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Dance History
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1. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies (1840-1893); composed score for Nutcracker - Sleeping Beauty
Tchaikovsky
Les Noces - 1923
Petrouchka - 1911
Rudolph Laban
2. 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
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Stravinsky
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Ballet Russes
3. 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
The Art of Making Dances
Anton Dolin
Twyla Tharp
4. 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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5. Ballet premeried in 1870 - comic variation of La Sylphide and Giselle. Choreographed by Arthur Saint-Laon
Deeply There - 1998
Bill T. Jones
Coppelia
Nijinska
6. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Garth Fagan
Margaret Sanger
Isadora Duncan
Petipa Styles of Movement
7. 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
Franco-Prussian War
Gas-lighting and curtain
Anton Dolin
Merce Cunningham
8. Works to question the complexities of real life
Paul Taylor
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
HIV+
Postmodern Dance
9. 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
Jean Coralli
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Joffrey Ballet
Mary Wigman
10. Opened in 1948 - artistic director Balanchines. Distinguished choreographers: Tudor - Frederick Ashton - Robbins...Permanent home New York State Theater at Lincoln Center
Pablo Picasso
Duet - 1957
New York City Ballet
Arthur Saint Leon
11. Opera created that incorporated a ballet in the 3rd act called ballet of the nuns
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Robert le Diable
Theophile Gautier
Giselle - 1841
12. 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
American Ballet Theater
Debussy
Africanist Aesthetic
Paul Taylor
13. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Twyla Tharp
Gas-lighting and curtain
Tap Dance
Joffrey Ballet
14. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Nijinsky
Still/Here - 1994
Judson Church
Jean Jacques Rousseau
15. HIV - choreographed Still Here - organized survivor workshops
Arthur Saint Leon
Coppelia
Bill T. Jones
Robert le Diable
16. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Deeply There - 1998
Petipa Styles of Movement
Margaret Sanger
Daughter of the Pharaoh
17. 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
Suzanne Linglor
Aureole - 1962
Bill T. Jones
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
18. 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
Still/Here - 1994
John Cage
Russian Revolution
19. 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
Middle Class
Tap Dance
Talley Beatty
Tchaikovsky
20. Robert Joffrey - 59 - Alvin Ailey - 58 - Christopher Gillis - 42 - Rudolph Nureyev - 54 - Ulysses Dove - 49
Choreographers who died of AIDS
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Lincoln Kirstein
Margaret Sanger
21. Choreographer of Parade & Three-Cornered hat - known for symphonic ballet - comedy satire - character dancing - and color
Swan Lake - 1895
Massine
Buddy Dean Show
Savoy Ballroom
22. 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
Charles Weidman
Buddy Dean Show
Ruby Keeler
Nicholas Brothers
23. Previous member of Denishawn (left late 1920's) - developed a comedic mime aesthetic - shared a school with Humphrey for years - pioneer of modern dance
Lion King - 1998
Charles Weidman
Donald McKayle
Parade - 1917
24. 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
Robert Ellis Dunn
The Sleeping Beauty - 1890
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Busby Berkeley
25. Writer of Giselle - Dance Critic - Wrote against male dancers - Praised ballerinas for their sensuality and beauty - in love with Carlotta Grisi
Shirley Temple
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
Theophile Gautier
Joe Goode
26. 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
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Middle Class
Denishawn
Cleopatre -1909
27. St. Petersburg Ballet School 1738 - Director of Imperial Theater - Official Patronage 1766 & Moscow 1806; - first dancing master that was brought to russia - from france
Margaret Sanger
Percussive Movement
Avant-Garde
Jean Baptiste Lande
28. Major 20th C composer - Three famous ballets The Firebird - Petrushka - The Rite of Spring
Ballet Russes
Africanist Aesthetic
Foyer de la Danse
Stravinsky
29. This is a dynamic way to use the space of the dance floor to a fuller extent
Nicholas Brothers
Industrial Revolution
Fall and Recovery
19th Amendment
30. 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.
Duet - 1957
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jose Limon
31. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
Marie Taglioni
Jean Baptiste Lande
Fall and Recovery
19th Amendment
32. A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
AIDS
Marius Petipa
Deeply There - 1998
Twyla Tharp
33. Nijinsky choreographed - rustic - sacrifice a virgin by making her dance to death
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Rite of Spring - 1913
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
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
Gas-lighting and curtain
Acts of Light - 1981
19th Amendment
Rudolph Nureyev
35. Unsuccessful revival - Ballet Russes lose money
Lion King - 1998
Diaghilev
Jean Baptiste Lande
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
36. Height of Romantic Ballet - Star: Carlotta Grisi - Choreographer: Jules Perrot (Carlotta's lover) & Jean Coralli - Written by: Gautier (Who was in love with Grisi) - Act I (sunlit) - Act II (moonlit)
Tsar
Bill T. Jones
Busby Berkeley
Giselle - 1841
37. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Arthur Mitchell
Russian Revolution
Tensile Involvement - 1953
Africanist Aesthetic
38. Famous tennis player who took ballet (lover in Le Train Bleu)
New York City Ballet
Scheherezade
Deeply There - 1998
Suzanne Linglor
39. Different names but same theater under different political influences
Maryinsky Theater to Kirov Theater
Jean Baptiste Lande
Jules Perrot
Martha Graham
40. Gentlemen's club which indulged in fencing - horses - and mistresses; often took ballerinas with low incomes as mistresses
Ronald Brown
Petrouchka - 1911
Jockey Club
Denishawn
41. (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
Jules Perrot
Alvin Ailey
Loie Fuller
Marie Taglioni
42. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
The Nutcracker - 1892
Agon - 1957
AIDS
Pelvic contraction and release
43. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
HIV+
Debussy
Romantic Era
Leon Bakst
44. 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
Lion King - 1998
Arthur Mitchell
Ted Shawn
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
45. Choreography Deeply There
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Merce Cunningham
Leon Bakst
Joe Goode
46. 1st principal dancer with Royal Ballet - choreographer-in-residence during the second year (1941) of Ballet Theater
Anton Dolin
Joffrey Ballet
Still/Here - 1994
Cleopatre -1909
47. The transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation; industrialization allowed for stable incomes and allowed for centralized support of art in cities
Rudolph Nureyev
Gas-lighting and curtain
Jose Limon
Industrial Revolution
48. 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
Le Train Bleu - 1924
Lion King - 1998
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Ruby Keeler
49. Ballet by Michel Folkine; 1910; based on '1001 nights'
Scheherezade
Coca Chanel
Rite of Spring - 1913
Franco-Prussian War
50. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Donald McKayle
Africanist Aesthetic
Fanny Elssler
Giuseppina Bozzacchi