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