Name that Choreographer
Potpourri
Contemporary Ballet
Theatrical Dance
Techniques, etc.
100
This choreographer choreographed several works based on Greek tragedies, was influenced by psychoanalysis, and created her technique based on her own body.
Who is Martha Graham?
100
This work by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker was appropriated into this pop star's music video.
Who is Beyonce?
100
This choreographer created his work, Bolero, to Ravel's score of the same name.
Who is Maurice Bejart?
100
He choreographed West Side Story.
Who is Jerome Robbins?
100
This movement language was developed by Ohad Naharin.
What is Gaga?
200
This is the choreographer that we associate with starting Jacob’s Pillow.
Who is Ted Shawn?
200
This choreographer wrote the book, The Art of Making Dances, a dance composition primer.
Who is Doris Humphrey?
200
This choreographer created the work Petit Mort.
Who is Jiří Kylián?
200
This choreographer's work with Oklahoma! ushered in a new way of how dance interacted with and furthered the story line within musical theatre productions.
Who is Agnes deMille?
200
Fall and Recovery is one of the defining choreographic elements of this technique.
What is Humphrey technique?
300
This choreographer's passion for social justice in the piece How Long Brethren caused a stir because of its racial/political undertones
Who is Helen Tamaris?
300
Authentic Movement was an expressive improvisational practice started by this dance artist.
Who is Mary Starks Whitehouse?
300
Matthew Bourne is known for his untraditional takes on classic ballets, like his all-male version of this ballet.
What is Swan Lake?
300
This musical featured choreography by Katherine Dunham and the famous staircase tap dance by the Nicholas Brothers.
What is Stormy Weather?
300
This California-based dance teacher created a codified dance technique that features: flat-back, square pelvis, lateral-T
Who is Lester Horton?
400
This choreographer's dance Strange Fruit investigated the pain and suffering of a woman through highly physical pedestrian movements.
Who is Pearl Primus?
400
He developed an acting style that attempted to connect the inner emotional experience of the actor with a systematized set of gestures and movements based upon his own observations of human interaction.
Who is François Delsarte?
400
This English ballet choreographer work is expressive and dramatic. He choreographed Jardin aux Lilas (Lilac Garden).
Who is Anthony Tudor?
400
Like the Modern Dance pioneers, Musical Theatre in America found its origins in this circuit.
What is vaudeville?
400
What is Laban Movement Analysis?
500
This choreographer connects physics and dance, and has her dancers throw themselves into walls etc.
Who is Elizabeth Streb?
500
This is "the inferred responsibility of privileged people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privileged."
What is Noblesse Oblige?
500
Most of the contemporary ballet choreographers we discussed are this gender and race.
What is white males?
500
Fred Astaire and this male dancer were two of the Hollywood leading men in the 1940s American Musical era. He starred in Singin' in the Rain.
Who is Gene Kelly?
500
Steve Paxton helped to develop this, movement concept which rejected gender and social hierarchies, does not have a leader or follower, and allows everyone to give and receive
What is Contact Improvisation?