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Dance History
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1. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Pablo Picasso
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Ulysses Dove
Divertissement
2. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
Jockey Club
George Balanchine
Ronald Brown
Joe Goode
3. 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
Jockey Club
Pablo Picasso
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Robert le Diable
4. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
Anton Dolin
Merce Cunningham
Jeux - 1913
Four Temperaments - 1946
5. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
Ulysses Dove
Agon - 1957
Choreographers who died of AIDS
19th Amendment
6. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Hip-hop
Duet - 1957
Pelvic contraction and release
Lindy Hop
7. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Leon Bakst
The Art of Making Dances
Pilobolus
New York City Ballet
8. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
Buddy Dean Show
Jitterbug
Katherine Dunham
Dr. Louis Vernon
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
Joffrey Ballet
The Nutcracker - 1892
Harlem
Talley Beatty
10. 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
Busby Berkeley
Tchaikovsky
American Ballet Theater
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
11. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Jean Baptiste Lande
Tchaikovsky
Divertissement
The Art of Making Dances
12. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Russian Revolution
Agon - 1957
Garth Fagan
Alwin Nikolais
13. 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
Jean Baptiste Lande
Les Noces - 1923
Massine
Eleo Pomare
14. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Industrial Revolution
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Petrouchka - 1911
Carlotta Grisi
15. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
Coppelia
Doris Humphrey
Massine
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
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
George Balanchine
Rose Adagio
Tap Dance
Donald McKayle
17. Teacher in Merce's studio Who is remembered for creating a competitive environment filled w/ experimentation for new dance styles
Carlotta Grisi
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Robert Ellis Dunn
Le Train Bleu - 1924
18. 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
August Bournonville
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Postmodern Dance
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
19. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Anton Dolin
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Mary Wigman
Jeux - 1913
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
Rite of Spring - 1913
Jose Limon
Alwin Nikolais
21. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Lion King - 1998
August Bournonville
Mary Wigman
22. 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
Arthur Mitchell
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Jean Jacques Rousseau
23. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Jose Limon
Avant-Garde
Rudolph Nureyev
Eleo Pomare
24. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Lion King - 1998
19th Amendment
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Grand Pas de Deux
25. Inspired by Gautier's novel The Story of the Mummy - very complicated - spectacular - successful ballet - Aspica is the daughter - English Lord in sand storm goes into tomb & gets put into an opium dream where he becomes Tahor and saves Aspico from a
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Anton Dolin
19th Amendment
Four Temperaments - 1946
26. 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.
Ivanov
Massine
Foyer de la Danse
Postmodern Dance
27. 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
Savoy Ballroom
Acts of Light - 1981
Petrouchka - 1911
Tensile Involvement - 1953
28. Works to question the complexities of real life
Arthur Saint Leon
Postmodern Dance
Mary Wigman
Les Noces - 1923
29. 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
Acts of Light - 1981
Martha Graham
Paul Taylor
Political Asylum
30. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Nijinska
Busby Berkeley
Acts of Light - 1981
Ballroom Dance
31. Radically new or original
Anton Dolin
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Coralli
Avant-Garde
32. 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
Suzanne Linglor
Paul Taylor
Joffrey Ballet
33. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
New York City Ballet
Katherine Dunham
Shirley Temple
Scheherezade
34. Choreographer of Parade & Three-Cornered hat - known for symphonic ballet - comedy satire - character dancing - and color
Merce Cunningham
Robert Ellis Dunn
Foyer de la Danse
Massine
35. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
HIV+
Coca Chanel
Jean Coralli
Middle Class
36. 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
Foyer de la Danse
Anton Dolin
Fokine
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
37. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Jean Coralli
Petrouchka - 1911
Theophile Gautier
38. 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)
Apollo - 1928
Divertissement
Giselle - 1841
Katherine Dunham
39. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Nijinsky
Imperial Russian Ballet
Busby Berkeley
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
40. 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
Nijinsky
Robert Ellis Dunn
Black Swan Pas de Deux
41. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Postmodern Dance
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Mary Wigman
Rose Adagio
42. Different names but same theater under different political influences
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
American Ballet Theater
Jules Perrot
Jeux - 1913
43. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Divertissement
John Cage
Political Asylum
44. 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
Industrial Revolution
Marie Taglioni
Percussive Movement
Merce Cunningham
45. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Fanny Elssler
Deeply There - 1998
Nijinska
Mikhail Baryshnikov
46. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Arthur Mitchell
La Sylphide - 1832
Anton Dolin
47. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Ted Shawn
Cachucha
Avant-Garde
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
48. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Russian Revolution
Jockey Club
Divertissement
49. 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
John Cage
Arthur Mitchell
Martha Graham
Cleopatre -1909
50. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Isadora Duncan
Jockey Club
Tap Dance
Mikhail Baryshnikov