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Dance History
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1. Choreographed by Petipa & Ivanov - Odette (under a spell) & Odile look alike - Prince Siegfried (Odette saves other swans & tells him her tale) - his mother throws a ball for him to find a wife - Odile shows up as Odette & Prince commits his love to
La Sylphide - 1832
John Cage
Diaghilev
Swan Lake - 1895
2. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
Jeux - 1913
Pablo Picasso
Anton Dolin
Divertissement
3. 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
Tap Dance
Ruth St. Denis
Petipa Styles of Movement
Gus Solomons Jr
4. 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
Tsar
Eleo Pomare
Carlotta Grisi
American Ballet Theater
5. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Nijinska
Agon - 1957
Joe Goode
Parade - 1917
6. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
Marie Taglioni
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Hip-hop
John Cage
7. 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.
Duet - 1957
Suzanne Linglor
Cleopatre -1909
Talley Beatty
8. Started in NYC by Robert Joffrey - small company - repertoire was eclectic and contemporary - reconstructed works from Diaghilev's Ballets Russes - Financially weak - often folded - moved to LA then chicago
Busby Berkeley
Tchaikovsky
Merce Cunningham
Joffrey Ballet
9. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Stravinsky
Giselle - 1841
John Cage
10. 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
Talley Beatty
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Lion King - 1998
11. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Charles Didelot
Cleopatre -1909
Industrial Revolution
American Ballet Theater
12. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Suzanne Linglor
Ballet Russes
Imperial Russian Ballet
Mary Wigman
13. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Lindy Hop
Paul Taylor
Philip Taglioni
Ivanov
14. 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
Ballroom Dance
Middle Class
Rudolph Laban
Imperial Russian Ballet
15. 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
Fall and Recovery
Acts of Light - 1981
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Buddy Dean Show
16. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
La Sylphide - 1832
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Percussive Movement
Mary Wigman
17. Choreography Deeply There
Still/Here - 1994
John Cage
Coca Chanel
Joe Goode
18. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Rudolph Laban
Industrial Revolution
Fall and Recovery
19. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
Jose Limon
Paul Taylor
Debussy
Bill T. Jones
20. Most important figure in Russia in immediately pre-Romantic days. Did much to improve the repertory and teaching. 20 ballets - raised standards. Flying wires - pointe works.
Merce Cunningham
Suzanne Linglor
Charles Didelot
Russian Revolution
21. St. Denis and Ted Shawn's company that helps spread the gospel of dance from the constraints of ballet - opened a school in Los Angeles - brought dance to the middle class by supporting good health and virginal spirituality
Rudolph Laban
Denishawn
Cleopatre -1909
Robert Joffrey
22. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Pelvic contraction and release
Rudolph Nureyev
Political Asylum
23. 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
Alwin Nikolais
Debussy
Schizophrenia
Leon Bakst
24. 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
Middle Class
Industrial Revolution
Milhaud
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
25. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Middle Class
Debussy
Judson Church
26. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
Percussive Movement
Charles Weidman
Giselle - 1841
Marie Taglioni
27. Choreographer of Parade & Three-Cornered hat - known for symphonic ballet - comedy satire - character dancing - and color
Imperial Russian Ballet
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Massine
28. 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
Jeux - 1913
Leon Bakst
Buddy Dean Show
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
29. Broke color barrier - developed stair dance - danced with Shirley Temple - made 'honorary mayor of Harlem' -
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30. 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
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Eleo Pomare
Russian Revolution
Schizophrenia
31. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
Jitterbug
Agon - 1957
Louis Horst
Judson Church
32. Student of Mary Wigman. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German modern to U.S. but Americanized her technique. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew
Agon - 1957
Hanya Holm
Dance Theater of Harlem
Jean Baptiste Lande
33. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Lincoln Kirstein
Nijinska
Leon Bakst
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
34. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Anna Pavlova
Jean Baptiste Lande
Bill T. Jones
Jeux - 1913
35. 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)
Foyer de la Danse
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Doris Humphrey
Duet - 1957
36. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Aureole - 1962
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Apollo - 1928
Suzanne Linglor
37. 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
Judson Church
Ivanov
Ballet Russes
Scheherezade
38. 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
Postmodern Dance
Jeux - 1913
Apollo - 1928
Dr. Louis Vernon
39. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Philip Taglioni
Tsar
Grand Pas de Deux
Les Sylphides
40. 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
Ted Shawn
Jeux - 1913
Robert Ellis Dunn
Lindy Hop
41. 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.)
Ronald Brown
Donald McKayle
Africanist Aesthetic
Anna Pavlova
42. 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
Eleo Pomare
Apollo - 1928
Foyer de la Danse
Jose Limon
43. 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
Grand Pas de Deux
George Balanchine
New York City Ballet
Margaret Sanger
44. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Cachucha
Duet - 1957
Lindy Hop
Rudolph Nureyev
45. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Judson Church
Ballroom Dance
Rudolph Laban
46. 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
Lincoln Kirstein
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Agon - 1957
AIDS
47. 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.
Political Asylum
Robert Ellis Dunn
Loie Fuller
Garth Fagan
48. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Gas-lighting and curtain
Robert le Diable
August Bournonville
Swan Lake - 1895
49. 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
Robert Ellis Dunn
Margaret Sanger
Busby Berkeley
Alvin Ailey
50. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Fall and Recovery
Agon - 1957
Dr. Louis Vernon
Shirley Temple