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Dance History
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1. 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
Jose Limon
Anton Dolin
Robert Joffrey
Savoy Ballroom
2. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Suzanne Linglor
Alwin Nikolais
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Still/Here - 1994
3. Works to question the complexities of real life
Percussive Movement
Grand Pas de Deux
Postmodern Dance
Black Swan Pas de Deux
4. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Gas-lighting and curtain
Hanya Holm
Ted Shawn
5. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Stravinsky
HIV+
La Sylphide - 1832
New York City Ballet
6. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
Ulysses Dove
Margaret Sanger
Ballroom Dance
Ruby Keeler
7. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Mary Wigman
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Ruby Keeler
Robert le Diable
8. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Donald McKayle
Judson Church
Marius Petipa
Arthur Mitchell
9. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Petipa Styles of Movement
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Judson Church
Prince of Wales
10. HIV - choreographed Still Here - organized survivor workshops
Busby Berkeley
Ruby Keeler
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Bill T. Jones
11. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Jitterbug
Nijinska
Hanya Holm
Coca Chanel
12. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Lion King - 1998
Postmodern Dance
Rudolph Nureyev
Cachucha
13. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Stravinsky
Pablo Picasso
Ruby Keeler
14. 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
Charles Didelot
Four Temperaments - 1946
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Tensile Involvement - 1953
15. 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
Tap Dance
Scheherezade
Tchaikovsky
Eleo Pomare
16. 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
Ivanov
Pilobolus
Margaret Sanger
Romantic Era
17. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
Hip-hop
Four Temperaments - 1946
George Balanchine
Franco-Prussian War
18. Sharp powerful movement; angle
Mary Wigman
Percussive Movement
Rudolph Nureyev
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
19. 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
Garth Fagan
Katherine Dunham
Percussive Movement
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
20. French composer; uses harmony to reinforce stasis; Prelude to Afternoon of a Fawn (half man - half goat - simulated masturbation); concert work that became a ballet
Judson Church
Debussy
Ted Shawn
August Bournonville
21. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
La Sylphide - 1832
Grand Pas de Deux
22. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Still/Here - 1994
Rudolph Laban
Les Sylphides
D-Man in the Water - 1989
23. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Rose Adagio
Charles Didelot
Jeux - 1913
24. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Katherine Dunham
25. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
Rite of Spring - 1913
Dr. Louis Vernon
Industrial Revolution
Charles Weidman
26. 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
Dance Theater of Harlem
Anna Pavlova
Debussy
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
Marie Taglioni
Parade - 1917
Twyla Tharp
Charles Didelot
28. Teacher in Merce's studio Who is remembered for creating a competitive environment filled w/ experimentation for new dance styles
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Robert Ellis Dunn
George Balanchine
Divertissement
29. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Tap Dance
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Prince of Wales
Industrial Revolution
30. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Agon - 1957
Arthur Saint Leon
Romantic Era
Prince of Wales
31. 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.
Ruby Keeler
Africanist Aesthetic
Shirley Temple
Foyer de la Danse
32. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Fokine
Fall and Recovery
Buddy Dean Show
Doris Humphrey
33. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Jules Perrot
Cleopatre -1909
Industrial Revolution
Choreographers who died of AIDS
34. Radically new or original
Avant-Garde
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Ted Shawn
Jockey Club
35. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
19th Amendment
Diaghilev
Mikhail Baryshnikov
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
36. 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
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Savoy Ballroom
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Choreographers who died of AIDS
37. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Jitterbug
Nicholas Brothers
Jockey Club
Ivanov
38. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
John Cage
New York City Ballet
Agon - 1957
The Art of Making Dances
39. Was listed as the choreographer because He was widely respected - was known Perrot (more gifted) was collaborating with him; Choreographed the corps for Giselle
Les Noces - 1923
Jean Coralli
Pelvic contraction and release
Black Swan Pas de Deux
40. 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
Lindy Hop
Paul Taylor
HIV+
41. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Jean Baptiste Lande
Pilobolus
Coppelia
Hip-hop
42. 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
Eleo Pomare
The Nutcracker - 1892
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Tsar
43. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
Jose Limon
Coppelia
Hip-hop
Ballroom Dance
44. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Robert Ellis Dunn
Ruby Keeler
Romantic Era
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
45. Composer of Le Train Bleu - influenced by jazz
Avant-Garde
Milhaud
Robert Ellis Dunn
Donald McKayle
46. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Milhaud
Lindy Hop
Parade - 1917
Doris Humphrey
47. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Debussy
Petipa Styles of Movement
Garth Fagan
Busby Berkeley
48. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
Ronald Brown
Agon - 1957
Arthur Mitchell
Paul Taylor
49. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Tchaikovsky
Romantic Era
Rose Adagio
50. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Duet - 1957
Swan Lake - 1895
Lion King - 1998
The Dying Swan - 1905