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Dance History
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1. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Tchaikovsky
HIV+
New York City Ballet
2. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Coca Chanel
Fall and Recovery
Ivanov
Cleopatre -1909
3. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Stravinsky
Katherine Dunham
Ruby Keeler
Jitterbug
4. Works to question the complexities of real life
Robert Joffrey
Merce Cunningham
19th Amendment
Postmodern Dance
5. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Rudolph Laban
Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Prince of Wales
6. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
Jean Coralli
Katherine Dunham
Anton Dolin
Black Swan Pas de Deux
7. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Nijinsky
Philip Taglioni
Martha Graham
Political Asylum
8. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Divertissement
Jules Perrot
Ballroom Dance
Garth Fagan
9. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Jean Coralli
Foyer de la Danse
Rose Adagio
Shirley Temple
10. 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
Rose Adagio
Nijinska
Giselle - 1841
11. 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
Mary Wigman
Duet - 1957
Jules Perrot
Jean Jacques Rousseau
12. 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
Theophile Gautier
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Lion King - 1998
13. 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
Postmodern Dance
Middle Class
Marius Petipa
Ruth St. Denis
14. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
Arthur Mitchell
Marius Petipa
Franco-Prussian War
Ronald Brown
15. 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
Robert Ellis Dunn
Africanist Aesthetic
Massine
Dance Theater of Harlem
16. Different names but same theater under different political influences
Acts of Light - 1981
Jeux - 1913
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Prince of Wales
17. 1896-1976 - American - Choreographer - Developed 1930's film fantasy with his daredevil and genius dance design - developed the stage style musical film into a more involved multi-shot fantasy film style with overhead shots - use of tiered set desig
Tsar
Coppelia
Deeply There - 1998
Busby Berkeley
18. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Ballroom Dance
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Jules Perrot
Twyla Tharp
19. 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
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Ballet Russes
Martha Graham
Fanny Elssler
20. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Robert Joffrey
Robert Ellis Dunn
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Scheherezade
21. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Imperial Russian Ballet
Scheherezade
Rose Adagio
Acts of Light - 1981
22. 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
Scheherezade
Robert Joffrey
Nijinska
Hip-hop
23. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Lindy Hop
Tap Dance
Russian Revolution
Bill T. Jones
24. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
Louis Horst
19th Amendment
Schizophrenia
Anna Pavlova
25. 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
Suzanne Linglor
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Buddy Dean Show
Hip-hop
26. Petipa & Tchaikovsky - was not successful at the time it came out - no trace of sensible dramatic action
Tchaikovsky
Fokine
Foyer de la Danse
The Nutcracker - 1892
27. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Theophile Gautier
Fokine
Jitterbug
Bill T. Jones
28. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Coppelia
Scheherezade
Tchaikovsky
New York City Ballet
29. 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
Postmodern Dance
Martha Graham
Shirley Temple
Le Train Bleu - 1924
30. 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
Cleopatre -1909
La Sylphide - 1832
Hanya Holm
American Ballet Theater
31. 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
Eleo Pomare
Alwin Nikolais
HIV+
Parade - 1917
32. A signature piece of Taylor's in which he and his pianist remain motionless for the duration of the music-less score by John Cage.
Duet - 1957
HIV+
Jules Perrot
Postmodern Dance
33. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Acts of Light - 1981
Parade - 1917
Rudolph Nureyev
Ruby Keeler
34. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Harlem
Rite of Spring - 1913
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Rudolph Nureyev
35. 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
Marie Taglioni
Pablo Picasso
Nicholas Brothers
Eleo Pomare
36. 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
Tsar
Agon - 1957
Ruby Keeler
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
37. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Massine
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Lincoln Kirstein
Grand Pas de Deux
38. 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
Suzanne Linglor
Rose Adagio
Loie Fuller
39. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
The Art of Making Dances
Pilobolus
Nicholas Brothers
Garth Fagan
40. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
Paul Taylor
Suzanne Linglor
Pelvic contraction and release
Tchaikovsky
41. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Duet - 1957
Louis Horst
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Aureole - 1962
42. 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
Petipa Styles of Movement
Schizophrenia
Charles Didelot
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
43. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Joe Goode
Leon Bakst
Deeply There - 1998
Ruth St. Denis
44. 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
Talley Beatty
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
45. HIV - choreographed Still Here - organized survivor workshops
Fokine
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Bill T. Jones
The Art of Making Dances
46. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Agon - 1957
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Jules Perrot
Judson Church
47. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Fokine
Lion King - 1998
Jitterbug
Jeux - 1913
48. Reform Russian Ballet - choreographed Dying Swan 1905 for Anna Povlova (2 minutes long) - accused of being influenced by Isadora Duncan - teacher & choreographer rather than a refined dancer
Savoy Ballroom
The Nutcracker - 1892
Rose Adagio
Fokine
49. 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
Alwin Nikolais
Political Asylum
Hanya Holm
50. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Percussive Movement
Scheherezade
The Nutcracker - 1892