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Ballet
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Famous female dancer and choreographer of the Russian Ballet Russes? | Anna Pavlova |
| Famous African-American ballet choreographer. | Alvin Ailey |
| American ballet choreographer known for Times They Are a Changing and Ragtime. | Twyla Tharp |
| Famous male dancer and choreographer of the Russian Ballet Russes? | Vaslav Nijinsky |
| Famous male choreographer known as the man who brought ballet to America when he founded the NYC ballet. | George Balanchine |
| Russian composer of the Rite of Spring and Firebird. | Igor Stravinsky |
| Russian composer of Peter and the Wold and Cinderella. | Sergei Prokofiev |
| American composer of Billy the Kid and Appalachian Spring. | Aaron Copland |
| Russian composer of Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, and the Nutcracker. | Pyotr Tchaikovsky |
| French "sun king" who began the first ballet company called the Royal Ballet in 1661. | Louis XIV |
| 20th century Russian dancer who fled to the U.S. seeking political asylum. | Mikhail Baryshnikov |