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1. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Still/Here - 1994
Stravinsky
Philip Taglioni
Tsar
2. 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
Apollo - 1928
Loie Fuller
HIV+
Swan Lake - 1895
3. Inspired by afro-carribean movement and anthropolgy - dancer - choreographer - anthropologist - teacher - and writer; founded Ballet Negro; 20th century
Les Sylphides
Fanny Elssler
Katherine Dunham
John Cage
4. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
John Cage
Agon - 1957
Gus Solomons Jr
5. 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
Lincoln Kirstein
Percussive Movement
Ted Shawn
Alwin Nikolais
6. 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
Busby Berkeley
Apollo - 1928
Middle Class
Mikhail Baryshnikov
7. Broadway production choreographed by Garth Fagan; eventually turned into an award winning family film
Lion King - 1998
Ruby Keeler
Martha Graham
Russian Revolution
8. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
Avant-Garde
Anton Dolin
Busby Berkeley
Jean Coralli
9. United States dancer and choreographer (born in Russia) noted for his abstract and formal works (1904-1983); Apollo and Agon
George Balanchine
Nijinsky
Charles Weidman
Parade - 1917
10. 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
Massine
Postmodern Dance
Hanya Holm
11. 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
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Harlem
Deeply There - 1998
Buddy Dean Show
12. Choreography Deeply There
Still/Here - 1994
American Ballet Theater
Joe Goode
Jockey Club
13. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Africanist Aesthetic
Lincoln Kirstein
Fall and Recovery
Jose Limon
14. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a woman who comes home from a ball and puts a rose on a table - falls asleep and dances with the spirit of the rose - the rose jumps out the window; most famous jump in dance history
Talley Beatty
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Black Swan Pas de Deux
15. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Busby Berkeley
Fall and Recovery
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Cachucha
16. Was listed as the choreographer because He was widely respected - was known Perrot (more gifted) was collaborating with him; Choreographed the corps for Giselle
Stravinsky
Jean Coralli
Jean Baptiste Lande
Lincoln Kirstein
17. 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
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Doris Humphrey
La Sylphide - 1832
Ruby Keeler
18. 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.
Foyer de la Danse
Mary Wigman
Parade - 1917
Jean Coralli
19. 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
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Petrouchka - 1911
Rudolph Laban
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
20. Created the role of Swanilda at age 16 - she died from a fever @ age 17
Imperial Russian Ballet
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Rudolph Laban
Mikhail Baryshnikov
21. Choreographer of Coppelia - died the year of the ballet from exhaustion - discovered Bozzacchi
George Balanchine
Arthur Saint Leon
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Daughter of the Pharaoh
22. 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
Deeply There - 1998
HIV+
Nijinsky
Merce Cunningham
23. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Hip-hop
Martha Graham
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Judson Church
24. 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
Anton Dolin
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Gus Solomons Jr
25. Associated with Danish-style ballet; equal roles for male and female dancers
Ivanov
Imperial Russian Ballet
August Bournonville
Isadora Duncan
26. 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.
Agon - 1957
Loie Fuller
Anton Dolin
Harlem
27. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Rite of Spring - 1913
Swan Lake - 1895
Acts of Light - 1981
Jean Baptiste Lande
28. Famous for her incredible technique - lightness - and ethereal presence -(1804-1884) -Introduced new costume design (bare neck/shoulders - tutu) -Perfected dancing en pointe -La Sylphide`
19th Amendment
Marie Taglioni
Black Swan Pas de Deux
Deeply There - 1998
29. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
Arthur Mitchell
19th Amendment
Suzanne Linglor
Loie Fuller
30. Danced in - - raw emotion - stark - harsh - disturbing - medieval themes - dance with masks - really started working with time - space - and energy - taught Hanya Holm
Mary Wigman
Hip-hop
Joffrey Ballet
Ronald Brown
31. Nijinsky choreographed - means 'games' - about a trio (2 women - 1 man) - relief sexual tension through tennis
Jean Baptiste Lande
Jeux - 1913
Duet - 1957
Robert Joffrey
32. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Schizophrenia
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Les Noces - 1923
Robert Joffrey
33. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Hip-hop
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Russian Revolution
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
34. 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
Arthur Saint Leon
Savoy Ballroom
La Sylphide - 1832
35. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Dr. Louis Vernon
Duet - 1957
Stravinsky
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
36. (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
Robert Ellis Dunn
Les Sylphides
Prince of Wales
37. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Ronald Brown
Foyer de la Danse
Robert Joffrey
Milhaud
38. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Ted Shawn
Jules Perrot
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Jean Baptiste Lande
39. 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
Fanny Elssler
Jitterbug
Jean Coralli
Ballet Russes
40. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Romantic Era
Divertissement
Robert Joffrey
Judson Church
41. Choreographer of Robert le Diable (1831) father of marie - Marie was a dancer and always looked like She was floating when dancing
Jeux - 1913
Coca Chanel
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Philip Taglioni
42. Interrupted first flush of success of Coppelia and the included the siege of Paris - which also led to the early death of Giuseppina Bozzacchi - on her 17th birthday - but eventually it became the most-performed ballet at the Opera Garnier.
Franco-Prussian War
Giselle - 1841
Divertissement
Swan Lake - 1895
43. African American social dance in the 1920s; spurred the Jitter Bug
Lion King - 1998
Petipa Styles of Movement
Lindy Hop
Giselle - 1841
44. 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.
Ruth St. Denis
Leon Bakst
Petrouchka - 1911
The Art of Making Dances
45. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Ballroom Dance
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Jose Limon
46. 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.
Rudolph Nureyev
Arthur Saint Leon
Charles Didelot
Milhaud
47. 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
Katherine Dunham
Paul Taylor
Ballet Russes
Pilobolus
48. 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
19th Amendment
Ballet Russes
Diaghilev
Apollo - 1928
49. (1819-1899) -Italian ballerina -Leading role in Giselle -Combined techniques of Taglioni & Elssler -Known for strength & lightness
American Ballet Theater
Divertissement
Carlotta Grisi
Grand Pas de Deux
50. Dance class at Dartmouth taught by Alison Chase - stunts - contortions - balance and leverage - men signed up for the class on a dare
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Donald McKayle
Shirley Temple
Pilobolus