysses Dove
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
11. First book of choreography; published posthumously in 1959
Industrial Revolution
Prince of Wales
The Art of Making Dances
Diaghilev
12. 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
Denishawn
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Dance Theater of Harlem
La Sylphide - 1832
13. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Jeux - 1913
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Philip Taglioni
Savoy Ballroom
14. 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
Paul Taylor
Margaret Sanger
Eleo Pomare
Divertissement
15. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Agon - 1957
Grand Pas de Deux
Stravinsky
Anton Dolin
16. Dancer - choreographer - teacher - born 1930 in NY - began dancing senior year of HS - scholarship to New Dance group. studied with Primus. Professional debut in 1948 - choreographed 1st pieces with group when 18 - 1951 founded contemporary dance gro
Donald McKayle
Schizophrenia
Ruby Keeler
Four Temperaments - 1946
17. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
The Art of Making Dances
Lindy Hop
Hip-hop
18. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Diaghilev
August Bournonville
Tchaikovsky
Nijinska
19. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Nijinska
Ruby Keeler
Suzanne Linglor
20. 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+
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Tap Dance
Franco-Prussian War
21. 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
Rudolph Laban
Ruby Keeler
Tsar
Le Train Bleu - 1924
22. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
AIDS
Jitterbug
Louis Horst
Alwin Nikolais
23. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Theophile Gautier
The Art of Making Dances
Dance Theater of Harlem
24. 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
Jules Perrot
D-Man in the Water - 1989
La Sylphide - 1832
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
25. 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
Russian Revolution
La Sylphide - 1832
Prince of Wales
Carlotta Grisi
26. 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
Schizophrenia
George Balanchine
Dance Theater of Harlem
Margaret Sanger
27. Choreographer of Parade & Three-Cornered hat - known for symphonic ballet - comedy satire - character dancing - and color
George Balanchine
Massine
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Pelvic contraction and release
28. 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.
Milhaud
Shirley Temple
Rose Adagio
Swan Lake - 1895
29. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Twyla Tharp
Petipa Styles of Movement
Grand Pas de Deux
Buddy Dean Show
30. 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
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Petrouchka - 1911
Hip-hop
Rite of Spring - 1913
31. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
Alwin Nikolais
Four Temperaments - 1946
Jose Limon
Black Swan Pas de Deux
32. 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
Carlotta Grisi
Twyla Tharp
Les Sylphides
Ted Shawn
33. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Parade - 1917
Jules Perrot
Isadora Duncan
Jitterbug
34. (1819-1899) -Italian ballerina -Leading role in Giselle -Combined techniques of Taglioni & Elssler -Known for strength & lightness
Schizophrenia
Divertissement
Carlotta Grisi
Debussy
35. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Industrial Revolution
Robert le Diable
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
36. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Jean Baptiste Lande
Tap Dance
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Imperial Russian Ballet
37. Choreography Deeply There
Diaghilev
Scheherezade
Joe Goode
Busby Berkeley
38. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Tap Dance
Arthur Saint Leon
Buddy Dean Show
Bill T. Jones
39. Wrote 'The Art of Making Dances' in 1931 - Fall and Recovery - inspired by Bach and used his work in many piece - choreographed pieces without music - Passacaglia and fugue in C minor (showed fall and recovery)
Ruby Keeler
Jean Coralli
Alwin Nikolais
Doris Humphrey
40. 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
Shirley Temple
Ronald Brown
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
41. 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
Jose Limon
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Nijinsky
42. 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
Fokine
Fall and Recovery
Rite of Spring - 1913
Ballet Russes
43. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
Les Sylphides
Katherine Dunham
Political Asylum
Margaret Sanger
44. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
John Cage
Le Train Bleu - 1924
HIV+
Romantic Era
45. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
John Cage
Rite of Spring - 1913
Deeply There - 1998
Rudolph Nureyev
46. 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
AIDS
Industrial Revolution
Tap Dance
Divertissement
47. 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
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Deeply There - 1998
Margaret Sanger
48. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Still/Here - 1994
Deeply There - 1998
Franco-Prussian War
49. 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
Acts of Light - 1981
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Busby Berkeley
Le Train Bleu - 1924
50. 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
New York City Ballet
Donald McKayle
Imperial Russian Ballet
Schizophrenia