Dance
Drama/Musicals
Music
Visual Art
Miscellaneous
100
This type of dance is characterized by full-body movements that are meant to express an emotion.
What is Modern dance?
100
This musical was the first to use ballet as an integral element.
What is Oklahoma!?
100
This person performed at the Cotton Club and had a great influence on jazz in America.
Who is Duke Ellington?
100
This Spanish artist is known for painting in the style called Surrealism.
Who is Salvador Dali?
100
This African American artist was known for his series of paintings which documented the black experience.
Who is Jacob Lawrence?
200
This African-American dancer and choreographer is considered one of the leading modern dance artists of teh 20th century.
Who is Alvin Ailey?
200
This has had the biggest effect on contemporary dramas, including comedies and tragedies, in the 20th century.
What is technology?
200
This composer wrote music that he thought would appeal to the average citizen. He was also accused of being a Communist during the McCarthy era.
Who is Aaron Copland?
200
Photographer Dorothea Lange is known for taking photos of this theme.
What is migrant families after the Great Depression OR Great Depression?
200
This became the longest running musical on Broadway before it closed.
What is Chorus Line?
300
This Russian dancer and choreographer is known as "the father of the modern ballet".
Who is Michel Fokine?
300
"Porgy and Bess" and "Of Thee I Sing" were both composed by this person.
Who is George Gershwin?
300
This composer is known for writing music for musicals with his brother Ira.
Who is George Gershwin?
300
This art style breaks down real objects into geometric shapes and forms.
What is cubism?
300
Aaron Copland used this in order to create a unique American sound to his music.
What is American stories, folk tales, and jazz?
400
Modern dance is a rebellion against this type of traditional dance.
What is ballet?
400
This 1927 musical is about the love between a black man and a white woman.
What is Showboat?
400
This artist wrote "Fanfare for the Common Man".
Who is Aaron Copland?
400
This artistic style drew inspiration from popular culture and the mass-produced items used by everyday consumers.
What is Pop Art?
400
This is the decade that jazz became really popular.
What is the 1920's?
500
Mikhail Baryshnikov took this risk in 1974. It paid off because he became as huge soloist star in ballet.
What is defected to the U.S.?
500
The contemporary musical "Rent" was adapted from this opera.
What is La Boheme?
500
This Russian composer wrote "The Rite of Spring" (which had harshly dissonant and irregular accented rhythms).
Who is Igor Stravinsky?
500
This American artist is known for her paintings of the southwest, extreme close-ups of flowers, and use of abstraction.
Who is Georgia O'Keeffe?
500
This war, which took place in the 1910's, showed that the U.S. was a country to be reckoned with.
What is World War I?
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