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Gender roles associated with 19th century
ballet
women perceived as innocent, fragile, and essentially
beyond sexual
TERM 2
Characteristics that make a dance a
ballet
DEFINITION 2
ethereal lifted quality toward the heavensusually tells a story
or has a central themeunified scenery, music, and plot
TERM 3
Founder of the Ballet Russe
DEFINITION 3
Sergei Diaghilev
TERM 4
Two important dancers with the Ballet Russe
DEFINITION 4
Anna PavlovaVaslav Nijinksky
TERM 5
Two important choreographers with the ballet
Russe
DEFINITION 5
Leonid MassineGeorgi Balanchivadze
Describe what was unique or different about
Nijinskys Afternoon of a Faun
Story is more sexual than most of the timeSharp angles,
particularly in the handsTurned in feet and legs
TERM 7
Balanchines contributions to ballet
DEFINITION 7
Introduced turned in legs, protruding hips, angled wrists and
elbows. He also created the concept that the dance should
be related to the music rather than a plot
TERM 8
Two famous Balanchine ballerinas
DEFINITION 8
Patricia McBrideMerril Ashley
TERM 9
Name three dance companies that follow the
Balanchine legacy
DEFINITION 9
Pennsylvania BalletBallet TheatreLondon Ballet
TERM 10
Founder of the PA Ballet
DEFINITION 10
Barbara Weisberge
Founder of the Dance Theater of Harlem
Arthur Mitchell
TERM 12
Mission of the Joffrey Ballet
DEFINITION 12
revive international master works of the 20th century from
Ballet Russe to present
TERM 13
The founder of a popular form of exercise
based on modern scientific principles that
influenced many early modern dancers.
DEFINITION 13
Francois Delsarte
TERM 14
What the above person said: Grace is
DEFINITION 14
Grace is the efficiency of movement
TERM 15
Three social trends that influenced the
beginning of modern dance.
DEFINITION 15
women's movementgreek revivalart nouveau
The founding mothers of modern dance.
Isadora DuncanLoie FullerRuth St. Denis
TERM 17
Two contributions Loie Fuller made to the art
of performing dance.
DEFINITION 17
Darkened theatersprojected stage light
TERM 18
What Duncan thought motivated dance and
what great art influenced her.
DEFINITION 18
- dance is motivated by emotion and must be expressed with
the instrument of the entire human body- inspired by
Delsarte and Botticelli
TERM 19
One culture that Ruth St. Denis researched
for her dances
DEFINITION 19
Far East; Egypt
TERM 20
he name and founders of the first school of
modern dance
DEFINITION 20
Denishawn; Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn
Name two famous pupils of this school
Martha GrahamDorris Humphrey
TERM 22
Principles associated with Doris Humphrey
and what she felt was the full potential of the
art form, and her most famous pupil.
DEFINITION 22
pure dance is related to formall patterns of movement consist of
opposition, succession, unisongroup dance is like a symphony and
it is the full potential of the art formmovement occurs between
falling and recovery, the in breath and the out breath, between
balance and loss of balanceQualities of movement are sharp
accents, sustained flow, and restJose Limon
TERM 23
Name two dances choreographed by Jose
Limon
DEFINITION 23
Moors PavaneChoreographic Offering
