True or false... Dance during the modern age is experimental
100
Combines a romantic story with music and dancing
What is an operetta?
100
Frank Lloyd Wright
This American architect is known for using organic forms in his designs and for developing the “Prairie” style of architecture. He also created a house called "Falling Waters."
100
Variety and Talent shows that included circus like performances and skits. Also included burlesque.
What is Vaudeville.
100
Cubism
Which artistic style, invented by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, breaks real objects down into geometric shapes and forms?
200
Father of Modern Ballet
What was Michael Fokine's nickname? (Hint: The Father of ________________).
200
George Gershwin
Who wrote Rhapsody in Blue, had a brother who was also an accomplished musician, and who's music captured the bright lights, busyness, and optimistic feeling of life in the big American City?
200
Salvador Dali
A Spanish artist known for creating artwork, such as The Persistence of Memory, in the style called Surrealism.
200
A Chorus Line
What is the group of girls called who became an important part of musicals long before the integration or serious dance into musicals. (Hint: This is also the title of a hit musical)
200
Pop Art
This artistic style drew inspiration from popular culture and the mass-produced products used by everyday consumers.
300
Alvin Ailey
This African-American dancer and choreographer is noted for breaking down racial barriers in his works and is considered one of the leading modern dance artists of the mid-to-late 20th century
300
Duke Ellington
This pianist and composer is noted for his influence in the development of jazz; he used the distinct American sound of jazz music in his orchestral works, ballets, and band music; and he gained huge popularity while being band leader at the Cotton Club.
300
Dorothea Lange
An American photographer known for her images of migrant families after the Great Depression.
300
What musical by George Gershwin is being revived this year?
Porgy and Bess
300
Abstract
Picasso was most inspired by the primitive, simplistic, contemporary design... especially African American masks. This style is nonrepresentational.
400
Oklahoma!
Which musical was the first to use ballet as an integral element?
400
Igor Stravinsky
Which Russian-American composer is known for his versatility and gained notoriety by breaking from musical tradition with his third ballet for the Ballet Russes, The Rite of Spring (which was harshly dissonant and had irregular accented rhythms)?
400
Jacob Lawrence
An African-American artist known for his series of paintings which documented the black experience, as well as for his use of simplified shapes and bold colors in his paintings.
400
Romeo and Juliet
In the 1950's a musical was born called West Side Story. What Shakespeare play is this story line based off of?
400
The Blue period and the Rose period.
Picasso had two style "periods" based on two colors. What were these two periods called?
500
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Which Russian dancer defected to the US in 1974 where he became a huge star soloist in ballet; then later, became director of the American Ballet Theatre and formed his own dance company, White Oaks Dance Project, which integrates ballet and modern dance?
500
False: would appeal to the average citizen
True of False: Aaron Copland wrote music that he felt:would only be appreciated by the upper class.
500
Georgia O'Keeffe
Which American artist is known for her paintings of the southwest, extreme close-ups of flowers, and use of abstraction?
500
the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize
Musicals and Plays can receive what two prestigious awards?
500
technology
What has had the biggest effect on contemporary dramas, including comedies and tragedies?