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Dance History
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1. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Fanny Elssler
Jose Limon
Dr. Louis Vernon
Jockey Club
2. 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.
Joffrey Ballet
Foyer de la Danse
Charles Weidman
Petrouchka - 1911
3. Star male dancer of Ballets Russes; became chief choreographer for one year - 1913 - Afternoon of a Faun - Rite of Spring - and Jeux. Rite caused a riot
Ruth St. Denis
Katherine Dunham
Nijinsky
Suzanne Linglor
4. 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
Four Temperaments - 1946
Cachucha
Petipa Styles of Movement
Isadora Duncan
5. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Robert le Diable
Rudolph Laban
Alvin Ailey
August Bournonville
6. 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
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Tap Dance
Four Temperaments - 1946
7. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
John Cage
Bill T. Jones
Dr. Louis Vernon
Marius Petipa
8. 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
Paul Taylor
Lion King - 1998
Percussive Movement
Eleo Pomare
9. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Massine
Jean Baptiste Lande
Shirley Temple
Lion King - 1998
10. Choreography Deeply There
Harlem
Joe Goode
Pilobolus
Arthur Mitchell
11. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Lindy Hop
Ballroom Dance
Jean Coralli
Foyer de la Danse
12. 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)
Nicholas Brothers
New York City Ballet
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Leon Bakst
13. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Les Noces - 1923
Anna Pavlova
Coca Chanel
Jose Limon
14. 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
Ronald Brown
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Debussy
Acts of Light - 1981
15. 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
Marie Taglioni
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Jitterbug
16. 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)
Divertissement
Nicholas Brothers
Ted Shawn
Giselle - 1841
17. 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
Parade - 1917
Marius Petipa
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Gus Solomons Jr
18. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Rite of Spring - 1913
Russian Revolution
Aureole - 1962
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
19. A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
AIDS
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Russian Revolution
20. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Stravinsky
Pablo Picasso
Arthur Mitchell
21. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Pablo Picasso
Bill T. Jones
Dr. Louis Vernon
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
22. (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
George Balanchine
Divertissement
Alvin Ailey
Les Noces - 1923
23. 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
Dance Theater of Harlem
Denishawn
Duet - 1957
Massine
24. Actress - singer and tap dancer successful in early musicals...... '42nd Street'
Still/Here - 1994
Rite of Spring - 1913
HIV+
Ruby Keeler
25. Were top musical stars of the '30s; appeared in musicals that were considered old-fashioned when they were made; displaced their characters' sexual desire into fighting with each other
Tchaikovsky
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Ballroom Dance
Coppelia
26. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
Charles Didelot
The Nutcracker - 1892
Twyla Tharp
Ruth St. Denis
27. Peter the Great wants respect from the west and imports fashion and dance from France
Imperial Russian Ballet
Joffrey Ballet
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Apollo - 1928
28. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
Petipa Styles of Movement
Philip Taglioni
Isadora Duncan
Black Swan Pas de Deux
29. 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
Mary Wigman
La Sylphide - 1832
John Cage
Tensile Involvement - 1953
30. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Agon - 1957
The Art of Making Dances
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Deeply There - 1998
31. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
Savoy Ballroom
Katherine Dunham
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Cachucha
32. 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
Rudolph Nureyev
Coca Chanel
Doris Humphrey
Merce Cunningham
33. HIV - choreographed Still Here - organized survivor workshops
Twyla Tharp
Bill T. Jones
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Lincoln Kirstein
34. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Harlem
Petipa Styles of Movement
Busby Berkeley
D-Man in the Water - 1989
35. 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
Tchaikovsky
Romantic Era
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Busby Berkeley
36. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Parade - 1917
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Still/Here - 1994
37. 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
Swan Lake - 1895
Diaghilev
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
38. 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
Buddy Dean Show
Ronald Brown
Coca Chanel
39. 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
Tchaikovsky
Les Sylphides
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Daughter of the Pharaoh
40. Was listed as the choreographer because He was widely respected - was known Perrot (more gifted) was collaborating with him; Choreographed the corps for Giselle
Nicholas Brothers
Jean Coralli
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Paul Taylor
41. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Les Sylphides
Ulysses Dove
Acts of Light - 1981
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
42. 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
Margaret Sanger
Dr. Louis Vernon
Lincoln Kirstein
Cachucha
43. Broke color barrier - developed stair dance - danced with Shirley Temple - made 'honorary mayor of Harlem' -
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44. 1st male dancer to make an impression in United States. Danced with Dane Margo Fontain in the Royal Ballet; died of AIDS
Robert Joffrey
Alwin Nikolais
Rudolph Nureyev
Divertissement
45. 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
Parade - 1917
Schizophrenia
Joffrey Ballet
46. 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.
Gus Solomons Jr
Cleopatre -1909
Leon Bakst
Coppelia
47. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Twyla Tharp
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Loie Fuller
Fall and Recovery
48. 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
Parade - 1917
Aureole - 1962
Ulysses Dove
Robert Ellis Dunn
49. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
Industrial Revolution
HIV+
Merce Cunningham
Isadora Duncan
50. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Theophile Gautier
Aureole - 1962
Carlotta Grisi
Fokine
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