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J Ballet
Fine Arts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| She was a ballerina with the Kirov before defecting to the West | Natalia Makarova |
| She was a muse for George Balanchine as Dulcinea in Don Quixote | Suzanne Farrell |
| This Danish born dancer is the head of the New York City Ballet | Peter Martins |
| She is the British born ballerina who used to partner with Nureyev and became a dame | Margot Fonteyn |
| This Osage dancer was born in Oklahoma was also once married to George Balanchine | Maria Tallchief |
| She joined the Paris Opera Ballet and then helped her sister Maria start the Chicago City Ballet | Marjorie Tallchief |
| Robert Joffrey founded his own troupe in this city | Chicago |
| Maya Plisetskaya was the prima ballerina for this company after Galina Ulanova | Bolshoi |
| French choreographer who created The Dying Swan for Anna Pavlova | Michel Fokine |
| This ballet company was founded in 1948 by George Balanchine | New York City Ballet |
| This dancer lost her two children in an auto accident before dying by accidental scarf strangulation in 1927 | Isadora Duncan |
| This impresario founder of the Ballet Russes in 1909 worked with Nijinsky and Balanchine | Sergei Diaghilev |
| The Dying Swan was created for this Russian ballerina who also had swans at her home in London | Anna Pavlova |
| She choreographed unusual works such as Deuce Coupe | Twyla Tharp |
| This Tatar was with the Kirov until 1961 when he defected and partnered with Fonteyn and was director of the Paris Opera Ballet | Rudolf Nureyev |
| The Marlinsky Theater in St Petersburg hosts this ballet company | Kirov |
| At Teatralnaya Square in Moscow you can see this company which takes its name from Russian for "big" | Bolshoi |
| One of these, from the French for “throw”, can be a “grand” or “petit” leap from one foot to the other | jete |
| Literally French for "beating", this movement of the leg may be grand, petit or frappe | battement |
| Ballet pose named after a peninsula | Arabesque |
| French term for a spin, it's a full complete turn of the body on one foot | Pirouette |
| A dance for two | Pas de deux |
| Bending of the knee, from the French | Plie |
| Russian-born American choreographer who was related to Balanchivadze composer family and who worked with Stravinsky and Diaghilev | George Balanchine |
| He choreographed the "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" sequence for the Rodgers & Hart musical "On Your Toes" | George Balanchine |
| He was born in Kiev in 1890, went insane in 1919, and died in London in 1950. | Vaslav Nijinsky |
| He performed from 1909-1913 with Ballets Russes in The Afternoon of a Faun and the Rite of Spring | Vaslav Nijinsky |
| This Centralia, WA born choreographer produced avant garde works, usually with John Cage | Merce Cunningham |
| This African American choreographer created Revelations and other jazz influenced works at his American Dance Theater | Alvin Ailey |
| He created ballets on American life such as West Side Story and Fancy Free and has worked with NYC ballet | Jerome Robbins |
| Nicknamed Misha, he defected in Toronto in 1974 and starred in the movie the Turning Point and in Sex and the City | Mikhail Baryshnikov |
| He founded the White Oak Dance Project and is a former director of American Ballet Theater and Kirov dancer | Mikhail Baryshnikov |
| The "Contraction & Release" method was associated with this female doyenne choreographer of Appalachian Spring | Martha Graham |
| This female choreographer worked for a century and was a descendant of Miles Standish | Martha Graham |
| Characters in this 1942 ballet include the head wrangler & the champion roper and a cowgirl was created by Agnes de Mille | Rodeo |
| She choreographed 3 virgins and a devil, the informer, brigadoon, oklahoma, and fall river legend | Agnes de Mille |
| Vernon & Irene Castle popularized the "hesitation" style of this ballroom dance | waltz |
| Famous tap dancer who danced with Shirley Temple and had the nickname Bojangles | Bill Robinson |
| Tamara Karsavina was the 1st to dance the role of this Stravinsky bird, in 1910 | The Firebird |
| 1948 ballet choreographed by Frederick Ashton | Cinderella |
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| This dance was brought by the gypsies to Andalusia in Spain; castanets were not traditionally used in the dance | Flamenco |
| The fastest dancer in this style is Solero De Jerez, who attained 16 heel taps per second in 1967 | Flamenco |
| Poland's national anthem is in the style of this dance, named for a region of eastern Poland. Chopin wrote some | Mazurka |
| This Irish star isn't just the "Lord of the Dance, he's got "Feet of Flames | Michael Flatley |
| This Seattle, WA founder of an American ballet troupe who was born Abdullah Jaffa Bey Khan created the 1st psychadelic ballet Astarte in the 60s | Robert Joffrey |
| "Dancing on My Grave" & "The Shape of Love" are autobiographical works by this New York City ballet dancer | Gelsey Kirkland |
| Choreographer Rudolf von Laban developed a widely used system of this so you know when to do a fouette | Dance notation |
| This ballerina wrote a biography of George Balanchine after taking off her "red shoes | Moira Shearer |
| Famous 19th century ballerina created the title role in "Giselle" in 1841 | Carlotta Grisi |
| This 18th century ballerina is remembered for shortening her skirt to calf length | Marie Camargo |
| It's the "little" French surname of choreographer Roland of the Ballets de Paris | Roland Petit |
| In 1801, Tsar Paul I brought this Swedish man who introduced flesh-colored tights, to St Petersburg as Ballet Master | Charles Didelot |
| French for on the toes | sur les pointes |
| This Brazilian music style & dance of the 1960s combined samba & cool jazz | bossa nova |
| This dance originated in Cuba as a variation of the mambo | cha-cha |
| Cuba is where you can find the Kings of this | mambo |
| Xavier Cugat was the king of this Cuban dance with subtle hip movements | rumba |
| Popular in the 1940's, the name of this Brazilian dance style means "to rub navels together" and spun off Carioca | samba |
| Arthur Mitchell co-founded this theater in 1968 in response to the death of Martin Luther King Jr | Dance theater of Harlem |
| In a 1935 ballet based on this mythical person, a dancer leaps toward the sun, then crashes to the stage | Icarus |
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