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