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Dance History
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1. 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
Margaret Sanger
Rose Adagio
Fokine
John Cage
2. 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
Fokine
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Savoy Ballroom
3. 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
Suzanne Linglor
Joffrey Ballet
Romantic Era
Tensile Involvement - 1953
4. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Rudolph Nureyev
Percussive Movement
Scheherezade
Twyla Tharp
5. 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
Rudolph Nureyev
Eleo Pomare
Doris Humphrey
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
6. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
Jitterbug
Jose Limon
Fokine
Jules Perrot
7. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Twyla Tharp
Grand Pas de Deux
Cachucha
8. 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
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Agon - 1957
Rose Adagio
9. 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
Ronald Brown
The Art of Making Dances
Coppelia
Talley Beatty
10. 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
Buddy Dean Show
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Ballet Russes
Jeux - 1913
11. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Leon Bakst
Cachucha
Petipa Styles of Movement
Petrouchka - 1911
12. Beginning of modern dance - danced with bare feet - wore flowing Greek-style robe - died being strangled from a long-flowing scarf caught in a car wheel
Alvin Ailey
Charles Didelot
Donald McKayle
Isadora Duncan
13. 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
Agon - 1957
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Merce Cunningham
Ruby Keeler
14. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Pablo Picasso
Philip Taglioni
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
15. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Lindy Hop
Jean Baptiste Lande
Charles Weidman
Diaghilev
16. 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
Buddy Dean Show
Tap Dance
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
August Bournonville
17. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
Charles Didelot
Ronald Brown
Fokine
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
18. 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)
Arthur Saint Leon
Ronald Brown
Franco-Prussian War
Doris Humphrey
19. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Pablo Picasso
Acts of Light - 1981
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Bill T. Jones
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
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Foyer de la Danse
Loie Fuller
21. 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
Postmodern Dance
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Denishawn
Fanny Elssler
22. 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
Massine
Aureole - 1962
Ruth St. Denis
Schizophrenia
23. 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
Hip-hop
Swan Lake - 1895
Dr. Louis Vernon
Merce Cunningham
24. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Giselle - 1841
Swan Lake - 1895
Industrial Revolution
Talley Beatty
25. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Deeply There - 1998
Swan Lake - 1895
Giselle - 1841
Mary Wigman
26. 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
Merce Cunningham
Pelvic contraction and release
Fall and Recovery
Hanya Holm
27. 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
Cachucha
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Eleo Pomare
Parade - 1917
28. 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
Jitterbug
Ruth St. Denis
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Carlotta Grisi
29. Petipa & Tchaikovsky - was not successful at the time it came out - no trace of sensible dramatic action
Agon - 1957
Charles Weidman
Ulysses Dove
The Nutcracker - 1892
30. 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
Les Noces - 1923
Aureole - 1962
Denishawn
31. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Swan Lake - 1895
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Cleopatre -1909
32. 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
Ted Shawn
Charles Weidman
Four Temperaments - 1946
33. 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`
Tchaikovsky
Parade - 1917
Marie Taglioni
Busby Berkeley
34. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
Ronald Brown
Philip Taglioni
Africanist Aesthetic
Katherine Dunham
35. 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
Marie Taglioni
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Debussy
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
36. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Coca Chanel
Pilobolus
Middle Class
New York City Ballet
37. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Milhaud
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Alwin Nikolais
Still/Here - 1994
38. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Ulysses Dove
Arthur Mitchell
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Marius Petipa
39. 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
Jules Perrot
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Jean Baptiste Lande
40. Different names but same theater under different political influences
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Ballroom Dance
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
41. (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
Fall and Recovery
Aureole - 1962
Alvin Ailey
Arthur Mitchell
42. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Louis Horst
The Art of Making Dances
Gas-lighting and curtain
Charles Didelot
43. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Petrouchka - 1911
Ruby Keeler
Massine
Russian Revolution
44. 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
Parade - 1917
Fokine
John Cage
Savoy Ballroom
45. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Jockey Club
Paul Taylor
Alvin Ailey
Four Temperaments - 1946
46. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
AIDS
Industrial Revolution
Les Noces - 1923
Tchaikovsky
47. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
August Bournonville
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Savoy Ballroom
Cachucha
48. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Les Noces - 1923
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Arthur Saint Leon
Imperial Russian Ballet
49. 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
Cachucha
Postmodern Dance
Theophile Gautier
Aureole - 1962
50. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Robert le Diable
Cachucha