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Dance History
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1. 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
American Ballet Theater
Martha Graham
Jeux - 1913
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
2. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Still/Here - 1994
Rose Adagio
Arthur Saint Leon
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
3. First book of choreography; published posthumously in 1959
The Art of Making Dances
Marius Petipa
Nijinsky
Debussy
4. 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
Busby Berkeley
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Jean Coralli
Doris Humphrey
5. From its very beginning the ballet was entirely dependent upon this individual; it was his ballet - under the direct supervision and guidance of a court minister appointed by this individual and answerable to him
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Nutcracker - 1892
Tsar
Gas-lighting and curtain
6. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
The Nutcracker - 1892
Donald McKayle
Rudolph Nureyev
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
7. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Nijinsky
Ruth St. Denis
Divertissement
Pablo Picasso
8. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Ted Shawn
Judson Church
Les Noces - 1923
Mikhail Baryshnikov
9. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Lincoln Kirstein
Aureole - 1962
Pelvic contraction and release
Africanist Aesthetic
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
New York City Ballet
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Theophile Gautier
11. 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
Hanya Holm
Pablo Picasso
Ulysses Dove
Industrial Revolution
12. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
Russian Revolution
Judson Church
Prince of Wales
Arthur Saint Leon
13. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Robert Joffrey
Swan Lake - 1895
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
John Cage
14. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Talley Beatty
HIV+
15. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
August Bournonville
Jockey Club
Lindy Hop
Africanist Aesthetic
16. Different names but same theater under different political influences
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Hip-hop
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
17. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
Russian Revolution
Nijinska
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
D-Man in the Water - 1989
18. Famous for her incredible technique - lightness - and ethereal presence -(1804-1884) -Introduced new costume design (bare neck/shoulders - tutu) -Perfected dancing en pointe -La Sylphide`
Nijinsky
Ballroom Dance
Marie Taglioni
Harlem
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
Tchaikovsky
Dr. Louis Vernon
Jean Coralli
Hip-hop
20. 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
Hip-hop
Anton Dolin
Lion King - 1998
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
21. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Robert le Diable
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Anna Pavlova
Scheherezade
22. 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
Ruth St. Denis
Merce Cunningham
Debussy
Nijinsky
23. 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)
Alwin Nikolais
Petipa Styles of Movement
Nicholas Brothers
Carlotta Grisi
24. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Tap Dance
Jean Coralli
Suzanne Linglor
Arthur Mitchell
25. 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
Ted Shawn
Russian Revolution
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Hanya Holm
26. 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
Ruby Keeler
Gas-lighting and curtain
Buddy Dean Show
Jose Limon
27. 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
Romantic Era
Africanist Aesthetic
Ted Shawn
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
28. 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
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Anna Pavlova
Cleopatre -1909
29. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
Alwin Nikolais
Cleopatre -1909
Anna Pavlova
Katherine Dunham
30. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Coppelia
Theophile Gautier
Cachucha
Les Noces - 1923
31. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Merce Cunningham
Nijinska
Still/Here - 1994
Avant-Garde
32. 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
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Lincoln Kirstein
Margaret Sanger
Russian Revolution
33. Ballet with music by Erik Satie and a one-act scenario by Jean Cocteau. The ballet was composed 1916-1917 for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The ballet premiered on Friday - May 18th - 1917 at the Thaa
Les Sylphides
Ulysses Dove
Parade - 1917
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
34. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Alwin Nikolais
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Petrouchka - 1911
Robert le Diable
35. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Les Sylphides
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Lincoln Kirstein
Buddy Dean Show
36. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Cleopatre -1909
Mary Wigman
Franco-Prussian War
Jean Jacques Rousseau
37. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Anton Dolin
Coppelia
Parade - 1917
38. 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
Gus Solomons Jr
Donald McKayle
Ulysses Dove
Pilobolus
39. 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.
Franco-Prussian War
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Jules Perrot
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
40. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Les Sylphides
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Hip-hop
Arthur Mitchell
41. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Foyer de la Danse
Gas-lighting and curtain
Loie Fuller
Mikhail Baryshnikov
42. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
Bill T. Jones
George Balanchine
Judson Church
Ruby Keeler
43. 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.
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Shirley Temple
Jockey Club
Russian Revolution
44. HIV - choreographed Still Here - organized survivor workshops
Nicholas Brothers
Acts of Light - 1981
Bill T. Jones
Robert Ellis Dunn
45. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
Tsar
Ballroom Dance
Alwin Nikolais
Jitterbug
46. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Savoy Ballroom
Ballroom Dance
Tchaikovsky
Paul Taylor
47. Wrote Discourse on the Origins of the Inequality of Mankind; wrote The Social Contract; wrote Confessions; believed that emotions as well as reason were important to human development but sent his own children to orphanages
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Talley Beatty
Giselle - 1841
Parade - 1917
48. Nijinsky choreographed - in the forest - nymphs shows up to flirt with the Faun - one of them drops her scarf - they all leave - and he masturbates into the scarf
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Petrouchka - 1911
Savoy Ballroom
Rose Adagio
49. 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
Les Noces - 1923
Gus Solomons Jr
Bill T. Jones
Four Temperaments - 1946
50. 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
Cleopatre -1909
Duet - 1957
Avant-Garde