Ballet and Modern Dance for Northwestern University's History of Lyric Theatre
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Year, Title and Importance of book that suggested that artists should fashion their talents to the service of the masses
Author: Tchernichovsky -
The Relationship between Art and Reality
1855
Led to formation of Ambulants/Wanderers - Definition: Ambulants and Wanderers
- Social realists who rejected all foreign influence from the West and whose art dominated Russia until the mid 1870s
- Birth year of Diaghilev
- 1872
- Era and Significance of Russian Decorative Revival
- 1880s-- Russian artists became reaquainted with folk arts through the establishment of art colonies in Abramtsevo and Talshinko
- Art colonies were founded by?
- J. A. Mamontov
- Year and Name of art review edited by Diaghilev
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1899 World of Art
Open to the art trends of the West, especially French Symbolists
Greatest passion was Russian -
Fundamental doctrine of World of Art
Motto for World of Art -
"art for art's sake"
"Art is free, life is paralyzed." - Year: Ballet Russes open
- 1909
- How did Diaghilev and Fokine meet?
- Diaghilev was appointed assistant to the director of the Imperial Theatre; Diaghilev championed the reforms suggested by Fokine that the Imperial Theatre rejected.
- Principal Dancers of first year of Ballet Russes
- Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina
- Designers of Ballet Russes
- Bakst, Bennois, Roerich
- Where were the Ballet Russes presented?
- Paris! Twenty seasons.
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Early Ballets of Ballet Russes
Bonus if in order -
1909-- Prince Igor, Cleopatre
1910-- Scheherazade and Les Orientales, FIREBIRD
1911--Spectre de la Rose, Petrouchka, Sadko, Narcisse - Importance of The Firebird and Year, Composer
- 1910-- first entirely Russian story ballet; Composer Stravinsky
- Nijinsky choreographed which ballets (most famous ones at least)? When did he start?
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1912-- Afternoon of a Faun (Debussy)
1913-- Rite of Spring -
Who took over from Nijinsky as Diaghilev's major choreographer?
What was his debut? - Leonid Massine; La Soleil de Nuit
- Picasso designed what ballet? Composer/Choreographer?
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"Parade
Massine
Satie - When was Italy the center of the arts?
- 15th and 16th centuries
- When was Paris the center of the arts?
- 17th, 18th, and 19th
- When was Imperial Russia the center of the arts? Why?
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End of 19th Century
Peter the Great - Bolshoi
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means big
large theater in Moscow
more like a circus, large scale -
Theatre where Petipa worked
Place where he taught -
Maryinsky Theatre, refined style
Imperial Ballet School - What method did the Imperial Ballet function under?
- Vaganova method-- highly technical; done by Petipa
- Petipa is known as the
- father of classical ballet
- Petipa choreographed over __ ballets
- 60
- Structure of a story ballet
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Opening scene-- celebration
4 act and 3 act; one is ballet blanc
Always end in divertisements - Lev Ivanov
- helped choreograph Swan Lake and Nutcracker
- Margot Fonteyn
- FILL IN
- Raymonda
- last Petipa Ballet
- Maria Camargo
- first dancer; raised hem of dress to display her footwork; began to do highly stylized court dances
- Marie Taglioni
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virgin ballerina, star of Romantic Ballet
very spiritual, unattainable - Author of quote: "to see what you are and be something totally different, and that requires magic"
- George Ballantine
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Star of "La Sylphide"
Nation of La Sylphide -
Marie Taglioni
Scotland - Entraveste
- man playing a woman's role
- First dancer en pointe
- Marie Talgioni
- How many ruffles are in a Russian tutu?
- 13
- Name for dancer at peak of profession (female and male)
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prima ballerina absoluta
primer dancer - White ballets were known as
- Ballets Blancs
- Pagan dancer
- Fanny Elsner
- claques
- people paid to clap
- First "ballet" and star
- Robert le Diable; Marie Taglioni
- Composer of Giselle; star
- Adolphe Adam; Carlotta Grisi
- Members of the Pas de Quatre
- Carlotta Grisi, Marie Taglioni, Lucille Grahn, and Fanny Cerrito
- Five famous American ballet companies
- ABT, New York, San Francisco, Joffrey, Houston
- Star of what ballet with technical feat
- Swan Lake; Black Swan Pas de Deux, Pierina Legnani, 32 fouettes
- Cavalier
- male in the pas de deux
- Folkine
- credited with one act ballet; Les Sylphides; choreograph by subject matter
- Les Nachts
- Najinska, body positions
- George Ballanchine was associated with what method? What company?
- Neoclassicism; NY Ballet
- Choreographers with ABT
- Twyla Tharp, Agnes de Mille, Anthony Tudor
- Company, Choreographer, Composer, and Stars of Romeo and Juliet
- Royal Ballet, Kenneth MacMillan, Prokofiev, Nureyev, Fontayne
- Modern dance choreographer focusing on different media
- Louis Fouler
- Modern dance choreographer; grandmother of modern dance
- Isadora Duncan
- Modern dance choreographer; didn't want men to be sissies anymore, dressed in costumes
- Ruth St. Denis
- Modern dance choreographer; choreographed "The Shakers"
- Doris Humphrey