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Loie Fuller

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late 1800s- early 1900s, started as a skirt dancer, known for working with fabrics and light, one of the 3 mothers off modern dance, played with electricity, science and the boundaries of being a woman, associated with symbolism, and futurism
DANCE: “Firedance”

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Isadora Duncan

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late 1800s, known for rejecting the corset, pointe shoes, for bare feet and draped clothes, idealized organic movement, associated with nature, borrowed heavily from the greek sculptures, associated with Dionyso, brought ti all down to the floor

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Ruth St. Denis

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late 1800s- early 1900s, started as a skirt dancer, wanted to created dance not only for male gaze, “Radha”- famous dance of hers that used inspiration from hinduism that was problematic because she sold concepts from another cultural as her own and used the guise of her character as a way dance sexual movements with out being sexualized herself, married ted Shawn and created the Denishawn dance school together, really sold modern dance to the American public

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Ted Shawn

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famous male modern dancer, married to Ruth St. Denis, created Denishawn school together, wanted to sell male dance to the public so he created his all male company “Ted Shawn and his Male Dancers”, land he bought to host his company turned in Jacob’s Pillow which is a famous place that hosts a dance festival every year even today, he highlighted masculinity

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Serge Diaghilev

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Associated with the Ballet Russes, impresario, background in music, had many relationships with people in the Ballet Russe and they were given special treatment and afforded opportunities because of this interest, most notably Vaslav Nijinsky

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McHail Fokine

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Choreographier for the ballet Russe, Choreographed Les Sylphides, had issues with classical ballet, dance should have a purpos, not to be pretty
DANCE: “Patrucah”

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Vaslav Nijinsky

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dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe,

DANCE: “Rite of Spring”, “Afternoon of the Fawn”, “Jeux”

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Leonide massine

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Dancer Diagahlev hired to replace Nijinsky after he was fired for marrying a wealthy ballerina, choreographed “parade”

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Bronislava Nijinska

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Nijinskys sister, choreographed “LesNoces”, “Les Biches”, “Le Train Bleu”, dancer, feminist

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George Balanchine

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Last choreographer of Ballet Russell, choreographed “Apollo”, loved Petipa, Russian dancer, didn’t care for narrative in his dances, had many ballerina muses that he was inspired by but also he married many of them- problematic

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Debussy

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Musician, did music for “Afternoon of the Faun”

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Edna Guy

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Famous modern dancer of color that danced at denishawn school

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Delsarte

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French man who taught body language for actors and public speaking, influenced Duncan and her work

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Nietzsche

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Philosopher that inspired Duncan

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Steele MacKaye

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Apart of American Delsarte system, actor, playwright, producer, “natural acting” instructor

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Genivieve stebbins

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Student of MacKaye, used breathing exercises, gymnastics, statue posing, pantomime

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Barton mumaw

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Ted shawns partner (romantically)

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Marie taglioni

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Famous ballerina that popularized pointe work

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Anna Pavlova

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Famous ballerina danced at ballet russe

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Tamara karsavina

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Famous ballerina who danced at the ballet russe

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Petipa

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Famous choreographer, associated with classical period in ballet, choreographed “Giselle” “sleeping beauty” “nutcracker” etc.

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Stravinsky

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Hella famous composer, did music for petroushka, rite of spring, les noces, apollo,

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Apollo

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Associated with light, sculpture, movement

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Roerich

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Did the set and costumes for rite of spring

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Bakst

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Easel painter diagahlev brought into ballet russe

Costuming for afternoon of the faun

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Benois

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Easel painter that diagahlev had in the ballet Russes, Set deigns for Petroushka,

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Chopin

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Composer, did music for les sylphides

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Ivanov

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Famous choreographer

“Nutcracker”

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Rambert

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Delacroizion eurythmics specialist

Brought into work with Nijinsky on rhythm

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Delcroze

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Associated Eurythmics

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Satine

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Composer

Did music for “parade”

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Picasso

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Artist
Worked with ballet russe
Did set design for “Parade”, worked on “Le train bleu”

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Cocteau

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Worked with ballet russe

Idea and scenario for “parade”

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Milhaud

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Work with ballet russe

Did music for “Le train bleu”

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Dionysus

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Theatre, wine, fertility and passion

Associated with Duncan

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“Radha”

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1905, Ruth St. Denis, inspired by Hindu god, Indian dance and Indian culture

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“La Sylphide”

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prototype for romantic ballet

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“Les Sylphides”

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Fokine, dancing for audience’s pleasure,

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“Giselle”

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Romantic ballet

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“Afternoon of the Fawn”

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Nijinsky Ballet, Focused on one dancer, minimalist,

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“Jeux”

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Nijinsky Ballet, For the ballet russe, homosexual encounter among 3 young men

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“Right of Spring”

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Nijinsky Ballet, Music: Stravinsky, Set/Costume: Roerich

Scenerio: Roerich and Stravinsky

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“Till Eulenspiegel”

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Choreograph: Nijinsky, Music: Strauss, Customes: Jones,

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“Petrouchka”

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1911, Fokine, Music: Stravinsky, heavy pantomime, puppets, complete vision for new ballet,

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“Parade”

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Massine, Music Satie, Costumes: Picasso, Scenario: Cocteau, 3 main characters

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“Les Noces” (The Cute or dear little wedding)

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1923, Choreography: Nijinksa, Music: Stravinsky, Set and Costumes: Goncharova, sibling ballet to Right of Spring, very negative outlook on marriage,

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“Les Biche”

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Choreographed by Nijinska, Music: Poolenc,

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“Le Train Bleu”

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Choreographed by Nijinska, Music: Milhaud, Scenerio: Cocteau, Ballet Russe, In sportswear by Chanel

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“Apollo Musagete” / “apollo”

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Music: Stravinsky, appeared at the ballet russe, 3 muses (poetry, dance, and mime) and Apollo

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“Kinetic Mopai”

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choreographed by Ted Shawn at Jacob’s Pillow, multiple dancers, all men, just with pants, showing the masculinity in dance

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“Revolutionary Etude”

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choreographed by isadora Duncan, repeated movements, on the floor, barefoot, draped clothing

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