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1. French for 'big dance for two' - Entrae - Adagio duet - Male solo - Female solo - Coda - plot structure of Petipa
Grand Pas de Deux
Agon - 1957
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Ronald Brown
2. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Coppelia
Gas-lighting and curtain
Katherine Dunham
3. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
August Bournonville
John Cage
Charles Weidman
Pelvic contraction and release
4. 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
Tap Dance
Robert Ellis Dunn
American Ballet Theater
Paul Taylor
5. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Arthur Saint Leon
Pilobolus
Hip-hop
Busby Berkeley
6. 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
Anton Dolin
Joffrey Ballet
AIDS
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
7. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Duet - 1957
Debussy
Robert Joffrey
Gus Solomons Jr
8. 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
Dr. Louis Vernon
Hip-hop
Alvin Ailey
Rite of Spring - 1913
9. Outstanding for the way he combined expressive movements with dance steps; - choreographed the ballet Giselle
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Jules Perrot
Les Noces - 1923
10. Choreographer of Parade & Three-Cornered hat - known for symphonic ballet - comedy satire - character dancing - and color
Tap Dance
Massine
Pilobolus
Harlem
11. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Milhaud
Jean Baptiste Lande
Apollo - 1928
Ulysses Dove
12. 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
Ulysses Dove
19th Amendment
Four Temperaments - 1946
Scheherezade
13. End of ACT I - Aurora partnered with 4 different princes - en pointe a rose is exchanged. Difficult.
Rose Adagio
Charles Didelot
Isadora Duncan
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
14. 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
Petrouchka - 1911
Aureole - 1962
Gus Solomons Jr
Tchaikovsky
15. 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
Katherine Dunham
Leon Bakst
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Rose Adagio
16. Radically new or original
Bill T. Jones
Nijinska
Agon - 1957
Avant-Garde
17. 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
Jeux - 1913
Denishawn
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Romantic Era
18. American composer - 'chance music' - music not expressive or communicative because it says nothing - invented prepared piano
John Cage
The Nutcracker - 1892
Political Asylum
Lion King - 1998
19. 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
Aureole - 1962
Petipa Styles of Movement
Grand Pas de Deux
Ruth St. Denis
20. Fokine - commoner wanted to have sex with Cleopatre - she said yes as long as He was put to dead the next day - she did
The Art of Making Dances
AIDS
Cleopatre -1909
Pilobolus
21. 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
Leon Bakst
Parade - 1917
Aureole - 1962
Dr. Louis Vernon
22. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Shirley Temple
Still/Here - 1994
Aureole - 1962
Africanist Aesthetic
23. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Four Temperaments - 1946
New York City Ballet
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Talley Beatty
24. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
Ruby Keeler
Schizophrenia
George Balanchine
Isadora Duncan
25. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
Gus Solomons Jr
Leon Bakst
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
The Nutcracker - 1892
26. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Robert le Diable
Les Noces - 1923
Katherine Dunham
Percussive Movement
27. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Jean Baptiste Lande
Fall and Recovery
Anna Pavlova
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
28. 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
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Fall and Recovery
Charles Weidman
29. 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
Massine
Paul Taylor
Jockey Club
Percussive Movement
30. 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
Aureole - 1962
Rudolph Laban
Talley Beatty
Divertissement
31. Called the most poetical of ballets of the 20th century. Premiered during first ballet russes season (1909)
Schizophrenia
Coca Chanel
Imperial Russian Ballet
Les Sylphides
32. 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)
19th Amendment
Doris Humphrey
The Dying Swan - 1905
John Cage
33. 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
AIDS
Jeux - 1913
Swan Lake - 1895
D-Man in the Water - 1989
34. A pioneer of modern dance - established importance of the male dancer - created masculine movement style - founded own company in 1947; died of prostate cancer
Philip Taglioni
Robert le Diable
Jose Limon
Anton Dolin
35. 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
Agon - 1957
Milhaud
Ulysses Dove
36. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Tap Dance
Ballroom Dance
Ruby Keeler
37. 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
AIDS
Margaret Sanger
Pablo Picasso
Franco-Prussian War
38. Known particularly for his long associations as musical director with Denishawn and Martha Graham.
Jose Limon
Les Sylphides
Louis Horst
Ronald Brown
39. A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
AIDS
Loie Fuller
Political Asylum
40. 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
Jean Baptiste Lande
Tap Dance
Martha Graham
Jose Limon
41. 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
Schizophrenia
Deeply There - 1998
Joe Goode
John Cage
42. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Industrial Revolution
Ted Shawn
Jockey Club
The Nutcracker - 1892
43. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Marie Taglioni
Talley Beatty
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Romantic Era
44. French composer; uses harmony to reinforce stasis; Prelude to Afternoon of a Fawn (half man - half goat - simulated masturbation); concert work that became a ballet
Debussy
Milhaud
Four Temperaments - 1946
Marie Taglioni
45. 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
Marius Petipa
Divertissement
Nijinsky
46. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Fall and Recovery
Choreographers who died of AIDS
Postmodern Dance
Divertissement
47. 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
Postmodern Dance
Coppelia
Nijinska
48. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Jeux - 1913
Hip-hop
Anton Dolin
Cachucha
49. 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
Romantic Era
Cachucha
Ted Shawn
Russian Revolution
50. A Colombian-American modern dance choreographer known for his politically-charged productions depicting the black experience - notable productions include Missa Luba in 1965 - Blues for the Jungle in 1966 (portraying life in Harlem) - Las Desenamorad
Eleo Pomare
Donald McKayle
Jockey Club
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
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