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What did August Bournonville choreograph?

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-Sylphide (1836)

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What did Arthur St. Leon choreograph?

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Coppelia (1870)

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What did Jules Perrot choreograph?

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-La Esmeralda (1840)

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What did Marius Petipa choreograph?

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-Don Quixote (1869)

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What did Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov choreograph?

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-The Nutcracker (1892)

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What did Ted Shawn choreograph?

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-Kinetic Molpai (1937)

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Michel Fokine

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-Le Pavillion d’ Armide (1907)

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What did Vaslav Nijinsky choreograph?

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-Afternoon of the Faun (1912)

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What did Leonide Massine choreograph?

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-Parade (1917)

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What did Bronislava Nijinska choreograph?

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-Les Noces (1923)

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What did George Balanchine choreograph?

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-Apollon Musagete (1928)

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Ballets of the early 1800s

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-Slyphide (1836)

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Ballets of the late 1800s

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-Don Quixote (1869)

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Ballets of the early 1900s

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-The Dying Swan (1907)

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What did Carlotta Grisi dance in?

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Die Neopolitanishen Fischer

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What did Fanny Cerrito dance in?

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Ondine

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What did Giuseppina Bozzacchi dance in?

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Coppelia

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What did Eugenie Fiocre dance in?

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Coppelia

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What did Anna Pavlova dance in?

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-Coppelia

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What did Alexandre Placide dance in?

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Two Philosophers

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What did John Durang dance in?

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Harlequin

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What did Fanny Elssler dance in?

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-La Cachucha

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Who danced in the Pas de Quatre?

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Marie Taglioni, Carlotta Grisi, Lucille Grahn, and Fanny Cerrito

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What did Carlotta Brianza dance in?

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Sleeping Beauty

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What did Loie Fuller dance in?

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-“La Fee Lumineuse” or The Fairy of Light

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What did Ruth St. Denis dance in?

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-Radha

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What did Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn dance in together?

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Garden of Karma

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What did Ted Shawn dance in?

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-Kinetic Molpai

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What did Vaslav Nijinsky dance in?

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-La Spectre de la Rose

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What did Tamara Karsavina dance in?

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-La Spectre de la Rose

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What did Bronislava dance in?

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Les Noces

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What did Serge Lifar dance in?

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-The Prodigal Son

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What changes occurred in ballet during the Classical Era?

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-Jean Baptiste Landre was the ballet master and was replaced by Jules Perrot and was replaced by Arthur St. Leon and is replaced by Petipa

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Grand Pas de Deux

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  1. Adagio- boy and girl dance together
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Who inspired/made those changes during the Classical Era?

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Marius Petipa

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Where did he work?

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He became Ballet Master of the Imperial Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia

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When did ballet come to the United States? What was it like?

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-New York’s First Ballet Season was in 1792

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Did any Romantic Era ballerinas perform in the United States?

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Fanny Elssler went to New York in 1840 and stayed for 2 years

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Who were a few of the main early American ballet dancers?

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-Fanny Elssler

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How did dance change in the beginning of the 20th century?

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-“barefoot” dance or “aesthetic” dance

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Who were some of the main performers/choreographers?

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Dancers included Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis

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Where did these people gain their fame?

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Europe and then traveled to America

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What was their dancing like?

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-Harmonic gymnastics of Delsarte system and Dalcroze eurhythmics

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The Ballets Russes: Who started it? What was his artistic philosophy?

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-started by Serge Diaghilev

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Who were the main choreographers? What were their ballets?

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Michel Fokine: Daphnis et Chloe, The Dying Swan, Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose, Le Pavillion d’ Armide, Firebird, Petrouchka, Scheherazade, Carnaval

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Who were some of the famous dancers?

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-Anna Pavlova

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What happened to the company after the death of the founder of the Ballet Russes?

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-toured the world even during WWII

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What were the name of the two main following companies? Who started them?

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  1. Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo (Rene Blum)
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How did ballet change from the Romantic Era up to the ballets of the Ballets Russes?

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-the Ballets Russes had very radical and innovative choreography, rejected much ballet technique but still danced en pointe, angular poses and asymmetrical groupings (often comedy was used)