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Dance History
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1. Concerts organized by Dunn continued here until 1968; concert in 1962 considered to have begun the postmodernist movement
Donald McKayle
Rudolph Nureyev
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Judson Church
2. About a group of friends and neighbors during a final decline of a man
Divertissement
Robert Joffrey
Deeply There - 1998
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
3. Most eligible bachelor - do a wiggle before putting in golf
Alvin Ailey
Aureole - 1962
Prince of Wales
Anton Dolin
4. A diversion or amusement; a short ballet or other entertainment performed between the acts of a play
Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson
Divertissement
Loie Fuller
Doris Humphrey
5. Star male dancer of Ballets Russes; became chief choreographer for one year - 1913 - Afternoon of a Faun - Rite of Spring - and Jeux. Rite caused a riot
Giuseppina Bozzacchi
Garth Fagan
Alvin Ailey
Nijinsky
6. Was inspired by a cigarette poster featuring the Egyptian goddess Isis to begin investigation Asian art and dance - Founded the Denishawn School of dancing and Related Arts with her husband Ted Shawn in 1915 in Los Angeles - California - Believed tha
Cleopatre -1909
Ruth St. Denis
Les Sylphides
Black Swan Pas de Deux
7. Music that combines spoken street dialect with cuts (samples) from older records and bears the influences of social politics - male boasting - and comic lyrics carried forward from blues - R&b - soul and rock and roll
Fokine
Fanny Elssler
Hip-hop
Lincoln Kirstein
8. Performed by fanny elssler in jean corallis le diable - was Spanish and had some obscene gestures - colorful dress worn by elssler
Loie Fuller
Industrial Revolution
Cachucha
Pelvic contraction and release
9. 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.
Coca Chanel
Arthur Saint Leon
Leon Bakst
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
10. Petipa's assistant that takes over - choreographs Snowflakes Act I of the Nutcracker - dies in 1901 - didn't produce anything more of importance except Swan Lake
Ivanov
Agon - 1957
Nicholas Brothers
Postmodern Dance
11. 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
Ruth St. Denis
Deeply There - 1998
Coca Chanel
12. Massine - parable about freedom - Picasso - aesthetic unity
Lincoln Kirstein
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater
Three-Cornered Hat - 1919
Tchaikovsky
13. 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
Agon - 1957
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Fokine
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
14. Pilobolus - human jousting horses
Jules Perrot
Monkshood Farewell - 1974
Milhaud
Philip Taglioni
15. United States choreographer (1930-1988) - reconstructed pieces of ballet russes in America died of aids
Robert Joffrey
Apollo - 1928
Coca Chanel
Louis Horst
16. Sharp powerful movement; angle
Percussive Movement
Doris Humphrey
Prince of Wales
Gus Solomons Jr
17. Fokine - starred Nijinsky - about a sad puppet who wanted his soul to come to life - belonged to evil sorcerer
Ruby Keeler
Fokine
Petrouchka - 1911
Theophile Gautier
18. Choreography Deeply There
Merce Cunningham
Robert le Diable
Marius Petipa
Joe Goode
19. Means 'The Wedding' - arranged Russian Stravinsky wedding
Busby Berkeley
Cachucha
Joffrey Ballet
Les Noces - 1923
20. Choreographed by Filippino Taglioni and performed by one of the greatest ballerinas of the 19th century Marie Taglioni. One of the most famous Romantic Ballets. - First true romantic ballet
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
Twyla Tharp
Harlem
La Sylphide - 1832
21. 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
Ruby Keeler
Foyer de la Danse
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Scheherezade
22. (1819-1899) -Italian ballerina -Leading role in Giselle -Combined techniques of Taglioni & Elssler -Known for strength & lightness
Pablo Picasso
Coppelia
Lincoln Kirstein
Carlotta Grisi
23. 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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24. Choreographed by Fokine - star was Pavlova - composer was Camille Saint Saenz - two minutes long
The Dying Swan - 1905
Daughter of the Pharaoh
Apollo - 1928
Donald McKayle
25. Innovative United States dancer and choreographer (born in 1941)
The Dying Swan - 1905
Twyla Tharp
Robert Ellis Dunn
Denishawn
26. Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom
Ballroom Dance
Jean Baptiste Lande
Rose Adagio
Eleo Pomare
27. Were top musical stars of the '30s; appeared in musicals that were considered old-fashioned when they were made; displaced their characters' sexual desire into fighting with each other
Marie Taglioni
Scheherezade
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Leon Bakst
28. Choreographed 'Lion King'; worked with untrained dancers and combined AFrican and Caribbean with ballet and modern
Ballet Russes
Mary Wigman
Ballroom Dance
Garth Fagan
29. 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)
Tap Dance
Lincoln Kirstein
Nicholas Brothers
Philip Taglioni
30. Based on Bill T. Jones' seminar workshops; swirling with arms out to side - spinning - stomping feet - flying
Ruby Keeler
Suzanne Linglor
Still/Here - 1994
Dr. Louis Vernon
31. 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.
Jitterbug
Loie Fuller
Alwin Nikolais
Choreographers who died of AIDS
32. Capitals of Russia during various times of political influence; Leningrad during Bolsheviks and USSR - return to St. Petersburg pax-USSR
Still/Here - 1994
Nijinska
St. Petersburg to Leningrad to St. Petersburg
Cleopatre -1909
33. Choreographer of Parade & Three-Cornered hat - known for symphonic ballet - comedy satire - character dancing - and color
Hanya Holm
Avant-Garde
Massine
Jean Coralli
34. 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
Arthur Mitchell
Twyla Tharp
Middle Class
Apollo - 1928
35. 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
Pablo Picasso
Charles Weidman
Doris Humphrey
Rite of Spring - 1913
36. 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
D-Man in the Water - 1989
Divertissement
Fanny Elssler
Daughter of the Pharaoh
37. Radically new or original
Tsar
Loie Fuller
Louis Horst
Avant-Garde
38. 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
Tensile Involvement - 1953
American Ballet Theater
Fokine's 5 Major Principles
Cleopatre -1909
39. Embraces conflict - polyrhythmic - pelvis off centered - high affect juxtaposition (intenseness of feeling) - ephebism (power - vitality) - cool (intensity) - improvisation
Africanist Aesthetic
Fall and Recovery
Cleopatre -1909
Foyer de la Danse
40. French cabaret singer who became a famous designer - costumes - color pink (patented)
19th Amendment
HIV+
Coca Chanel
Ivanov
41. 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
Daughter of the Pharaoh
The Dying Swan - 1905
Debussy
Les Noces - 1923
42. About 1815 to 1848 - reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment - YOUR interpretations - religious nature - UNIQUE individual
Ivanov
Harlem
Stravinsky
Romantic Era
43. Choreography is famous for its speed - force and eroticism; died of AIDS at the age of 49
Ulysses Dove
Milhaud
Nicholas Brothers
Cleopatre -1909
44. The revolution that overthrew Russian Czar Nicholas I in 1917. Later established the Bolshevik government under Vladimir Lenin.
Cleopatre -1909
Russian Revolution
Tap Dance
Le Spectre de la Rose - 1911
45. Allowed people to dim lights; allowed for lighting changes; used for special effects in background of plays and dance such as ghosts
Gas-lighting and curtain
Nijinsky
Gus Solomons Jr
Franco-Prussian War
46. Music by Stravinsky - ancient Greek contest debate between forces.
Agon - 1957
Nijinsky
August Bournonville
Savoy Ballroom
47. Performed with New York City Ballet under Balanchine - later founded Dance Theatre of Harlem - first African American principle dancer
Doris Humphrey
Pilobolus
Arthur Mitchell
Coca Chanel
48. Martha Graham explored use of breath to contract & releases the muscles of the pelvis to create a powerful - grounded - percussive - angular dance
Sleeping Beauty - 1921
George Balanchine
Robert le Diable
Pelvic contraction and release
49. 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
Duet - 1957
Talley Beatty
Gas-lighting and curtain
American Ballet Theater
50. In Moscow - very flamboyant & expressive (opposite of Kirov Theater)
Joffrey Ballet
Milhaud
Les Sylphides
Moscow - Bolshoi Theater