Untitled spreadsheet - Sheet1 (1)

Question 1

What did August Bournonville choreograph?

Answer 1

-Sylphide (1836)

Question 2

What did Arthur St. Leon choreograph?

Answer 2

Coppelia (1870)

Question 3

What did Jules Perrot choreograph?

Answer 3

-La Esmeralda (1840)

Question 4

What did Marius Petipa choreograph?

Answer 4

-Don Quixote (1869)

Question 5

What did Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov choreograph?

Answer 5

-The Nutcracker (1892)

Question 6

What did Ted Shawn choreograph?

Answer 6

-Kinetic Molpai (1937)

Question 7

Michel Fokine

Answer 7

-Le Pavillion d’ Armide (1907)

Question 8

What did Vaslav Nijinsky choreograph?

Answer 8

-Afternoon of the Faun (1912)

Question 9

What did Leonide Massine choreograph?

Answer 9

-Parade (1917)

Question 10

What did Bronislava Nijinska choreograph?

Answer 10

-Les Noces (1923)

Question 11

What did George Balanchine choreograph?

Answer 11

-Apollon Musagete (1928)

Question 12

Ballets of the early 1800s

Answer 12

-Slyphide (1836)

Question 13

Ballets of the late 1800s

Answer 13

-Don Quixote (1869)

Question 14

Ballets of the early 1900s

Answer 14

-The Dying Swan (1907)

Question 15

What did Carlotta Grisi dance in?

Answer 15

Die Neopolitanishen Fischer

Question 16

What did Fanny Cerrito dance in?

Answer 16

Ondine

Question 17

What did Giuseppina Bozzacchi dance in?

Answer 17

Coppelia

Question 18

What did Eugenie Fiocre dance in?

Answer 18

Coppelia

Question 19

What did Anna Pavlova dance in?

Answer 19

-Coppelia

Question 20

What did Alexandre Placide dance in?

Answer 20

Two Philosophers

Question 21

What did John Durang dance in?

Answer 21

Harlequin

Question 22

What did Fanny Elssler dance in?

Answer 22

-La Cachucha

Question 23

Who danced in the Pas de Quatre?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

What did Carlotta Brianza dance in?

Answer 24

Sleeping Beauty

Question 25

What did Loie Fuller dance in?

Answer 25

-"La Fee Lumineuse" or The Fairy of Light

Question 26

What did Ruth St. Denis dance in?

Answer 26

-Radha

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Garden of Karma

Question 28

What did Ted Shawn dance in?

Answer 28

-Kinetic Molpai

Question 29

What did Vaslav Nijinsky dance in?

Answer 29

-La Spectre de la Rose

Question 30

What did Tamara Karsavina dance in?

Answer 30

-La Spectre de la Rose

Question 31

What did Bronislava dance in?

Answer 31

Les Noces

Question 32

What did Serge Lifar dance in?

Answer 32

-The Prodigal Son

Question 33

What changes occurred in ballet during the Classical Era?

Answer 33

-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

Question 34

Grand Pas de Deux

Answer 34

1. Adagio- boy and girl dance together

Question 35

Who inspired/made those changes during the Classical Era?

Answer 35

Marius Petipa

Question 36

Where did he work?

Answer 36

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

Question 37

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

Answer 37

-New York's First Ballet Season was in 1792

Question 38

Did any Romantic Era ballerinas perform in the United States?

Answer 38

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

Question 39

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

Answer 39

-Fanny Elssler

Question 40

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

Answer 40

-"barefoot" dance or "aesthetic" dance

Question 41

Who were some of the main performers/choreographers?

Answer 41

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

Question 42

Where did these people gain their fame?

Answer 42

Europe and then traveled to America

Question 43

What was their dancing like?

Answer 43

-Harmonic gymnastics of Delsarte system and Dalcroze eurhythmics

Question 44

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

Answer 44

-started by Serge Diaghilev

Question 45

Who were the main choreographers? What were their ballets?

Answer 45

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

Question 46

Who were some of the famous dancers?

Answer 46

-Anna Pavlova

Question 47

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

Answer 47

-toured the world even during WWII

Question 48

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

Answer 48

1. Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo (Rene Blum)

Question 49

How did ballet change from the Romantic Era up to the ballets of the Ballets Russes?

Answer 49

-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)