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Dance History
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1. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Pelvic contraction and release
Ballroom Dance
Debussy
Tsar
2. 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
Theophile Gautier
Donald McKayle
Fokine
Massine
3. 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
Joffrey Ballet
Isadora Duncan
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Cleopatre -1909
4. Modern Dance Choreographer-- mixed media extravaganza's celebrating the electronic age; choreographed Tensile Involvement
Petrouchka - 1911
Four Temperaments - 1946
Alwin Nikolais
Fokine
5. Scene where Odile shows up to the ball & dances with Prince Siegfried - very famous dance
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Scheherezade
Apollo - 1928
Black Swan Pas de Deux
6. 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
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Dance Theater of Harlem
Schizophrenia
7. 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
Denishawn
Lindy Hop
Industrial Revolution
Agon - 1957
8. 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
Jose Limon
Ballet Russes
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Daughter of the Pharaoh
9. Classical - Character - Demi-Character - Mime
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Petipa Styles of Movement
Pablo Picasso
Ruth St. Denis
10. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Garth Fagan
Martha Graham
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Pilobolus
11. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Postmodern Dance
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Bill T. Jones
Katherine Dunham
12. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Africanist Aesthetic
Judson Church
Robert Ellis Dunn
Romantic Era
13. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Joe Goode
Jose Limon
Rite of Spring - 1913
14. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
New York City Ballet
Industrial Revolution
Mary Wigman
Massine
15. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
Hanya Holm
Suzanne Linglor
Loie Fuller
Pelvic contraction and release
16. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Rose Adagio
Still/Here - 1994
Dr. Louis Vernon
Eleo Pomare
17. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
Charles Weidman
Dance Theater of Harlem
Savoy Ballroom
John Cage
18. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Ulysses Dove
The Art of Making Dances
Foyer de la Danse
Cachucha
19. 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
Joffrey Ballet
Hip-hop
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Acts of Light - 1981
20. Human Immunodeficiency Virus - the virus that causes AIDS
Judson Church
Agon - 1957
HIV+
Ronald Brown
21. 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
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Swan Lake - 1895
Rite of Spring - 1913
22. Radically new or original
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Nijinsky
Avant-Garde
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
23. Comedy - has sport movements - about a train taken to the beach where a plane flies over - spoof about Frenchman who wants to be very shallow American
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Deeply There - 1998
Leon Bakst
Le Train Bleu - 1924
24. 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
Tchaikovsky
Lincoln Kirstein
Paul Taylor
Mikhail Baryshnikov
25. 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
Swan Lake - 1895
Joffrey Ballet
Grand Pas de Deux
Donald McKayle
26. The protection granted by a nation to someone who has left his native country as a political refugee.
Russian Revolution
Political Asylum
Charles Weidman
Diaghilev
27. 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
Dr. Louis Vernon
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Rite of Spring - 1913
28. 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.
Jean Baptiste Lande
Duet - 1957
Le Train Bleu - 1924
The Dying Swan - 1905
29. 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
Industrial Revolution
Marie Taglioni
Merce Cunningham
Robert Joffrey
30. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Hip-hop
Ruth St. Denis
Marius Petipa
Rite of Spring - 1913
31. (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
New York City Ballet
Alvin Ailey
Busby Berkeley
Dance Theater of Harlem
32. Child actress could dance and sing very well - was able to keep up with Bill Robinson in tap dancing - was seen as the hope during the Great Depression.
Shirley Temple
Swan Lake - 1895
Fanny Elssler
Lindy Hop
33. 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
Fokine
Hanya Holm
Ted Shawn
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
34. 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
Political Asylum
Afternoon of a Faune - 1912
Ulysses Dove
Margaret Sanger
35. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Loie Fuller
Four Temperaments - 1946
Africanist Aesthetic
Coppelia
36. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Jockey Club
The Art of Making Dances
Hanya Holm
AIDS
37. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
American Ballet Theater
Charles Didelot
Gas-lighting and curtain
38. 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
Fanny Elssler
Debussy
American Ballet Theater
Rudolph Laban
39. Contemporary of Duncan's. Design orientation. Known for manipulation of costumes that would make flowing patterns and dance was non-emotional. Also did light design.
Loie Fuller
Carlotta Grisi
Daughter of the Pharaoh
D-Man in the Water - 1989
40. 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
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Middle Class
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Daughter of the Pharaoh
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
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Baptiste Lande
Apollo - 1928
Talley Beatty
42. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Leon Bakst
Jean Coralli
Schizophrenia
Philip Taglioni
43. 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
Margaret Sanger
Suzanne Linglor
Apollo - 1928
Avant-Garde
44. 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)
Harlem
Ballet Russes
Doris Humphrey
Daughter of the Pharaoh
45. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
August Bournonville
Russian Revolution
Petipa Styles of Movement
Charles Didelot
46. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Arthur Saint Leon
Gas-lighting and curtain
Lincoln Kirstein
47. Nijinsky's sister - choreographer - dancer - became leading dancer and choreographer in diaghliev's company
Rose Adagio
Merce Cunningham
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Nijinska
48. Russian ballet impresario who founded the Russian ballet and later introduced it to the West (1872-1929)
Buddy Dean Show
The Art of Making Dances
Diaghilev
Middle Class
49. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Ronald Brown
Dr. Louis Vernon
Apollo - 1928
Robert Joffrey
50. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Divertissement
Busby Berkeley
Philip Taglioni
Black Swan Pas de Deux