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What is the name of Don Quixote's horse (in ballet)? Rosinante, Panza, Napoleon, Marengo |
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Which three-letter name is given to a school of ballet in Vancouver? Foh, Gah, Boh, Goh |
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The Gateway position involves the what being held in front of the body (in ballet)? Head, Legs, Arms, Toes |
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Labanotation ? a system of ballet notation ? was invented by which of these men (in ballet)? Rudolf von Laban, William Forsythe, Paul Dukas, Igor Stravinsky |
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What term is used for a fault in which the dancer turns his foot in from the ankle (in ballet)? Neuf, Faux, Sickling, Sissonne |
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What does ?releve? denote (in ballet)? Lowered, Raised, Front, Sideways |
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What does ?ecarte? denote (in ballet)? Facing the side, Facing the corner, Facing the roof, Facing the audience |
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Lebedinoye ozero is the Russian name for which ballet? Swan Lake, Coppelia, La Sylphide, The Nutcracker |
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The ballet Swan Lake was fashioned from folk tales of which country? Italy, Russia, Greece, England |
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Who choreographed the original production of Swan Lake? Andrew Lloyd Webber, George Balanchine, Marius Petipa, Julius Reisinger |
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Swan Lake premiered in which month of 1877? January, February, April, March |
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At which theatre did Swan Lake premiere? Malyi, Mikhailovski, Novosibirsk, Bolshoi |
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The Russian folk tale The White Duck heavily influenced which major ballet? Coppelia, Swan Lake, Giselle, The Nutcracker |
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What nationality was choreographer Julius Reisinger? German, Russian, Austrian, Czech |
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Name the dancer renowned for his daring ability who died in 1950 (in ballet)? Anna Pavlova, Sergei Diaghilev, Vaslav Nijinsky, Rudolf Nureyev |
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What did dancer Rudolf Nureyev die of in 1993? AIDS, Heart attack, Cancer, Tuberculosis |
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What is the French word for ?four?, used commonly in ballet? Cinq, Seize, Quatre, Un |
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In which French city was Marius Petipa born (in ballet)? Nice, Paris, Marseilles, Lyon |
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Doch Faraona is the Russian title of which ballet? The Pharaoh's Daughter, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Swan Lake |
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Who composed the music for The Pharaoh's Daughter (in ballet)? Igor Stravinsky, Cesare Pugni, Carolina Rosati, Paul Dukas |