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1. 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
Gus Solomons Jr
Rudolph Nureyev
Schizophrenia
Political Asylum
2. 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
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Acts of Light - 1981
Hanya Holm
Lindy Hop
3. 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)
Tensile Involvement - 1953
American Ballet Theater
Savoy Ballroom
Giselle - 1841
4. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Scheherezade
Rudolph Nureyev
Percussive Movement
Petrouchka - 1911
5. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Fokine
Alvin Ailey
Agon - 1957
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
6. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Scheherezade
Franco-Prussian War
Lion King - 1998
Postmodern Dance
7. 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.
Leon Bakst
Fall and Recovery
Middle Class
Arthur Saint Leon
8. 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
19th Amendment
Swan Lake - 1895
Ballet Russes
Shirley Temple
9. 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
Industrial Revolution
Nijinska
Anton Dolin
Ivanov
10. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
Jules Perrot
Charles Weidman
John Cage
Choreographers who died of AIDS
11. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Gas-lighting and curtain
Postmodern Dance
New York City Ballet
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
12. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Schizophrenia
Bill T. Jones
Judson Church
Ruby Keeler
13. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
The Dying Swan - 1905
Rose Adagio
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Middle Class
14. 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
Fanny Elssler
Apollo - 1928
Pilobolus
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
15. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Les Noces - 1923
Romantic Era
Leon Bakst
Anna Pavlova
16. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Alwin Nikolais
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
17. Choreographer of Parade & Three-Cornered hat - known for symphonic ballet - comedy satire - character dancing - and color
Political Asylum
Massine
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Les Noces - 1923
18. 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
Ballet Russes
Industrial Revolution
Aureole - 1962
American Ballet Theater
19. 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
Les Noces - 1923
AIDS
The Art of Making Dances
20. 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)
Nicholas Brothers
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Ivanov
AIDS
21. 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)
Doris Humphrey
Arthur Mitchell
John Cage
Russian Revolution
22. 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.)
Mary Wigman
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Lindy Hop
Anna Pavlova
23. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Doris Humphrey
Russian Revolution
The Dying Swan - 1905
Theophile Gautier
24. 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
Divertissement
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Judson Church
Fall and Recovery
25. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Donald McKayle
Carlotta Grisi
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Industrial Revolution
26. 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.
Divertissement
Shirley Temple
Alvin Ailey
Loie Fuller
27. 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
Philip Taglioni
Ballet Russes
Coca Chanel
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
Apollo - 1928
Rudolph Laban
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Donald McKayle
29. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Grand Pas de Deux
Jeux - 1913
Ulysses Dove
Aureole - 1962
30. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jockey Club
New York City Ballet
31. 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
Gus Solomons Jr
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Pablo Picasso
Tensile Involvement - 1953
32. Marius Petipa - 4 fairies for Aurora - did not invite the evil fairy - put a spell on Aurora @ 16 she would prick her finger on a spindle & fall asleep for 100 years - End of Act I pricks her finger - Act III is the wedding (divertissement - Grand Pa
Loie Fuller
Dance Theater of Harlem
Tchaikovsky
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
33. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Arthur Mitchell
Joffrey Ballet
Merce Cunningham
Fall and Recovery
34. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Twyla Tharp
Tchaikovsky
Talley Beatty
Black Swan Pas de Deux
35. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Mary Wigman
Judson Church
Imperial Russian Ballet
The Nutcracker - 1892
36. 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
Parade - 1917
Rose Adagio
Swan Lake - 1895
Pelvic contraction and release
37. Radically new or original
Charles Weidman
Stravinsky
Debussy
Avant-Garde
38. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Diaghilev
Judson Church
39. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
Ivanov
Busby Berkeley
Prince of Wales
19th Amendment
40. 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
Swan Lake - 1895
Schizophrenia
Jean Coralli
AIDS
41. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Tchaikovsky
August Bournonville
Romantic Era
Stravinsky
42. 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
Petrouchka - 1911
Tsar
Franco-Prussian War
Savoy Ballroom
43. 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
Carlotta Grisi
Avant-Garde
Katherine Dunham
Lincoln Kirstein
44. 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
Postmodern Dance
Anna Pavlova
Still/Here - 1994
45. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Jean Coralli
Paul Taylor
Alvin Ailey
Choreographers who died of AIDS
46. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Petrouchka - 1911
Shirley Temple
Bill T. Jones
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
47. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
Alvin Ailey
The Art of Making Dances
Grand Pas de Deux
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
48. 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
Jitterbug
Nijinsky
Massine
Anton Dolin
49. 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.
Tchaikovsky
Robert le Diable
Marius Petipa
Franco-Prussian War
50. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Romantic Era
Diaghilev
Petipa Styles of Movement
Ted Shawn