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Dance History
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1. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
Stravinsky
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Pelvic contraction and release
Talley Beatty
2. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Marie Taglioni
Robert Joffrey
Fokine
Cleopatre -1909
3. (1819-1899) -Italian ballerina -Leading role in Giselle -Combined techniques of Taglioni & Elssler -Known for strength & lightness
Joffrey Ballet
The Dying Swan - 1905
Duet - 1957
Carlotta Grisi
4. 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
Percussive Movement
Margaret Sanger
Donald McKayle
Ivanov
5. Arthur Mitchell founder and artistic director -1st black dancer to break color barrier for classical ballet -America's 1st outstanding ballet company of black dancers -started school with Karel Shook -shaped by Balanchine -Dancers known for warmth an
Milhaud
Judson Church
Savoy Ballroom
Dance Theater of Harlem
6. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
Tap Dance
Rite of Spring - 1913
Charles Didelot
George Balanchine
7. Works to question the complexities of real life
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Loie Fuller
Buddy Dean Show
Postmodern Dance
8. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
New York City Ballet
Katherine Dunham
Rudolph Laban
Grand Pas de Deux
9. 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.
Jose Limon
Leon Bakst
Jockey Club
Marie Taglioni
10. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Joe Goode
Russian Revolution
Rudolph Laban
Mary Wigman
11. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Savoy Ballroom
Mary Wigman
Marie Taglioni
Eleo Pomare
12. 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
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Ballet Russes
Romantic Era
13. Choreography Deeply There
Joe Goode
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Coppelia
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
14. 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
The Nutcracker - 1892
Political Asylum
Petipa Styles of Movement
Tap Dance
15. 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
Charles Weidman
Giselle - 1841
Hanya Holm
Arthur Mitchell
16. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
Coca Chanel
Schizophrenia
Katherine Dunham
Anton Dolin
17. 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
Charles Didelot
Buddy Dean Show
Tap Dance
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
18. 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
Talley Beatty
The Nutcracker - 1892
Milhaud
Isadora Duncan
19. A jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s
Donald McKayle
La Sylphide - 1832
Louis Horst
Jitterbug
20. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Twyla Tharp
Suzanne Linglor
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
21. Taglioni's rival -Her dancing was 'warm and passionate' -Dance was earthy - temperamental - fiery - vuluptuous -Labeled Pagan -Danced folk dances - most famous was Cachucha - Spanish using castanet - twists and turns; Known for her flair and theatric
Robert Joffrey
Pilobolus
Fanny Elssler
Tensile Involvement - 1953
22. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Lindy Hop
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Martha Graham
23. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Giselle - 1841
Lion King - 1998
Lincoln Kirstein
Jockey Club
24. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Africanist Aesthetic
Petrouchka - 1911
Parade - 1917
Tensile Involvement - 1953
25. Broke color barrier - developed stair dance - danced with Shirley Temple - made 'honorary mayor of Harlem' -
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26. (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
Deeply There - 1998
Foyer de la Danse
Alvin Ailey
George Balanchine
27. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Fall and Recovery
Petipa Styles of Movement
Petrouchka - 1911
Eleo Pomare
28. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Lindy Hop
Garth Fagan
Diaghilev
Margaret Sanger
29. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Harlem
Nijinsky
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Still/Here - 1994
30. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Grand Pas de Deux
Nijinska
Petipa Styles of Movement
Hip-hop
31. 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
Pilobolus
Gus Solomons Jr
Debussy
Merce Cunningham
32. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Arthur Mitchell
Busby Berkeley
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Agon - 1957
33. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Nijinsky
Coppelia
Arthur Mitchell
34. 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
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Talley Beatty
19th Amendment
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
35. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Diaghilev
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Margaret Sanger
36. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Schizophrenia
Rudolph Nureyev
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Jean Jacques Rousseau
37. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Les Noces - 1923
Fall and Recovery
Joe Goode
Grand Pas de Deux
38. Teacher in Merce's studio Who is remembered for creating a competitive environment filled w/ experimentation for new dance styles
Massine
Milhaud
Robert Ellis Dunn
Jean Jacques Rousseau
39. 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
Four Temperaments - 1946
Schizophrenia
Debussy
Denishawn
40. 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
Pelvic contraction and release
American Ballet Theater
Ted Shawn
Postmodern Dance
41. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Lion King - 1998
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Lincoln Kirstein
Pablo Picasso
42. 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
Jose Limon
Swan Lake - 1895
Jean Baptiste Lande
Massine
43. 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
Grand Pas de Deux
Tchaikovsky
Eleo Pomare
Acts of Light - 1981
44. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Ballroom Dance
Rose Adagio
Alwin Nikolais
Garth Fagan
45. Sharp powerful movement; angle
Scheherezade
Percussive Movement
Arthur Mitchell
Margaret Sanger
46. 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
Acts of Light - 1981
Tchaikovsky
Apollo - 1928
Nicholas Brothers
47. 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
August Bournonville
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Pelvic contraction and release
48. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
Twyla Tharp
Ballroom Dance
Margaret Sanger
Gus Solomons Jr
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
Robert le Diable
Four Temperaments - 1946
Cachucha
Imperial Russian Ballet
50. 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
Giselle - 1841
August Bournonville
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Political Asylum