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Dance History
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1. 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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2. First book of choreography; published posthumously in 1959
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Debussy
Swan Lake - 1895
The Art of Making Dances
3. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Scheherezade
Garth Fagan
Gus Solomons Jr
Suzanne Linglor
4. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
Nijinsky
Pelvic contraction and release
Foyer de la Danse
Romantic Era
5. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Tchaikovsky
Acts of Light - 1981
Joe Goode
Lion King - 1998
6. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Jitterbug
Fokine
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
7. 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.)
Loie Fuller
Pablo Picasso
Anna Pavlova
Choreographers who died of AIDS
8. Was listed as the choreographer because He was widely respected - was known Perrot (more gifted) was collaborating with him; Choreographed the corps for Giselle
Nijinsky
Jean Coralli
Mary Wigman
Marie Taglioni
9. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Lindy Hop
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Leon Bakst
Buddy Dean Show
10. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Arthur Mitchell
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Suzanne Linglor
Jeux - 1913
11. Different names but same theater under different political influences
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Jean Baptiste Lande
Pilobolus
John Cage
12. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Grand Pas de Deux
Les Sylphides
Gas-lighting and curtain
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
13. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Suzanne Linglor
New York City Ballet
American Ballet Theater
Bill T. Jones
14. 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
Petipa Styles of Movement
Suzanne Linglor
Tap Dance
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
15. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Cachucha
Middle Class
Joe Goode
Arthur Mitchell
16. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Duet - 1957
American Ballet Theater
Jockey Club
Pilobolus
17. Teacher in Merce's studio Who is remembered for creating a competitive environment filled w/ experimentation for new dance styles
Avant-Garde
Robert Ellis Dunn
August Bournonville
Duet - 1957
18. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Isadora Duncan
Jeux - 1913
Arthur Mitchell
Middle Class
19. 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
Donald McKayle
Joe Goode
Fokine
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
20. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Ruth St. Denis
Romantic Era
Joffrey Ballet
Le Train Bleu - 1924
21. 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)
Jules Perrot
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Doris Humphrey
22. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Massine
Tsar
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Judson Church
23. 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
Robert le Diable
Lindy Hop
Gus Solomons Jr
American Ballet Theater
24. 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
Avant-Garde
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Mary Wigman
25. An African American section of New York City. Many A/A writers and artists gathered in Harlem
Aureole - 1962
Harlem
Les Sylphides
Robert Joffrey
26. 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
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Schizophrenia
Denishawn
Hip-hop
27. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Ronald Brown
Martha Graham
Fanny Elssler
New York City Ballet
28. 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
Buddy Dean Show
Garth Fagan
Percussive Movement
Ulysses Dove
29. Russian dancer and choreographer; considered one of greatest male ballet dancers; became artistic director of American Ballet Theatre
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Ballroom Dance
Paul Taylor
Doris Humphrey
30. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
August Bournonville
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Franco-Prussian War
Alwin Nikolais
31. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
Jean Baptiste Lande
Jose Limon
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Romantic Era
32. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
19th Amendment
Scheherezade
Anton Dolin
Jockey Club
33. 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
Savoy Ballroom
HIV+
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Isadora Duncan
34. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
Jeux - 1913
Eleo Pomare
Busby Berkeley
George Balanchine
35. 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
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Arthur Saint Leon
Savoy Ballroom
Fokine
36. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Les Noces - 1923
Hip-hop
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Jose Limon
37. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Alvin Ailey
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Industrial Revolution
Postmodern Dance
38. Petipa & Tchaikovsky - was not successful at the time it came out - no trace of sensible dramatic action
The Nutcracker - 1892
Debussy
Jean Jacques Rousseau
D-Man in the Water - 1989
39. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
American Ballet Theater
Alvin Ailey
Charles Weidman
Parade - 1917
40. 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
Giselle - 1841
Four Temperaments - 1946
Middle Class
August Bournonville
41. Born in NY - raised in Boston - first exposure to dance in 1920 - witness Diaghilev funeral - worked with Balanchine - established NYC ballet - passion for Japenese culture
Les Noces - 1923
Lincoln Kirstein
Bill T. Jones
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
42. 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
Aureole - 1962
Foyer de la Danse
Cleopatre -1909
43. 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
Fall and Recovery
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Rudolph Laban
Franco-Prussian War
44. (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
Anna Pavlova
Duet - 1957
Swan Lake - 1895
Alvin Ailey
45. Considered one of the greatest of African American choreographers - and also bears the titles dancer - educator - and dance company director. After studying under Katherine Dunham and Martha Graham - went on to do solo work and choreograph his own wo
Talley Beatty
Bill T. Jones
Theophile Gautier
Prince of Wales
46. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Jockey Club
Fall and Recovery
Four Temperaments - 1946
47. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Jean Baptiste Lande
Katherine Dunham
Harlem
Pilobolus
48. Works to question the complexities of real life
Postmodern Dance
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Loie Fuller
Anna Pavlova
49. 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
August Bournonville
Busby Berkeley
Loie Fuller
Pablo Picasso
50. 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
Dance Theater of Harlem
Donald McKayle
Louis Horst
Paul Taylor