DANC 101 Final Exam Study Guide For each time period be able to 1 summarize the culture describe the society that was the context for the dance 2 explain who the dancers were in general and including specific significant people 3 describe what the dances were like their theme or purpose design accompaniment and costuming 4 name some specific researchers and writers if relevant VOCABULARY 3 Prehistory In harmony and out of harmony dances expanded and closed dances pure and weakened convulsive dances 4 Egypt Funeral dances Nile Pharaoh Priests Crete Bull dances Minotaur Greece Pyrrhic dances Dithyramb Dionysus Rome Bathyllus of Alexandria and Pylades of Cilicia Mime Pantomime 5 Middle Ages and Renaissance Carole galliard pavane volta Commedia dell arte Dance epidemics Mystery Miracle and Morality plays 6 Dance at Court Acad mie Royale de la Musique et Danse Ballet d ecole masque anti masque Turnout Pierre Beauchamps Catherine de Medici Louis XIV of France Jean Baptiste Lully 7 From Court to Theater Ballet d action Lettres sur la danse et sur les ballet Jean George Noverre John Weaver 8 Romantic Ballet Giselle La Sylphide Carlo Blasis August Bournonville Carlotta Grisi Jules Perrot Filippo Taglioni Marie Taglioni Classical Ballet The Sleeping Beauty Swan Lake Lev Ivanov Marius Petipa 10 Imported Influences 1900 1929 Serge Diaghilev Vaslav Nijinsky Isadora Duncan Ted Shawn Ruth St Denis 11 Emerging American Dance 1930 1944 George Balanchine Agnes de Mille Antony Tudor Martha Graham Doris Humphrey 12 Maturing Classics 1945 1959 Jerome Robbins Lester Horton Jos Lim n DANC 101 Final Exam Study Guide 13 Chance and Change Ballet Gerald Arpino Mikhail Baryshnikov Suzanne Farrell Robert Joffrey Arthur Mitchell Dance Theatre of Harlem Creole Giselle Joffrey Ballet Astarte Regional ballet movement Modern Alvin Ailey John Cage Merce Cunningham Robert and Judith Dunn Meredith Monk Alwin Nikolais Yvonne Rainer Paul Taylor Twyla Tharp Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Grand Union Judson Dance Theatre Pilobolus Contact improvisation Postmodern dance Push Comes to Shove Revelations Points in Space 14 New Directions Ballet Karole Armitage Eliot Feld Alonzo King Peter Martins Christopher Wheeldon Jiri Kylian Petit Mort Modern Trisha Brown Garth Fagan David Gordon Bill T Jones Mark Morris Dido and Aeneas The Hard Nut Last Supper at Uncle Tom s Cabin The Promised Land Accumulation