Ballet Flashcards
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Maria Tallchief played the sugarplum fairy in a 1954 New York City ballet performance of this classic
The Nutcracker
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This wooden rail attached to the wall of a ballet studio is used by the dancers for support during exercises
a barre
$1200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Born Margaret Hookham in England, she made her professional debut in 1934 at the age of 15
Margot Fonteyn
$1600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Onstage this late Soviet defector often partnered Maya Plisetskaya; offstage, Jacqueline Bisset
Alexander Godunov
$2000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| When “Le Pavillon d’Armide” premiered in 1907, Vaslav Nijinsky played the slave & she played Armide
Anna Pavlova
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Fancy Free” follows 3 of these on leave in New York City
sailors
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Princess Aurora’s christening is in the prologue of this ballet
Sleeping Beauty
$1200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Nijinsky’s choreography & Stravinsky’s score caused a riot at the 1913 premiere of this ballet
The Rite of Spring
$5000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This ballet choreographed by Agnes de Mille is subtitled “The Courting at Burnt Ranch”
Rodeo
$2000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Adolphe Adam’s masterpiece is the music for this 1841 ballet in which the title girl emerges from her grave to dance
Giselle
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In the 1960s Galina Ulanova retired & Maya Plisetskaya became this company’s prima ballerina
the Bolshoi
$1600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Before studying ballet & opening his own ballet school in New York City in 1953, he was a tap dancer
(Robert) Joffrey
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In 1877 “Swan Lake” premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in this city with choreography by Julius Reisinger
Moscow
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In the ballet “Petrouchka”, the ballerina is one of these doll-like toys, as is Petrouchka himself
a puppet
$1200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Soon after defecting to the West on June 17, 1961, he began performing with the Ballet of Marquis de Cuevas
Nureyev
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This ballet concludes with Pat Garrett leading pioneers, marching west
Billy the Kid
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Twyla Tharp used the music of this group for the ballet “Deuce Coupe”
The Beach Boys
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Facing the evil Kastchei, Prince Ivan summons this title creature with a red feather
the Firebird
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Jerome Robbins choreographed a ballet to these Bach “Variations”
Goldberg Variations
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| A maiden is chosen for a sacrifice, the title act of this 1913 ballet
The Rite of Spring
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The title character of this ballet leads toy soldiers in a fight against the mouse king & his army
The Nutcracker
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| A review of this 1910 ballet said ornithologists should take note of Tamara Karsavina dancing the title role
Firebird
$1200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Balanchine’s first original full-length ballet was an adaptation of this “dreamy” Shakespeare play
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
$2000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Scene One of this American ballet is set at the corral of Burnt Ranch
Rodeo
$2000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| She’s the Queen of the Swans in “Swan Lake”
Odette
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This Shakespeare play inspired Jose Limon to create “The Moor’s Pavane”, & he danced the lead role himself
Othello
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| We’re not toying with you: one of Andersen’s fairy tales inspired the ballet “The Steadfast Tin” this
Soldier
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In “Western Symphony”, dance hall girls & cowboys cavort to classic tunes like this “River Valley”
“Red River Valley”
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| It’s the “little” French surname of choreographer Roland of the Ballets de Paris
Petit
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The jazzy ballet “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue” was originally part of the Broadway musical “On Your” these
Toes
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In the 1948 ballet “Fall River Legend”, this character is hanged although in real life she was acquitted
Lizzie Borden
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This Stravinsky character first played by Tamara Karsavina has the face & arms of a girl & a body of feathers
the Firebird
$3000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The 1890 premiere of this ballet included Enrico Ceccheti as the Bluebird & Carlotta Brianza as Aurora
Sleeping Beauty
$1600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| He was married to Maria Tallchief when he choreographed her in his 1948 ballet “Orpheus”
George Balanchine
$2000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The first ballet, “Ballet Comique de la Reine”, was commissioned by this French queen for her sister’s wedding in 1581
Catherine de’ Medici
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The New York City ballet’s first visit to this city’s famous festival inspired the ballet “Scotch Symphony”
Edinburgh
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The 1972 ballet “Printemps” premiered in the winter, but its name is French for this season
spring
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Balanchine choreographed the leading role in “Allegro Brillante” for this part-Osage Indian ex-wife
Maria Tallchief
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Alexandre Dumas fils’ tale about “The Lady of” these flowers bloomed as the ballet “Marguerite and Armand”
the Camellias
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| As a law student in St. Petersburg, this man became interested in the arts, & in 1909 he founded the Ballets Russes
Diaghilev
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Cadets attend a dance at a girls’ school in “Graduation Ball”, a ballet set in this capital of Austria
Vienna
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The 2000 ballet “Todo Buenos Aires” features different interpretations of this sensual ballroom dance
the tango
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| I may say “neigh!” if you do a pas de cheval, a ballet step that imitates this animal
a horse
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| He designed sets & costumes for “Where the Wlid Things Are”, a ballet based on his own beloved book
Maurice Sendak
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The Carolina Ballet debuted a 2006 work based on this stormy Shakespearean shipwreck saga
The Tempest
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Tend to lose your slippers? Perhaps you should star in this ballet that also features a pumpkin coach
Cinderella
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In the classic ballet based on this fairy tale, Carabosse is the evil fairy who conjures up that spindle curse
Sleeping Beauty
$1200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The temps de poisson, a jump with arched back & crossed feet, literally means “time of” this animal
fish
$10000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| A flurry of ballerinas performs the “Waltz of the Snowflakes” in this beloved ballet
The Nutcracker
$2000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Just like the opera, the 1949 ballet version of “Carmen” takes place in this country
Spain
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The last act of this ballet is sometimes presented independently in one act as “Aurora’s Wedding”
Sleeping Beauty
$6000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Pat Garrett is one of the roles in this American ballet
Billy the Kid
$1600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This Nijinsky-choreographed ballet has 2 scenes: “Adoration of the Earth” & “The Sacrified”
The Rite of Spring
$2000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This alliterative Jerome Robbins ballet focuses on 3 sailors on shore leave in New York
Fancy Free
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The ballet “Les patineurs” focuses on this athletic pastime, with the dancers gliding by in wintry setting
ice skating
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In part two of the ballet “Jewels”, the dancers dress like these red gems
rubies
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In the 1940s & 1950s Galina Ulanova was the chief ballerina for this company formed almost 200 years earlier
the Bolshoi
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Appropriate 1-word title of the Balanchine Ballet in 3 parts: “Emeralds”, “Rubies” & “Diamonds”
Jewels
$1200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This choreographer’s first ballet “Fancy Free”, combined ballet & jazz dancing
Jerome Robbins
$1600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In 1912 this Russian not only choreographed “The Afternoon of a Faun”, he danced the part of the faun as well
Nijinsky
$2000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Literally French for “beating”, this movement of the leg may be grand, petit or frappe
a battement
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Filling Station” features dancing truck drivers & this 1930s dance whose name is New York City’s nickname
the Big Apple
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Concubines & a eunuch are featured in the exotic ballet named for this “Arabian Nights” tale-spinner
Scheherezade
$1200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Tipsy revelers frolic with ladies of easy virtue in the Hogarth-inspired ballet about this man’s “Progress”
the Rake
$1600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In an 1870 Delibes ballet, Swanilda, the heroine, gets all dolled up to impersonate this title doll
Coppelia
$2000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| 1977’s “Calcium Light Night” was the first ballet choreographed by this great Dane, Ballet Master in Chief of the NYCB
Peter Martins
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Emma Livry, who triumphed as this creature in “Le Papillon”, died after her dress caught fire
a butterfly
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| His leaps earned comparisons with Nijinsky when he joined the Kirov Ballet in 1958
Nureyev
$1200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This Italian-named brand got a boost in 1910 when Pavlova bought shoes for her whole company
Capezio
$1600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In Scene 1 of this 1942 ballet, several men have to dance around so as to look like they’re on horseback
Rodeo
$2000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This company’s first season opened in 1948 with 3 Balanchine ballets
the New York City Ballet
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In 1973 Twyla Tharp choreographed “Deuce Coupe” for the Joffrey Ballet with music by this group
the Beach Boys
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In 1980 Marjorie Tallchief helped this older sister found the Chicago City Ballet
Maria Tallchief
$1200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| A prima ballerina is the star female dancer of a ballet company; this French term refers to the star male dancer
premiere dancer
$1600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This touring group exhibited a Russian spirit, but never performed in Russia; it broke up after Diaghilev’s death
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
$2000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In 1990 Mark Morris & Baryshnikov founded this “Project”, a touring company
The White Oak Dance Project
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Center practice is done without the support of this wall-lining object
the bar
$1600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The name of this scissor-legged ballet leap means “thrown”
jete
$2000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Nijinsky is seen here in costome for this ballet, with a score by Stravinsky
Petrushka
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The tale of the tortoise & the hare comes to life in Karen Corey-Malik’s ballet based on this man’s fables
Aesop
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Something” tells us the ABT presented a ballet tribute to this former Beatle who passed away in 2001
George Harrison
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Czar Nicholas II & this empress appear in “Anastasia”, a ballet about one of their daughters
Alexandra
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Arrgh! A pirate is the hero of “Le Corsaire”, based on an 1814 poem by this British lord
Lord Byron
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In 2003 the dance theatre of this N.Y. neighborhood presented the world premiere of “St. Louis Woman: A Blues Ballet”
Harlem
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In 1661 Louis XIV established a ballet academy in a room of this current art museum
the Louvre
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Agnes de Mille’s ballet “Fall River Legend” was based on the case of this accused murderess
Lizzie Borden
$1200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| During his long association with the NYC ballet, he choreographed “West Side Story” & other musicals
Jerome Robbins
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| One version of this ballet includes Crystal, the little glass slipper fairy
Cinderella
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This Christmas ballet is based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann
The Nutcracker
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Pat Garrett is one of the roles in this ballet that features music by Aaron Copland
Billy the Kid
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Jose Limon’s “The Moor’s Pavane” is based on this tragedy
Othello
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Adoration of the Earth” & “The Sacrifice” are the 2 parts of this Stravinsky ballet
The Rite of Spring
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This Cubist did set designs for 1917’s “Parade” & had designs on its ballerina Olga Khoklova, later his wife
Pablo Picasso
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| If the original play is too long for you, you might like “The Dream”, a 1-act ballet based on this Shakespeare play
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In ballet terminology, it’s a full complete turn of the body on one foot
pirouette
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| A releve is the raising of the body by lifting these
heels
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “1963: Yesterday” is danced to music made famous by this group, including “Yesterday”
the Beatles
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In 1999 Ballet Pacifica premiered “Moonlight”, performed to a sonata by this composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
$1200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In a ballet based on Bizet’s opera, this hussy of a heroine meets a violent end outside a bullring
Carmen
$1600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The story & the music of the ballet “Revenge” come from this composer’s opera “Il Trovatore”
Giuseppe Verdi
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The ballet “Jeu de Cartes” features dancing playing cards, & this one is the “trickster” of the pack
the joker
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The longer “romantic” version of this ballet garment was inspired by the one Taglioni wore in the 1830s
tutu
$1200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| A ballet blanc, such as “La Sylphide”, traditionally features costumes of this color
white
$1600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| From the French meaning “to bend”, this basic bending movement prepares a dancer to spring high into the air
plie
$2000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| French sculptor whose art inspired “The Eternal Idol” (hmmm…that’s a “Thinker”)
Auguste Rodin
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Princess Aurora pricks her finger on a spindle in Act I of this classic ballet
Sleeping Beauty
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is known as the oldest major ballet company in this country
Canada
$2000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In a famous Tchaikovsky ballet, Odette is the queen of these birds
swans
$1600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| A graveyard scene (with bats!) is in Matthew Wright’s ballet based on this “monstrous” Mary Shelley novel.
Frankenstein
$2000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Liebeslieder Walzer” is danced to music by this German famed for his “lullaby”
Brahms
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| A sexually confused stable boy is the focus of this ballet based on Peter Shaffer’s play of the same name
Equus
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The 1938 premiere of this ballet featured Lew Christensen in the role of Pat Garrett
Billy the Kid
$1200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Von Rotbart is the evil, bird-like sorcerer in this classic 1877 ballet
Swan Lake
$1600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In 1911 this great dancer leapt into immortality with his magnificent exit leap in “Le spectre de la rose”
Nijinsky
$2000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This choreographer played one of the sailors when his ballet “Fancy Free” premiered in 1944
Jerome Robbins
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Herr Drosselmeyer brings Clara a special Christmas gift in this 1892 ballet
The Nutcracker
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Act three, scene one of this ballet is called “The Awakening”
Sleeping Beauty
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Prince Siegfried & Odette drown themselves toward the end of this classic ballet
Swan Lake
$100 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This ballet by Agnes De Mille is subtitled “The Courting at Burnt Ranch”
Rodeo
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This title character has the face & arms of a woman & a body of feathers that tapers off in flames
The Firebird
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “After Eden” dramatizes what happened to this couple after they left the garden
Adam & Eve
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Coppelia” is subtitled “The Girl with Enamel Eyes” because Coppelia is one of these toys
a doll
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The Royal Danish Ballet marked the start of its 2000 season with a free outdoor show in this Danish capital
Copenhagen
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| If you’re “Home Alone”, you may want to rent the 1993 film of “The Nutcracker”, with this young star in the title role
Macaulay Culkin
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “This Property is Condemned “ is based on a 1-act play by this author of “The Glass Menagerie”
Tennessee Williams
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In a 1999 ballet, Roger Van Fleteren played Dr. Jekyll & Wes Chapman played this alter ego
Mr. Hyde
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Go Daddy-O!” celebrates this style of music that Benny Goodman was the “King of”
Swing
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| A 1982 Twyla Tharp work is danced to 9 of this singer’s hits, including “Strangers in the Night” & “My Way”
Frank Sinatra
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The Joffrey’s 1993 ballet “Billboards” rocks with the music of this “Purple Rain”er
Prince
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “A Streetcar…” is an abstract ballet inspired by the work of this playwright
Tennessee Williams
$None ||| Category: BALLET ||| Russian, Chinese, Arabian & Spanish dances are highlights of this ballet that premiered December 18, 1892
The Nutcracker
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Former Royal Ballet dancer Celia Franca founded the National Ballet of this North American country in 1951
Canada
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The comic ballet “Offenbach in the Underworld” features dancers in hats that look like this Parisian tower
Eiffel Tower
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Nina Ananiashvili toured the U.S. in 2000 as prima ballerina of this Moscow-based ballet company
Bolshoi
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Act 1, Scene 1 of this Balanchine ballet based on this novel is set in La Mancha
“Don Quixote”
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Lady From the Sea” is adapted from a 19th century play by this Norwegian
Henrik Ibsen
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| A new ballet about this puppet who yearns to be a boy had it’s U.S. premiere in Atlanta in 2000
Pinocchio
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Scrooge” is a festive holiday ballet inspired by this beloved book
A Christmas Carol
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In a Tchaikovsky ballet, this title character is awakened with a kiss
Sleeping Beauty
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “The Nutcracker” often features a pas de deux bythe prince and this fairy who rules the Kingdom of Sweets
the Sugarplum Fairy
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” is based on a fairy tale by this famous Dane
Hans Christian Andersen
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The Houston Ballet’s sexy new ballet about this queen features a bathtub scene & an orgy (you bet your asp!)
Cleopatra
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “The Concert” is a humorous ballet danced to music by this Polish-French composer, including the “Minute Waltz”
Frederic Chopin
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| [Hi, I’m Michael Feinstein here at the Hollywood Bowl] In 1932 the ballet “Elysia” was commissioned by the Hollywood Bowl in celebration of this sports event
Summer Olympics (in Los Angeles)
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This Russian-born American choreographer collaborated with Stravinsky on the complex 1957 ballet “Agon”
George Balanchine
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| He choreographed “The Cage”, a ballet about predatory female insects, 6 years before “West Side Story”
Jerome Robbins
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This Spanish surrealist designed a”maze”ing sets & costumes for the 1941 ballet “Labyrinth”
Salvador Dali
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| A picnic with Rasputin is the opening scene of the ballet named for this grand duchess
Anastasia
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In 1992 dancer Kevin McKenzie became artistic director of this company once led by Mikhail Baryshnikov
American Ballet Theatre
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| A cowgirl wins the heart of a champion roper in this Agnes De Mille ballet
Rodeo
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This “Pomp And Circumstance” composer is a character in the ballet named for his “Enigma Variations”
Edward Elgar
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Valerie Bettis choreographed a ballet based on this Tennessee Williams play & sometimes played Blanche in it
“A Streetcar Named Desire”
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Company B” is danced to songs made famous by these sisters, including “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”
The Andrews Sisters
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Salvador Dali created the story, sets & costumes for “Bacchanale”, an odd ballet about this “Mad King”
Ludwig
$2000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Aurora’s Wedding”, part of this Tchaikovsky ballet, is often presented as a separate ballet
“Sleeping Beauty”
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The Ballets Russes was dissolved after the 1929 death of this great Russian impresario
Sergei Diaghilev
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| It’s the footwear in the title of Dennis Nahat’s rock ‘n’ roll ballet, danced to Elvis Presley’s greatest hits
“Blue Suede Shoes”
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The ballet “For Bird, with Love” was Alvin Ailey’s tribute to this jazz musician whose nickname was “Bird”
Charlie Parker
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Marguerite and Armand” was choreographed for Margot Fonteyn & this handsome partner
Rudolf Nureyev
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Traditionally, the ballerina plays the mother & the sweetheart of this young outlaw in the 1938 ballet named for him
Billy the Kid
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Eliot Feld’s ballet “Harbinger” features music by this “Peter and the Wolf” composer
Sergei Prokofiev
$100 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The Black Swan Pas De Deux is one of the most famous dances in this ballet
Swan Lake
$None ||| Category: BALLET ||| Feeling the need for ballets about American life, this dancer choreographed his first ballet in 1944
Jerome Robbins
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This disciple is the title character in Jose Limon’s biblical ballet “The Traitor”
Judas Iscariot
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Prince Ivan falls in love with an enchanted Tsarevna in Stravinsky’s ballet about this magical bird
“The Firebird”
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This fairy tale ballet often features fairies of the 4 seasons as well as a fairy godmother
“Cinderella”
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Angel Corella of Spain is one of the “muy caliente” male stars of this U.S. company known as ABT for short
American Ballet Theatre
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The 1938 ballet named for this famous outlaw features a musical gun battle
“Billy The Kid”
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This heroine’s stepsisters try to squeeze their big feet into her glass slipper, but they don’t fit
Cinderella
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This late ballet star of Tartar ancestry was Margot Fonteyn’s best-known partner
Rudolf Nureyev
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This famous Isaac of high fashion designed the costumes for the 1995 ballet “Jump Start”
Isaac Mizrahi
$1500 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Aaron Copland’s score for this ballet, heard here, was inspired by American folk tunes:
“Rodeo”
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The erotic ending of this great dancer’s 1912 ballet “L’Apres-Midi D’Un Faune” created a scandal
Vaslav Nijinsky
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This niece of Cecil B. De Mille choreographed a ballet based on John Ford’s classic film “The Informer”
Agnes De Mille
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This “West Side Story” composer wrote the music for Jerome Robbins’ ballet “Dybbuk”
Leonard Bernstein
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Kirk Douglas may know that the ballet about this gladiator who led a slave revolt includes an orgy scene
Spartacus
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Called “the first psychedelic ballet”, Robert Joffrey’s “Astarte” premiered in this decade
the 1960s
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This Russian composer’s favorite of his own ballets was “The Sleeping Beauty”
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| We have a “hunch” you’ll know Antoine Coulon was the first to dance this role in “La Esmeralda”
Quasimodo
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Jules Perrot’s short ballet “Pas de Quatre” requires this many ballerinas
4
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In 1958 this grande dame of British ballet was acclaimed for playing a water sprite in “Ondine”
Margot Fonteyn
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This “Rodeo” choreographer’s 1940 ballet “Black Ritual” featured an all-black cast
Agnes de Mille
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The dramatic ballet “Las Hermanas” is based on this Spaniard’s play “The House of Bernarda Alba”
Federico Garcia Lorca
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This duke of jazz composed an original score for Alvin Ailey’s brilliant modern ballet “The River”
Duke Ellington
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Concerto Barocco” is danced to a concerto for 2 violins by this great Baroque composer
J.S. Bach
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In 1998 she performed with the Kirov Ballet for the first time since her defection 18 years earlier
Natalia Makarova
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Eugene Loring played the devil in this female choreographer’s 1941 ballet “Three Virgins and a Devil”
Agnes de Mille
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| George Balanchine created 10 ballets for this impresario’s Ballets Russes
Sergei Diaghilev
$100 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The Royal Danish Ballet has been based in this capital city for more than 200 years
Copenhagen
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Part I of the ballet “Jewels” is named for these green gems; Part II is called “Rubies”
Emeralds
$300 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Noblissima Visione” is a dramatic, stylized ballet about this saint of Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Igor Youskevitch was noted for playing Stanley in the ballet version of this Tennessee Williams play
“A Streetcar Named Desire”
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| When Robert Helpmann’s “Hamlet” ballet premiered in 1942, Margot Fonteyn danced this ingenue role
Ophelia
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In 1991 ballerina Darci Kistler married this U.S. ballet company’s director, Peter Martins
New York City Ballet
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Princess Aurora pricks her finger on a spindle in act one of this 1890 ballet
“Sleeping Beauty”
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Jerome Robbins’ ballet “Dances At A Gathering” is danced to piano pieces by this Polish-French composer
Frederic Chopin
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Originally, Prokofiev wanted this Shakespearean ballet to end with both lovers alive & dancing
“Romeo & Juliet”
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Meaning “step-for-two”, it’s a dance duet that includes an entre, an adagio, two solos & a coda
a pas de deux
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Jerome Robbins’ ballet “In The Night” is danced to several of this Polish-born composer’s famous nocturnes
Frederic Chopin
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Swedish dancer Elsa Marianne von Rosen created the title role in this ballet based on a Strindberg play
Miss Julie
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| He stunned Paris with his dazzling performance in the Ballet Russes “La Sylphide” in 1909
Vaclav Nijinsky
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This charismatic Tartar played Dr. Copelius in “Coppelia” in 1990, three years before his untimely death
Rudolf Nureyev
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| George Skibine’s ballet “Tragedy at Verona” is based on this play
“Romeo And Juliet”
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| It’s believed this Christmas classic is the most frequently performed ballet in history
“The Nutcracker”
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Le Beau Danube” with music by Johann Strauss, is set in a public park in this city
Vienna
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Twyla Tharp’s “Push Comes to Shove” was one of the first American works created for this Russian star
Mikhail Baryshnikov
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| For a 1905 benefit, Michel Fokine created “The Dying Swan” for this Russian ballerina
Anna Pavlova
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In a famous fairy tale ballet, a ragged beggarwoman is really this heroine’s fairy godmother
Cinderella
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The swan maidens in this 1877 ballet are actually young girls under the spell of an evil magician
Swan Lake
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Quasimodo is a leading character in “La Esmeralda”, a ballet based on this classic novel
the Hunchback of Notre Dame
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In 1992, this niece of Cecil B. De Mille choreographed her last ballet “The Other”
Agnes De Mille
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Double Exposure” is a Joe Layton ballet based on this author’s 1891 novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Oscar Wilde
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| As you might expect, “Doo Dah Day” is danced to the music of this composer
Stephen Foster
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| It’s the popular English title of the dramatic Pavlova solo whose French title is simply “Le Cygne”
“The Dying Swan”
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Choreographer Birgit Kolberg based her 1950 ballet “Miss Julie” on an 1888 play by this fellow Swede
August Strindberg
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This ballet about a puppet takes place at the Shrove Tide Fair in old St. Petersburg
“Petrushka”
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Barabao” was the 1st of 10 ballets this Russian choreographed for the Ballets Russes before he moved to the United States
Georges Balanchine
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Act I of this Tchaikovsky ballet is called “The Spell”
“The Sleeping Beauty”
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Slaughter On” this avenue by Balanchine went from Broadway to the NYC Ballet repertory
“10th Avenue”
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Jerome Robbins played Benvolio when Anthony Tudor’s version of this Shakespearean love story premiered in 1943
“Romeo & Juliet”
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In a recent work, one ballerina plays this Russian grand duchess & a woman who thinks she is the grand duchess
“Anastasia”
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In a famous Stravinsky ballet, this title character is in love with a ballerina puppet
“Petruschka”
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Homage to the Queen”, a tribute to her, premiered on her coronation day in 1953
Elizabeth II
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This dancer choreographed a new version of “The Nutcracker” in 1976, a “Turning Point” in his career
Baryshnikov
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The School of American Ballet is the official school of this major metropolitan ballet company
New York (City Ballet)
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This Spanish seducer is attacked by furies at the end of a 1936 ballet
Don Juan
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| First performed in 1905, this very short solo ballet depicts the last minutes in the life of a bird
The Dying Swan
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The 1934 ballet “Balle aux Follies Bergere” is based on one of these by Manet, not on a story
a painting
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The Royal Danish Ballet was founded in 1748 as part of the royal theatre of this city
Copenhagen
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Stravinsky & this Russian-born American choreographer collaborated on several ballets including “Agon”
Georges Balanchine
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Four Moons”, an American Indian ballet, was created for the 60th anniversary of its statehood in 1967
Oklahoma
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Frederick Ashton’s ballet “The Lady of Shalott” is based on this man’s poem of the same name
Alfred Lord Tennyson
$100 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Roland Petit danced with this city’s Opera Ballet before he co-founded the Ballets des Champs-Elysees
Paris
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Coincidentally, Jerome Robbins’ ballet “Fanfare” debuted on the day she was crowned in 1953
Queen Elizabeth
$300 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In the 1960s Maya Plisetskaya succeeded Galina Ulanova as prima ballerina of this company
the Bolshoi
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Part of John Cranko’s ballet based on this Shakespeare play is set in Petruchio’s home
Taming of the Shrew
$500 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In Frederick Ashton’s ballet, 4 fairies help this fairy tale heroine get dressed for the ball
Cinderella
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| At the beginning of this Nijinsky ballet, a faun is playing his flute
Afternoon of a Faun
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The chorus or ensemble of a ballet company is called this “de ballet”
the corps de ballet
$5000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| When this ballet premiered in 1890, Carlotta Brianza danced the role of Princess Aurora
The Sleeping Beauty
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| He wrote the music for the Western-themed ballets “Billy the Kid” & “Rodeo”
Aaron Copland
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Giselle kills herself with one of these weapons which belongs to her noble lover, Albrecht
a sword
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Chiang Ch’ing, this leader’s wife, staged the Chinese ballet “The Red Detachment of Women”
Mao Zedong
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In 1968 the Bolshoi premiered its ballet about this Roman slave revolt leader
Spartacus
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Mia Slavenska danced the role of Blanche DuBois at the premiere of this ballet in 1952
A Streetcar Named Desire
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Martha Graham danced the lead in the first U.S. production of “The Rite of Spring” by this composer
Stravinsky
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Sir Frederick Ashton was principal choreographer of this British company 1935-70
the Royal Ballet
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In French the name of this ballet with a Biblical theme is “Le Fils Prodigue”
The Prodigal Son
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| A classical production of “Les Sylphides” features tutus of this color
White
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The ballet based on his “Unfinished Symphony” is a romantic pas de deux
Franz Schubert
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The title character of this Stravinsky ballet is part musical bird & part beautiful woman
The Firebird
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| A roper & a wrangler compete for the love of a cowgirl in this Agnes de Mille ballet
Rodeo
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In this fairy tale ballet, the heroine loses one of her slippers
“Cinderella”
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This ballet includes a ball at the house of the Capulets
“Romeo And Juliet”
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In a Tchaikovsky ballet, Prince Siegfried goes hunting for these animals & falls in love with 1 of them
Swan
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| 1 of the 2 leading ballet companies in the Soviet Union
Bolshoi & Kirov
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Nijinsky’s ballet “The Afternoon Of” one of these animals premiered in 1912
A Faun
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Tamara Karsavina was the 1st to dance the role of this Stravinsky bird, in 1910
The Firebird
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This dame, born Margaret Hookham, has been called “The greatest British ballerina of all time”
Margot Fonteyn
$2000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| (AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE): Tchaikovsky’s favorite of his own ballets, it features a wedding & the following:
“Sleeping Beauty” (“Sleeping Beauty Waltz”)
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Mental illness ended his career after he choreographed his last ballet, “Till Eulenspiegel”
Vaclav Nijinsky
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Balanchine’s ballet “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme” is based on a 17th c. play by this Frenchman
Moliere
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This Canadian province is home to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet
Manitoba
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| “Rond de jambe” means a rotary movement of this body part, on the floor or in the air
the leg
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Helena & Hermia are characters in “The Dream”, a ballet based on this Shakespearean play
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| In 1985 this princess revived the Monte Carlo Ballet, as her mother had wished
Princess Caroline of Monaco
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| This “Regal” ballet company was formerly known as the Sadler’s Wells Ballet
the Royal Ballet
$100 ||| Category: BALLET ||| A “pas de chat” is a leap that resembles the movement of this animal
a cat
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Geo. Balanchine choreographed this ballet based on the biblical story of a child who returned home
The Prodigal Son
$300 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Russian dancer who was the choreographer & star of the 1912 production of “The Afternoon of a Faun”
Nijinsky
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| The group of dancers in a ballet troupe who perform as an ensemble
the corps de ballet
$500 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Tchaikovsky wrote the music to 3 ballets: “The Sleeping Beauty”, “The Nutcracker” & this
Swan Lake
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| It’s what the mysterious Drosselmeyer gives to Clara in the ballet of the same name
The Nutcracker
$400 ||| Category: BALLET ||| To give a happy ending to this Prokofiev ballet, the duck can be removed from the predator’s stomach
Peter and the Wolf
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| He was born Georgi Melitonovich Balanchivadze
George Ballanchine
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Creating the title role in “Le Spectre de la Rose”, this Russian’s great exit leap became legend
Najinsky
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Ballet stars Mikhail Baryshnikov & Leslie Browne were both up for Oscars for this 1977 film
The Turning Point
$200 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Stanley Kowalski trips the light fantastic in the ballet version of this play
A Streetcar Named Desire
$600 ||| Category: BALLET ||| Before they were ballets, “Coppelia” & “The Nutcracker” were “Tales of” his
Hoffman
$800 ||| Category: BALLET ||| On July 3, 1986, Mikhail Baryshnikov danced for the 1st time as one of these
American
$1000 ||| Category: BALLET ||| L. Bernstein wrote music for ballet “Fancy Free” & for this musical about sailors it inspired
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