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Dance History
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1. HIV - choreographed Still Here - organized survivor workshops
Bill T. Jones
Anna Pavlova
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Lion King - 1998
2. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Avant-Garde
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Cachucha
3. 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.
Tchaikovsky
Coppelia
Leon Bakst
Alvin Ailey
4. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Leon Bakst
Joffrey Ballet
Nijinska
Les Sylphides
5. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Jitterbug
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Paul Taylor
Scheherezade
6. Published in London Times 1914 - want to make 'ballet a fully expressive art that mirrored life' - new movement for each dance - no mime (Petipa used so that the audience always understood) - use entire body (to be expressive) - no divertissement (no
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7. 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
Talley Beatty
Ruth St. Denis
La Sylphide - 1832
Charles Didelot
8. Broke color barrier - developed stair dance - danced with Shirley Temple - made 'honorary mayor of Harlem' -
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9. 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
Prince of Wales
Rose Adagio
Dance Theater of Harlem
Rudolph Nureyev
10. 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
Percussive Movement
AIDS
American Ballet Theater
La Sylphide - 1832
11. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Foyer de la Danse
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Busby Berkeley
12. 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`
Katherine Dunham
Swan Lake - 1895
Political Asylum
Marie Taglioni
13. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Jean Baptiste Lande
Tsar
Hanya Holm
Rite of Spring - 1913
14. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
Stravinsky
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Cleopatre -1909
Nijinsky
15. 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)
Scheherezade
Carlotta Grisi
Ballet Russes
Nicholas Brothers
16. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Jeux - 1913
Prince of Wales
Hip-hop
Diaghilev
17. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Still/Here - 1994
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Judson Church
Tchaikovsky
18. 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
Joe Goode
Marius Petipa
Apollo - 1928
Eleo Pomare
19. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Acts of Light - 1981
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Lion King - 1998
Grand Pas de Deux
20. 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
Giselle - 1841
Lincoln Kirstein
Ted Shawn
Savoy Ballroom
21. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
Jitterbug
Katherine Dunham
Suzanne Linglor
Robert le Diable
22. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Ballroom Dance
Tap Dance
Robert Joffrey
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
23. 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
Petipa Styles of Movement
Parade - 1917
New York City Ballet
24. In charge of new Paris Opera; under his direction - Paris Opera made a profit for the only time in its existence; slashed salaries of ballerinas to force them into mistresshood for fellow Jockey's
AIDS
Ballroom Dance
Dr. Louis Vernon
Agon - 1957
25. 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
Scheherezade
Petrouchka - 1911
August Bournonville
26. 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
Lincoln Kirstein
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Still/Here - 1994
Foyer de la Danse
27. 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
Franco-Prussian War
Ruby Keeler
Denishawn
Isadora Duncan
28. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
George Balanchine
Pilobolus
Ruth St. Denis
Leon Bakst
29. 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)
Carlotta Grisi
Pilobolus
Diaghilev
Doris Humphrey
30. Was listed as the choreographer because He was widely respected - was known Perrot (more gifted) was collaborating with him; Choreographed the corps for Giselle
Jean Coralli
Percussive Movement
New York City Ballet
Giselle - 1841
31. 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
Nijinska
Ivanov
Lincoln Kirstein
Leon Bakst
32. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Charles Weidman
Margaret Sanger
Busby Berkeley
Suzanne Linglor
33. 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
Ruby Keeler
Petrouchka - 1911
Tsar
Africanist Aesthetic
34. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Anna Pavlova
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Jean Jacques Rousseau
35. 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
Hanya Holm
Robert le Diable
Gas-lighting and curtain
36. 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
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Dying Swan - 1905
Tensile Involvement - 1953
37. Choreography Deeply There
Alwin Nikolais
Joe Goode
Harlem
Milhaud
38. In 1989 - became the first African American to lead a major national political party when He was elected chairman of the Democratic Party.
The Art of Making Dances
Deeply There - 1998
Loie Fuller
Ronald Brown
39. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Ivanov
Ballet Russes
Theophile Gautier
40. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Lion King - 1998
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Divertissement
41. 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
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Les Sylphides
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Duet - 1957
42. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Political Asylum
Charles Didelot
Imperial Russian Ballet
43. Studio behind the stage at the Paris Opera which is now used as a rehearsal stage and a reception venue but which was notorious in the 19th century (during the reign of Dr Varon) as the salon where members of the Jockey Club could meet dancers.
Foyer de la Danse
The Nutcracker - 1892
Coca Chanel
Jules Perrot
44. 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.)
Isadora Duncan
Anna Pavlova
The Art of Making Dances
New York City Ballet
45. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
Arthur Mitchell
Ivanov
George Balanchine
Four Temperaments - 1946
46. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Coppelia
19th Amendment
Anna Pavlova
Savoy Ballroom
47. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Theophile Gautier
Milhaud
The Art of Making Dances
Judson Church
48. 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)
Alvin Ailey
New York City Ballet
Giselle - 1841
Les Noces - 1923
49. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Robert le Diable
Lindy Hop
Mary Wigman
Massine
50. Started in NYC by Robert Joffrey - small company - repertoire was eclectic and contemporary - reconstructed works from Diaghilev's Ballets Russes - Financially weak - often folded - moved to LA then chicago
Joffrey Ballet
Louis Horst
La Sylphide - 1832
Political Asylum
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