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Dance History
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1. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
Charles Didelot
John Cage
Coca Chanel
Twyla Tharp
2. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Tap Dance
The Art of Making Dances
Jules Perrot
Busby Berkeley
3. (1822-1910) created the first ballet that would later be classified as classical ballet. He also held the position of Ballet Master in Chief to the Imperial Tsar in 1869. created Don Quixote and La Bayadere and many other works. Though he did not cho
Marius Petipa
Eleo Pomare
Isadora Duncan
The Nutcracker - 1892
4. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
John Cage
Ulysses Dove
Debussy
Le Train Bleu - 1924
5. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Les Sylphides
Robert Ellis Dunn
Prince of Wales
6. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
The Dying Swan - 1905
Jockey Club
Ruth St. Denis
Busby Berkeley
7. 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
Apollo - 1928
Nijinsky
Divertissement
Pilobolus
8. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Joffrey Ballet
Hip-hop
The Dying Swan - 1905
9. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Hanya Holm
Cleopatre -1909
Diaghilev
AIDS
10. Most important figure in Russia in immediately pre-Romantic days. Did much to improve the repertory and teaching. 20 ballets - raised standards. Flying wires - pointe works.
Charles Didelot
Alvin Ailey
Jeux - 1913
Jules Perrot
11. 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
Rose Adagio
Stravinsky
Fanny Elssler
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)
Judson Church
Industrial Revolution
Nicholas Brothers
New York City Ballet
13. Work written at a time when one of Jones' company dancers - Demian Acquavella - nicknamed D-Man - was suffering from AIDS; a celebratory - affectionate work about the company defiantly remaining joyful - loving - productive - and cohesive in the face
Joffrey Ballet
Imperial Russian Ballet
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
D-Man in the Water - 1989
14. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Savoy Ballroom
Donald McKayle
Nijinska
Choreographers who died of AIDS
15. 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
Grand Pas de Deux
Joe Goode
Four Temperaments - 1946
Petipa Styles of Movement
16. 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
Acts of Light - 1981
Theophile Gautier
Lincoln Kirstein
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
17. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Margaret Sanger
Nijinsky
Schizophrenia
18. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Philip Taglioni
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Avant-Garde
Giselle - 1841
19. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
Merce Cunningham
Coca Chanel
Garth Fagan
Jules Perrot
20. 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
Bill T. Jones
Margaret Sanger
Apollo - 1928
Diaghilev
21. 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
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Ruth St. Denis
Isadora Duncan
22. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Diaghilev
Rudolph Nureyev
Nijinska
Agon - 1957
23. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Pelvic contraction and release
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Hip-hop
Loie Fuller
24. 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
Parade - 1917
Marius Petipa
Harlem
Suzanne Linglor
25. 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
Katherine Dunham
Martha Graham
New York City Ballet
26. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Jose Limon
Doris Humphrey
Nicholas Brothers
Grand Pas de Deux
27. Petipa & Tchaikovsky - was not successful at the time it came out - no trace of sensible dramatic action
Talley Beatty
The Nutcracker - 1892
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Marius Petipa
28. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Joffrey Ballet
Petipa Styles of Movement
29. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Still/Here - 1994
Jose Limon
Political Asylum
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
30. 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
Giselle - 1841
Buddy Dean Show
Cachucha
Grand Pas de Deux
31. Student of Mary Wigman. Opened a Wigman school in NYC in 1931 - brought German modern to U.S. but Americanized her technique. Choreographed Broadway musicals- 'Kiss Me Kate' based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew
Hanya Holm
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Robert le Diable
Hip-hop
32. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Anton Dolin
Marius Petipa
Gas-lighting and curtain
Grand Pas de Deux
33. 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.
John Cage
Ruby Keeler
Garth Fagan
Duet - 1957
34. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Agon - 1957
Pilobolus
New York City Ballet
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
35. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Duet - 1957
La Sylphide - 1832
Arthur Mitchell
Robert le Diable
36. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
George Balanchine
Arthur Saint Leon
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Middle Class
37. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
George Balanchine
Twyla Tharp
Coppelia
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
38. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
George Balanchine
Charles Weidman
Schizophrenia
Leon Bakst
39. 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
Gas-lighting and curtain
Jockey Club
Ivanov
Martha Graham
40. 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
Ballet Russes
Tap Dance
Dr. Louis Vernon
Jitterbug
41. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Jean Coralli
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Donald McKayle
Harlem
42. 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
Jockey Club
Denishawn
Fanny Elssler
Savoy Ballroom
43. 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
Cachucha
19th Amendment
Daughter of the Pharaoh
American Ballet Theater
44. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Avant-Garde
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Robert le Diable
45. 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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46. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
August Bournonville
Robert Ellis Dunn
Alvin Ailey
Savoy Ballroom
47. 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
Nijinsky
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Robert Joffrey
Joffrey Ballet
48. 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
Eleo Pomare
Alwin Nikolais
Africanist Aesthetic
Fanny Elssler
49. Sharp powerful movement; angle
Shirley Temple
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Percussive Movement
19th Amendment
50. A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
Fokine
Theophile Gautier
Ulysses Dove
AIDS