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Which Stravinsky ballet features three puppets as the central characters? The Rite of Spring, Coppelia, Petrushka, Orpheus |
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Which Tchaikovsky ballet features the ?Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy?? The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Gayane |
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Which Tchaikovsky ballet features the villainous Lord Rothbart? Gayane, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake |
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What year was La Bayadere first performed (in ballet)? 1880, 1877, 1879, 1878 |
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The role of Nikiya in La Bayadere was created as a benefit performance for whom (in ballet)? Anna Pavlova, Irina Baronova, Ekaterina Vazem, Natalia Bessmertnova |
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Who choreographed the ballets Swan Lake and Don Quixote, among others? Marius Petipa, Jerome Robbins, Martha Graham, Bob Fosse |
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In which country is La Bayadere set (in ballet)? India, China, Turkey, Italy |
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Which part of La Bayadere is often performed on its own (in ballet)? Spirits and ghosts, Spirits of the maidens, Wedding ceremony, Kingdom of the shades |
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What moniker was given to the three young principal dancers of the 1930s Ballet Russes? Baby Ballerinas, High Ballerinas, Lady Ballerinas, Male Ballerinas |
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Which disease did George Balanchine die of (in ballet)? Pneumonia, Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, Cancer, AIDS |
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In 1972 the New York City Ballet offered an eight-day tribute to which composer? Maurice Ravel, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Frideric Handel, Igor Stravinsky |
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Who wrote the 1938 ballet Billy the Kid? Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Leon Minkus, Claude Debussy |
| 13 |
Complete this title of a Domenico Scarlatti ballet: ?The Good-Humoured...?. Women, Ladies, Girls, Guys |
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A John McCabe ballet shares its name with which English monarch? Edward II, James II, Richard II, Henry II |
| 15 |
The term arabesque refers to one leg raised behind and what extended (in ballet)? Foot, Neck, Head, Arm |
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What does the word Bolshoi mean in English (in ballet)? Dance, Fierce, Small, Great |
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What was the original name of the Bolshoi Theatre? Petrovsky, Malyi, Kandinsky, Arnovsky |
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In what year was the Bolshoi Theatre opened? 1825, 1829, 1827, 1831 |
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Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme was based on a work by which composer (in ballet)? Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Strauss |
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How many ritual dances are there in The Midsummer Marriage (in ballet)? Five, Seven, Four, Six |
