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1. 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
The Nutcracker - 1892
Bill T. Jones
Buddy Dean Show
Aureole - 1962
2. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Massine
Tap Dance
Jeux - 1913
Louis Horst
3. 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
Bill T. Jones
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Theophile Gautier
Tap Dance
4. Teacher in Merce's studio Who is remembered for creating a competitive environment filled w/ experimentation for new dance styles
Coca Chanel
AIDS
Robert Ellis Dunn
Hip-hop
5. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Scheherezade
August Bournonville
Tchaikovsky
Jean Jacques Rousseau
6. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Pablo Picasso
Arthur Mitchell
Doris Humphrey
Industrial Revolution
7. 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
Political Asylum
Jose Limon
Parade - 1917
8. 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
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Schizophrenia
Cleopatre -1909
Foyer de la Danse
9. Music that combines spoken street dialect with cuts (samples) from older records and bears the influences of social politics - male boasting - and comic lyrics carried forward from blues - R&b - soul and rock and roll
Prince of Wales
Hip-hop
Parade - 1917
Suzanne Linglor
10. 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
Fanny Elssler
Marius Petipa
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Percussive Movement
11. HIV - choreographed Still Here - organized survivor workshops
Diaghilev
The Dying Swan - 1905
Bill T. Jones
Nijinsky
12. 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
Agon - 1957
Buddy Dean Show
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Middle Class
13. 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)
Charles Weidman
Giselle - 1841
Tsar
Robert Joffrey
14. 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
Giselle - 1841
Fanny Elssler
New York City Ballet
15. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Romantic Era
Prince of Wales
Africanist Aesthetic
Joffrey Ballet
16. 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.
Coca Chanel
Acts of Light - 1981
Franco-Prussian War
Fanny Elssler
17. Famous for her incredible technique - lightness - and ethereal presence -(1804-1884) -Introduced new costume design (bare neck/shoulders - tutu) -Perfected dancing en pointe -La Sylphide`
Fanny Elssler
Marie Taglioni
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Savoy Ballroom
18. 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
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Ballet Russes
Prince of Wales
Anna Pavlova
19. 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
Tsar
AIDS
Political Asylum
20. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
George Balanchine
Buddy Dean Show
Deeply There - 1998
Harlem
21. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Tsar
Franco-Prussian War
Giselle - 1841
22. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Divertissement
Stravinsky
Duet - 1957
Les Sylphides
23. 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
Political Asylum
Ted Shawn
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Carlotta Grisi
24. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Dance Theater of Harlem
Divertissement
The Nutcracker - 1892
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
25. (1819-1899) -Italian ballerina -Leading role in Giselle -Combined techniques of Taglioni & Elssler -Known for strength & lightness
Doris Humphrey
Ruth St. Denis
Dance Theater of Harlem
Carlotta Grisi
26. 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
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Jose Limon
27. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
Ulysses Dove
Charles Weidman
Rite of Spring - 1913
Dance Theater of Harlem
28. A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
Fokine
AIDS
Milhaud
Mary Wigman
29. 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.
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Loie Fuller
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Ulysses Dove
30. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Judson Church
Foyer de la Danse
The Nutcracker - 1892
Jose Limon
31. Radically new or original
Industrial Revolution
Avant-Garde
Tchaikovsky
Hip-hop
32. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Pilobolus
Coppelia
Marie Taglioni
Ballroom Dance
33. 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
Martha Graham
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Grand Pas de Deux
Robert le Diable
34. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Imperial Russian Ballet
Jeux - 1913
Cleopatre -1909
Donald McKayle
35. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Arthur Saint Leon
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Nijinska
Margaret Sanger
36. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Franco-Prussian War
Agon - 1957
Parade - 1917
Jean Coralli
37. 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
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Harlem
Donald McKayle
Jean Jacques Rousseau
38. 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
Parade - 1917
Buddy Dean Show
Pelvic contraction and release
Donald McKayle
39. Founded the Gus Solomons Company/Dance - whose repertoire consisted of detailed and analytical compositions that were conceived as 'melted architecture' - drawing from experience as an architecture student at MIT
Savoy Ballroom
Isadora Duncan
Pelvic contraction and release
Gus Solomons Jr
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
Deeply There - 1998
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
41. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Suzanne Linglor
George Balanchine
Joffrey Ballet
Robert Joffrey
42. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
August Bournonville
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Fall and Recovery
43. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Pablo Picasso
Tchaikovsky
Lincoln Kirstein
44. Choreographed by Filippino Taglioni and performed by one of the greatest ballerinas of the 19th century Marie Taglioni. One of the most famous Romantic Ballets. - First true romantic ballet
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
La Sylphide - 1832
Twyla Tharp
Ivanov
45. 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
Harlem
Judson Church
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Paul Taylor
46. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Carlotta Grisi
Jockey Club
Fokine
47. 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
American Ballet Theater
Ruby Keeler
Louis Horst
AIDS
48. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Russian Revolution
Katherine Dunham
Industrial Revolution
Stravinsky
49. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Harlem
Les Sylphides
Fanny Elssler
Mary Wigman
50. Was inspired by a cigarette poster featuring the Egyptian goddess Isis to begin investigation Asian art and dance - Founded the Denishawn School of dancing and Related Arts with her husband Ted Shawn in 1915 in Los Angeles - California - Believed tha
Milhaud
Ruth St. Denis
Twyla Tharp
Ted Shawn