Dance Flashcards by Fred Schultz | Brainscape

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West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof choreographer

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Jerome Robbins

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Sailor’s dance

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hornpipe

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Italian dance

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Tarantella

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Joffrey Ballet’s current home

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Chicago

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Singin’ in the Rain dancer and choreographer

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Gene Kelly

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Denishawn Dance school founders

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Ted Shawn and Ruth st. Denis

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Native Amerian ballerinas from Oklahoma

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Maria and Marjorie Tallchief

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Vernon Castle’s ballroom dancing partner

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Irene (Foote) Castle

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Argentine (seductive) dance

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Tango

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Classic 1948 ballet film

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The Red Shoes

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Theater Baryshnikov directed from 1980-89

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American Ballet Theater

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Court dance of Louis XIV

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Minuet

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Spanish dance with one hand over head

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Bolero

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Maria Tallchief’s husband

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George Balanchine

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George Balanchine established this theater

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New York City Ballet

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Cuban line dance

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Conga

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Grand Hotel choreographer

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Tommy Tune

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Defected from the Kirov Ballet in 1961

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Rudolph Nureyev

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Ballet move bending at the knee

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Plié

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Spanish dance with castanets

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Fandango

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Number of classical ballet positions

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Five

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Tango relative

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Mambo

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Brazilian dances

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Lambada and Samba

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Dying Swan ballerina

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Anna Pavlova

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Tap dancer who danced with Shirley Temple

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Bill “Bojangles” Robinson

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other Stravinsky ballets (i.e. besides Petrushka)

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Firebird; The Rite of Spring

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British ballet theater

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Royal Ballet

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movie Hair choreographer

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Twyla Tharp

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“Vulgar” French dance

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Can Can

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Impressario who founded Ballet Russe

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Sergei Diaghilev

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Ballet dance for two

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Pas de deux

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Radio City Music Hall dancers

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Rockettes

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Choreographer of Rodeo and Oklahoma!

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Agnes de Mille

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1940s-50s jive dance

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Jitterbug

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1911 Igor Stravinsky puppet ballet

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Petrushka

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Polish national dance

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Mazurka

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English-Irish dance

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Jig

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Ballet move extending one leg straight back 90 degrees

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Arabesque

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Fred Astaire’s sister

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Adele Astaire

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British ballerina known as Margot Hookham

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Margot Fonteyn

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American Dance Theater founder

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Alvin Ailey

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The Tap Dance Kid star

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Savion Glover

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Defected from the Bolshoi Ballet in 1974

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Mikhail Baryshnikov (Misha)

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Bohemian dance

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Polka

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Chicago Ballet founder

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Maria Tallchief

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Ballerina who defected from the Kirov Ballet in 1970

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Natalia Makarova

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Top Hat and The Gay Divorcee dancer

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Fred Astaire

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Peter Tschaikovsky ballets

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Swan Lake ;Sleeping Beauty

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Andelusian (gypsy) dance

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Flamenco

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Moscow Square ballet theater

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Bolshoi

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Court dance

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Pavan

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Famous burlesque stripper

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Gypsy Rose Lee

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Ukranian-born dancer who came to the U.S. in 1916

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Vaslav Nijinsky

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Famous fan dancer

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Sally Rand

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Dance Party host

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Arthur Murray

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Afternoon of a Faun choreographer

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Vaslav Nijinsky

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Black St. Louis born dancer who lived in France

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Josephine Baker

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Moscow School of Dance founder

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Isadora Duncan

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Appalachian Spring choreographer

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Martha Graham

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3/4 time Viennese dance

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Waltz

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St. Petersburg ballet theater

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Kirov