Dance Flashcards
West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof choreographer
Jerome Robbins
Sailor’s dance
hornpipe
Italian dance
Tarantella
Joffrey Ballet’s current home
Chicago
Singin’ in the Rain dancer and choreographer
Gene Kelly
Denishawn Dance school founders
Ted Shawn and Ruth st. Denis
Native Amerian ballerinas from Oklahoma
Maria and Marjorie Tallchief
Vernon Castle’s ballroom dancing partner
Irene (Foote) Castle
Argentine (seductive) dance
Tango
Classic 1948 ballet film
The Red Shoes
Theater Baryshnikov directed from 1980-89
American Ballet Theater
Court dance of Louis XIV
Minuet
Spanish dance with one hand over head
Bolero
Maria Tallchief’s husband
George Balanchine
George Balanchine established this theater
New York City Ballet
Cuban line dance
Conga
Grand Hotel choreographer
Tommy Tune
Defected from the Kirov Ballet in 1961
Rudolph Nureyev
Ballet move bending at the knee
Plié
Spanish dance with castanets
Fandango
Number of classical ballet positions
Five
Tango relative
Mambo
Brazilian dances
Lambada and Samba
Dying Swan ballerina
Anna Pavlova