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- was 1917, ballet had been for the czar, ballet russe could not go back to Russia.
Russian stars not allowed to leave Russia, kgb would travel with them so they would not
flee from the soviet union, communism rises |
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-Famous ballerina, toured around world. own company, famous portraying birds, insects,
plants. Brought ballet to common person. Was in Ballet Russe. |
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| -choreographed by Michel Fokine. |
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- was avante guard, 5 great choreographers Fokine, Nijinsky, Massine, Nijinska,
Balanchine. Left Russia went to Paris. Diaghilev director. Permanent company. |
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- head of the ballet russe. Collaboration of great artists, launched careers of 5 great
choreographers. |
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| - another visual artist who worked with Diaghilev, designed Afternoon of a Faun |
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| - worked with Diaghilev to make sets and costumes. Avant gard artist. |
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- choreographer of ballet russe. Discovered by Diaghilev.
Dying Swan 1905
Les Sylphides 1908 – no plot, abstract ballet
Cleopatre 1909
Firebird 1910
Scheherazade 1910
Petrouchka 1911
Le Spectre de la Rose 1911 |
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| Fokine's 5 major principles |
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-To create new forms of movement matching the theme, movement not pantomime, all
expression be through movement, entire body should used, entire group should be used to
develop plot and theme, equal cooperation with all arts, unified numbers |
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| - was an abstract ballet, done by Fokine, had not plot. Music by Chopin. |
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-Nijinsky dances as a golden slave. Arabian tale about marital infidelity. He is favored
slave. He is killed by the sultan. |
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-narrative, commoner wants to have sex with her. Says she will have sex with him if the
next morning he is killed. |
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-choreographed by Fokine. Music by Stavinsky, idea comes from Stravinsky. Piano attacked
by symphony and piano trying to be heard. Is a puppet who gets kicked around. |
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-Nijinsky started it, played the spirit of the rose. Based on a poem by Gauttier. Men and
women do the same movements. Choreographed by Fokine. |
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-Was the star of Le Spectre de la Rose, famous for leaping, had a short career because he
got Schizophrenia, jeux, rite of spring |
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-Choreographed by Nijinsky, sexual tension, masterbation, half-man/half-faun, had bad
press because the faun humps the scarf. Indecent. |
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| - composer of Afternoon of a Faune |
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| -About a type of tennis game, a three way flirtation. Means game. |
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-Sacrificing a virgin to the goddess for a good harvest by dancing to death. Nijinsky
choreographed it. Straight riot during first performance. Pandimonium broke out. |
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Stravinsky wrote the music for Rite of Spring, worked with the Ballet Russe and
Ballanchine |
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| - defecting from Russia, worked for the Joffrey ballet, died of aids |
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- when someone defected from Russia, they had to ask for politcal asylum from the other
country so they could stay there. Only granted if you can prove the country you come from
is denying your freedom |
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- head of the Joffrey Ballet, died of aids. Got Nuriev to reconstruct the choreography
that Nijinsky started |
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| -headed by Joffrey, did reconstruction of Nijinsky's choreography |
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| -Choreographed Parade and Three Cornered Hat and right of spring. Influenced by Spanish dance |
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| -Costumes and sets done by Picasso, Satie did the music. Sounds like a typewriter. |
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-Picasso also did the set, goverener tries to make a pass at another man's wife so he
goes to jail. |
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-1st female ballet choreographer of 20th century, sister of Nijinsky, choreographed for
ballet russe. Sleeping Beauty, Les Noces and Le Train Blue. |
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-1923 Nijinska choreographed, sets done by Goncharova. About old Russian marriage rights.
Stravinsky was the composer. |
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-1924 Nijinska choreographed, influenced by American jazz, based a character on the
prince of wales who loved golf, and another girl who liked playing tennis, two couples
who meet eachother and flirt with other persons partner. Egyptian style dancing. |
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| -Lead dancer of Le Train Bleu, swimmer and good at acrobatics |
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| -designer who patented a color pink, her designs were used in Le Train Bleu |
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-Is a golf player in Le Train Bleu, hottest bachelor at the time in Europe, dethroned
himself |
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| -Her character is based on a tennis player, from oakland |
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| - composer for Le Train Bleu |
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-Choreographer who brought abstract ballet to the common Americans, thought if u put 2
dancers on stage u didn't need narrative because the relationship was already there.
Discovered by Diagliev. Brings black people on stage. Hired Arthur Mitchell.four temperaments, apollo, agon, |
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-1928 by Balanchine while in the Ballet Russe about the birth of Apollo and his
interactions with 3 muses |
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| -No sets, people were dressed in costumes. Agon means competition in greek |
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- Balanchine choreographed, example of abstract ballet, music Hindemith. Melancholic,
Sanguinic, phleghmitec, choleric |
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-racist conflict, juxtaposition, used in 4 temperaments, choreographed by Ballanshine.
Pelvis offcenter. Ephesim=power. Vitality, cool, detached, improvisation intensified,
lowered to the ground |
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| - invited Balanchine to come to the country, “the american Diagilev”, formed NYC ballet |
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| New York City Ballet (NYCB) |
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| - Ballanshine main choreographer |
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- first black dancer to get hired by a large company, NY City Ballet, Ballanshine, opened
dance theater of Harlem |
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| - after MLK got killed he started a black dance school, Arthur Mitchell |
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| American Ballet Theater (ABT) |
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- one of the two major ballet companies in the country, very eclectic, Barishnikov worked
with them, European and african |
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-broke away from traditional dance and traditional womens roles, danced in Russia, danced
freely, showgirl, didn't wear a corset, |
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- another pioneer of modern dance, would take all this silk and have lights come up so
she can make all theses images like butterflies and fire, great light and costume design
gal, turn of 20th century. |
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- integrated mysticism and spirituality, major modern dance pioneer, was a show girl, loved to incorporate other cultures
married Ted Shawn |
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| - husband of Ruth St. Denis and founder of Denishawn |
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| -school and company, left same time as Ballet Russe |
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| 19th Constitutional Amendment vote |
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| -gave women the right to vote 1920, civil rights |
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-Got information out about birth control, her husband smuggled diaphragms from Canada.
She fled to france because she was going to be imprisoned for mailing out BC pamphlets |
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| - Grahams musical director and lover, worked for denishawn and left |
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| -experiemental dancer, choreographer, movements come from unconscious state, contractions, falls, suspensions, |
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- choreographed by Martha Graham, saw a good use of pelvic contraction and Release,
influenced from the joy she had when she moved to sunny santa Barbara |
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| -Margaret H Dubbler is the reason we have dance classes at the university |
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| Pelvic contraction and release |
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| -starts percussive movement, used throughout Martha grahams dances |
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| - stops, sharply, brought in by Martha graham |
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- technique was based on fall and recovery, wrote the art of making dances, left
danishawn and started her own dance company |
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- the art between balance and imbalance, extension right before you fall, metaphor for
death and rebirth, pull of gravity |
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| - written in 1959 by Doris Humphrey, focused on the art of fall and recovery |
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| -Doris' dance partner, left Denishawn |
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| -Doris Humphrey, star dancer of Protige, wanted dancers to see the glory and power of human spirit, every gesture had to have a clear motivation |
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-German Modern dance choreographer, worker for Hitler and fired, Developed Laban notation
and dance |
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-student of Laban, German modern dancer, space was forced to be used, choreographed choir
and Olympics in Germany |
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| -Wigman's student who came to US to start her own dance company |
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-Was black, choreographed Revelations. Allowed other black choreographers to put on shows
so they could show their work, combines elements of modern jazz and African dancing. Died
of aids |
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- left Martha grahams company, avant garde choreographer, choreographed pieces where
people would sit on stage for 4 minutes. aureole |
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| -Cutting edge, breaking the tradition |
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- choreographed by paul taylor, avant garde concert, done in 1962 post modern dance, very
lyrical |
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- choreographer, avant garde, worked with john cage, didn't feel like dance had to have a
message or a story, wanted audience to interpret the dances for themselves time |
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| - avant guard, musician, composer, worked with Cunningham |
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- was invited by John cage to work at Merce Cunninghams studio and teach choreography,
started Judson Church |
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-1970's drove away from narrative, did not have to be technically strong, person walking
on the wall of a building, era of experiementalism, used in Judson church group |
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| - Baptist church in NY where artists and dancers performed avant garde |
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| - eccentric modern dance choreographer, brought into choreograph by Baryshnikov, eccentric |
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| -1st puppeteer, liked extending beyond human body, motion spoke of emotion |
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| -by Nikolais, elastic apparatus, puppet movements |
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company of dancers and gymnasts, comes into being in the 1960's choreograph collectively, lived on a farm together,
intertwined bodies |
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| -by Pilobolus, 6 people, like a chicken fight |
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| -Takes ten years to die after getting it. Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
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-Brought a return to narrative, Acquired Immune Deficiency, many male dancers get sick or
die, 22 mil people die, lots of African Americans, 1 mil people living in US with AIDS |
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| Choreographers who died from AIDS |
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| -Robert Joffrey, Alvin Ailey, Christopher Gillis, Rudolph Nureyev, Ulysses Dove |
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-Was black had a jewish lover, is HIV+ but is still alive, his partner Arne Zane died of
aids, survivor workshops, chor. stil/here |
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- choreographed by Bill Jones, about the survivor workshops and using the movements to
respond to the Aids epidemic, “was victim's art and wouldn't be evaluated truly” |
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| -Choreographed Deeply There |
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- about a community coming to grips with someone dying of aids, brought back narrative,
Joe Goode distracts little boy who wonders where his dead friend is |
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-dancer in La Spectre de la Rose, principal dancer of American ballet theater, artistic
director, defected from Russia, political asylum |
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| - choreographer of the lion king |
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| choreographed by Garth Fagan |
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- was the Belgium choreographer who does it based on movements one must do, like if
someone throws something at you you have to dodge it or catch it. All dancers dress the
same and did the same movements. Instinctual movement. |
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| - romantic dance, courtship, Astair and Rogers, social dance, couples, waltz |
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- was in harlem during the harlem renaissance, the lindy hop started there, from the day
they opened the Savoy Ballroom was integrated, smooth movement |
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| -tons of people came, even whites |
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-swing, dance that came out of black community, fast movements people could add their own
personal touch, spread to whites, lindy hop changed to jitterbug=more jerky |
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-started playing black music on his show, segregation of blacks and whites, teenagers
dancing |
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-choreographer that made dances with tons of girls, filmed them with overhead shots,
place camera above, showed designs and dancing, White violins lined with neon |
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| -starred in berkely's movies |
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| Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers |
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| -danced ballroom, romantic movies, one take |
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| -truly American art form, used in berkely's film, Sammy jr. was a child tap dancer |
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| -tap dancers in movies, black |
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| Bill “Bojangles” Robinson |
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| -rare example, white and black at different ages, black dancer, tapped with Shirley temple |
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| extremely good female tap dancer |
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| played scarecrow in wiz of oz |
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