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Dance History
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1. 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
Africanist Aesthetic
Hanya Holm
Ruby Keeler
Rudolph Laban
2. Choreography Deeply There
Franco-Prussian War
Bill T. Jones
Joe Goode
Arthur Mitchell
3. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Milhaud
Cachucha
Robert le Diable
Charles Weidman
4. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
New York City Ballet
Dr. Louis Vernon
The Dying Swan - 1905
Ruby Keeler
5. 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
Ulysses Dove
Savoy Ballroom
AIDS
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
6. 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
Savoy Ballroom
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Ted Shawn
Ronald Brown
7. 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.
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Fanny Elssler
Dance Theater of Harlem
Loie Fuller
8. 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
Pablo Picasso
Aureole - 1962
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Jean Jacques Rousseau
9. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Robert le Diable
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Imperial Russian Ballet
Daughter of the Pharaoh
10. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Tap Dance
The Art of Making Dances
Suzanne Linglor
Isadora Duncan
11. 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
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Petrouchka - 1911
Nijinsky
Jose Limon
12. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Twyla Tharp
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Cleopatre -1909
Duet - 1957
13. Broke color barrier - developed stair dance - danced with Shirley Temple - made 'honorary mayor of Harlem' -
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14. 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
Paul Taylor
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
AIDS
Dr. Louis Vernon
15. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Carlotta Grisi
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Lincoln Kirstein
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
16. 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
The Dying Swan - 1905
Apollo - 1928
Donald McKayle
Robert Ellis Dunn
17. Radically new or original
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Nijinska
Dance Theater of Harlem
Avant-Garde
18. 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
Pablo Picasso
Prince of Wales
Nijinsky
Pilobolus
19. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Gas-lighting and curtain
Harlem
Rudolph Nureyev
The Dying Swan - 1905
20. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Political Asylum
Tchaikovsky
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Denishawn
21. 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
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Harlem
Tap Dance
22. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Theophile Gautier
Jules Perrot
Louis Horst
Petipa Styles of Movement
23. 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
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Tap Dance
Jockey Club
Hip-hop
24. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Jitterbug
Agon - 1957
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Suzanne Linglor
25. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Russian Revolution
Ballroom Dance
Dance Theater of Harlem
Cleopatre -1909
26. Was listed as the choreographer because He was widely respected - was known Perrot (more gifted) was collaborating with him; Choreographed the corps for Giselle
Still/Here - 1994
Schizophrenia
Jean Coralli
Hip-hop
27. A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
Cleopatre -1909
Hip-hop
Eleo Pomare
AIDS
28. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Donald McKayle
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Tchaikovsky
29. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Les Noces - 1923
Four Temperaments - 1946
Divertissement
John Cage
30. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Lincoln Kirstein
Ballroom Dance
Tsar
31. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Parade - 1917
Ulysses Dove
Robert Joffrey
Stravinsky
32. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Stravinsky
Political Asylum
Jockey Club
Africanist Aesthetic
33. 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.
Fokine
Lindy Hop
Franco-Prussian War
Jean Baptiste Lande
34. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Shirley Temple
Merce Cunningham
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Rite of Spring - 1913
35. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Middle Class
Mikhail Baryshnikov
New York City Ballet
Ballroom Dance
36. 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.
Jean Coralli
Ronald Brown
Loie Fuller
Shirley Temple
37. Sharp powerful movement; angle
Garth Fagan
Percussive Movement
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Buddy Dean Show
38. 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.
Foyer de la Danse
The Art of Making Dances
Deeply There - 1998
Charles Didelot
39. 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
Nicholas Brothers
The Art of Making Dances
Mary Wigman
American Ballet Theater
40. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Charles Weidman
Divertissement
Industrial Revolution
Still/Here - 1994
41. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Duet - 1957
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
42. 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
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Jean Baptiste Lande
Middle Class
43. 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
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Mary Wigman
Middle Class
Dr. Louis Vernon
44. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
Pelvic contraction and release
Acts of Light - 1981
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Leon Bakst
45. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Ulysses Dove
Petipa Styles of Movement
Massine
The Art of Making Dances
46. 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
Hip-hop
Denishawn
Jitterbug
Katherine Dunham
47. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Fokine
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Les Sylphides
Milhaud
48. 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
Louis Horst
Savoy Ballroom
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Bill T. Jones
49. 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
Tsar
Margaret Sanger
Lion King - 1998
HIV+
50. Designer. Influenced by Greek and Asian art. Costumes and sets full of bold colors. Decorative motifs that employed perspective painting. Successful with ballet. 'sophisticated eclecticism'. Teacher.
Nijinska
Leon Bakst
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Jeux - 1913