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| show | DIAGHILEV
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| STAR DANCER OF THE BALLETS RUSSES. HIS MOST NOTED PERFORMANCE WAS IN "RITE OF SPRING" WHICH CAUSED A RIOT AT ITS PREMIERE... | show 🗑
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| show | RUDOLF NUREYEV
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| "APPALACHIAN SPRING" IS HER MOST WELL-KNOWN WORK... | show 🗑
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| show | JEROME ROBBINS
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| show | PLIE'
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| A JUMP IN WHICH ONE LEG IS THROWN TO THE SIDE... | show 🗑
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| EXTENSION OF ONE LEG STRAIGHT BACK 90 DEGREES WITH SHOULDERS SQUARED... | show 🗑
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| show | PIROUETTE
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| A DANCE FOR TWO... | show 🗑
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| show | 5 POSITIONS
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| AFTER A CAREER W/ THE BALLET RUSEE DE MONTE CARLO, AND THE NYC BALLET, SHE FOUNDED THE CHICAGO CITY BALLET... | show 🗑
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| HIS WORKS SUCH AS "REVELATIONS" AND "CRY" BLENDED AFRICAN, JAZZ, AND MODERN DANCE TECHNIQUES & WERE PERFORMED AT HIS AMERICAN DANCE THEATER... | show 🗑
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| show | MERCE CUNNINGHAM
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| show | KIROV
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| show | GEORGE BALANCHINE
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| show | MICHEL FOKINE
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| THIS CURRENT LEADER OF THE NYC BALLET BEGAN HIS CAREER WITH THE ROYAL DANISH BALLET... | show 🗑
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| AFTER DANCING WITH THE NYC BALLET SINCE THE 1950S, ARTHUR MITCHELL FOUNDED THIS BLACK CLASSICAL DANCE COMPANY IN 1968... | show 🗑
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| HER WORK HAS INCLUDED CREATING IDIOSYNCRATIC MODERN PIECES LIKE "DEUCE COUPE", CHOREOGRAPHING THE MOVIE "HAIR", AND DIRECTING BROADWAY'S "SINGING IN THE RAIN"... | show 🗑
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| HER BALLETS ROOTED IN AMERICAN FOLKLORE INCLUDE "RODEO" AND "FALL RIVER LEGEND". HER BROADWAY CHOREOGRAPHING INCLUDED "OKLAHOMA!"... | show 🗑
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| BORN ALICIA MARKS IN LONDON, SHE RUSSIANIZED HER NAME TO THIS TO SEEM MORE EXOTIC... | show 🗑
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| THIS CHOREOGRAPHER WORKED WITH THE BALLET RUSSES BEFORE FORMING THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF BALLET IN 1934.... | show 🗑
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| show | JOFFREY BALLET
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| show | JOFFREY BALLET
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| show | RUTH ST. DENIS & TED SHAWN(DENISHAWN)
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| BALANCHINE'S 1949 PRODUCTION OF "THE FIREBIRD" MADE THIS WOMAN, HIS WIFE AT THE TIME, A STAR... | show 🗑
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| show | ANTONY TUDOR
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| show | MARTHA GRAHAM & AGNES DE MILLE
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| THE ROYAL BALLET'S KENNETH MACMILLAN CHOREOGRAPHED A 1966 FILM STARRING NUREYEV & FONTEYN AS THESE LOVERS FROM SHAKESPEARE | show 🗑
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| CHOREOGRAPHER RUDOLF VON LABAN DEVELOPED A WIDELY USED SYSTEM OF THIS... | show 🗑
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| NIJINSKY, MASSINE & WIGMAN ALL JUMPED AT THE CHANCE TO CHOREOGRAPH THIS 1913 STRAVINSKY WORK | show 🗑
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| show | MARTHA GRAHAM
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| show | PETER MARTINS
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| show | METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE
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| THIS MODERN DANCER CREATED OVER 170 WORKS; HER CAREER SPANNED THE CENTURY | show 🗑
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| show | BUSBY BERKELEY
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| HE CONCEIVED, DIRECTED, & CHOREOGRAPHED THE MUSICAL WHICH INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING: "TONIGHT, TONIGHT, THE WORLD IS WILD AND BRIGHT..." | show 🗑
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| IN THE ORIGINAL 1942 PRODUCTION OF "RODEO", SHE DANCED THE ROLE OF THE COWGIRL | show 🗑
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| show | SWAN LAKE
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| show | ADAM AND EVE
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| show | SLEEPING BEAUTY
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| A GOLDEN BIRD PECKS A KING TO DEATH IN "LE COQ D'OR" BY THIS HYPENATED RUSSIAN COMPOSER | show 🗑
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| THIS RUSSIAN WORD FOR "BIG" IS ALSO THE NAME OF A BIG BALLET COMPANY | show 🗑
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| THE PERSON PLAYING THIS INSTRUMENT IS RIGHT UP ON STAGE IN "DANCES AT A GATHERING", TO MUSIC BY CHOPIN | show 🗑
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| THE ALBUM "FIEDLER'S FAVORITE" THESE INCLUDES THE ONE OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS | show 🗑
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| MANUEL DE FALLA'S "EL SOMBRERO DE TRES PICOS" TRANSLATES TO THIS IN ENGLISH | show 🗑
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| ELTON JOHN WROTE THE MUSIC FOR THE BROADWAY SHOW IN WHICH A WORKING CLASS BRITISH LAD DREAMS OF BEING A BALLET DANCER | show 🗑
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| THE PAS DE CHAT OWES ITS NAME TO THE LIKENESS OF THE MOVEMENT TO THE LEAP OF ONE OF THESE | show 🗑
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| show | TOUR DE FORCE
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| THE NUMBER OF FOLKS WHO SEE THE BALLET, OR THE HEELS-TOGETHER, TOES OUT BASIC ABILITY SEEN IN FIRST POSITION | show 🗑
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| show | LINE
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| A BALLET DANCER ASKED TO DO A MOVEMENT EN CLOCHE IS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE ONE OF THESE | show 🗑
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| show | LENINGRAD (ST. PETERSBURG)
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| show | BALLET
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| HE COMPOSED THE MUSIC FOR THE BALLET "GHOST TOWN" 4 YEARS BEFORE HE TEAMED UP WITH OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN | show 🗑
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| "FLOTEZART" IS THE FANCIFUL TITLE OF A BALLET DANCED TO HIS FLUTE MUSIC | show 🗑
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| show | VERDI
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| show | BEETHOVEN
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| ORIGINALLY TITLED "LE PALAIS DE CRISTAL", "SYMPHONY IN C" IS DANCED TO MUSIC BY THIS "CARMEN" COMPOSER | show 🗑
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| show | THE CEILING
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| show | DALI
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| show | RAY CHARLES
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| show | ANNA PAVLOVA
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| IN 1957 THIS SISTER OF MARIA TALLCHIEF JOINED THE PARIS OPERA BALLET AS AN ETOILE, THE FIRST AMERICAN SO HONORED | show 🗑
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| IN MANY VERSIONS OF THIS CLASSIC HOLIDAY BALLET, CLARA RIDES OFF TO THE KINGDOM OF SWEETS IN A MAGICAL SLEIGH | show 🗑
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| "LA CROQUEUSE DE DIAMANTS" IS ABOUT A WOMAN WHO EATS THESE LUXURIOUS TITLE ITEMS | show 🗑
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| A HIGH SCHOOL IS ONE OF THE SETTINGS FOR "BLUE SUEDE SHOES", A BALLET DANCED TO THIS SINGER'S HITS | show 🗑
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| show | WEST SIDE STORY
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| TEENS ARE TOUCHED BY THE BALLET ABOUT THIS BIBLICAL KID WHO RUNS OFF BUT RETURNS HOME | show 🗑
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| THIS BALLET STAR AND CARRIE'S LOVE INTEREST ON "SEX AND THE CITY" TURNED 61 IN FEB. | show 🗑
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| show | A PLOT
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| show | FIORELLO LA GUARDIA
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| show | EURYDICE
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| show | THE FIREBIRD
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| show | FAUST
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| WHEN BALANCHINE CHOREOGRAPHED THIS BALLET IN 1965, HE PLAYED THE TITLE ROLE AND SUZANNE FARRELL WAS HIS DULCINEA | show 🗑
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| show | ARABESQUE
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| show | ABOVE THE HEAD
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| show | 2ND POSTION
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| show | PIROUETTE
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| show | JETE'
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| show | THE DYING SWAN
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| show | AARON COPLAND
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| show | PICASSO
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| show | SANSKRIT
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| show | BOLSHOI
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| MARGOT FONTEYN FIRST DANCED ONSTAGE WITH HIM IN 1962 AT COVENT GARDEN IN A PERFORMANCE OF "GISELLE" | show 🗑
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| show | NIJINSKI
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| show | UGLY STEPSISTERS
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| TCHAIKOVSKY SIMULTANEOUSLY COMPOSED EARLY SKETCHES FOR THE "PATHETIQUE" SYMPHONY AND THIS LIVELY BALLET SUITE | show 🗑
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| I HAVE TO SEE THE NYC BALLET'S PRODUCTION OF THIS; THE CHRISTMAS TREE GROWS ABOUT 40' HIGH AND WEIGHS A TON! | show 🗑
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| ACT II OF "SPARTACUS" IS SET ON THIS ANCIENT HIGHWAY | show 🗑
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| I LOVE THE MUSIC OF THIS POLISH-FRENCH COMPOSER, SO WE MUST SEE "IN THE NIGHT", WHICH FEATURES HIS NOCTURNES | show 🗑
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| show | AGNES DE MILLE
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| IN 2008 THIS MOSCOW BALLET COMPANY ANNOUNCED THAT YURI BURLAKAU HAD BEEN APPROVED ITS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | show 🗑
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| show | CHOREOGRAPHER
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| THIS COMPOSER OF THE BALLET "RODEO" SCORED AN OSCAR FOR THIS SCORE FROM "THE HEIRESS" | show 🗑
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| show | LIZZIE BORDEN
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| show | THE FIREBIRD
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| THE FIRST BALLET "BALLET COMIQUE DE LA REINE" WAS COMMISSIONED BY THIS FRENCH QUEEN FOR HER SISTER'S WEDDING IN 1581 | show 🗑
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| show | SLEEPING BEAUTY
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| THIS RELATIVE OF A FAMED FILM DIRECTOR BEGAN CHOREOGRAPHING FOR THE BALLET THEATRE BEFORE IT WAS "AMERICAN" | show 🗑
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| show | TCHAIKOVSKY
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| show | KIROV
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| show | SWAN LAKE
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| show | ELEPHANTS
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| IN TITLES OF BALLETS, THIS NUMBER PRECEDES "SEASONS", "BAGATELLES", AND "NORWEIGIAN MOONDS" | show 🗑
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| JOHN CRANKO CHOREOGRAPHED A BALLET CALLED "HARLEQUIN IN" THIS MONTH | show 🗑
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| MODELS, GENDARMES, AND A TOUR DE FRANCE CYCLIST APPEAR IN THIS GERSHWIN WORK | show 🗑
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| show | THE FIREBIRD
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| show | BILLY THE KID
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| THE NYC BALLET'S FIRST VISIT TO THIS CITY'S FAMOUS FESTIVAL INSPIRED THE BALLET "SCOTCH SYMPHONY" | show 🗑
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| show | SPRING
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| show | MARIA TALLCHIEF
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| show | THE CAMELLIAS
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| show | DIANA
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| show | DIAGHILEV
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| show | CAROLINE
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| THE FIRST BALLET, "BALLET COMIQUE DE LA REINE", WAS PRESENTED AT THE COURT OF THIS MEDICI QUEEN OF FRANCE IN 1581 | show 🗑
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| THIS PRINCE WHO HAS 2 DAUGHTERS, BECAME PATRON OF THE ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET IN 2001 | show 🗑
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| THIS CURRENT QUEEN IS A BIG FAN OF BALLET, AND THE NETHERLANDS DANCE THEATRE OFTEN ACCOMPANIES HER ON STATE VISITS | show 🗑
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| AS A FAMOUS ONE OF THESE ARTISTES, MARIE CAMARGO IS REMEMBERED FOR SHORTENING HER SKIRT TO CALF LENGTH | show 🗑
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| show | SUGARPLUM FAIRY
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| 1949 SAW THE FIRST BALLET VERSION OF THIS OPERATIC BIZET WORK THAT FEATURES DON JOSE AND A TOREADOR | show 🗑
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| show | QUASIMODO
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| show | SLEEPING BEAUTY
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| show | PHAEDRA
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| show | ANASTASIA
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| show | VIENNA
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| THE 2000 BALLET "TODO BUENOS AIRES" FEATURES DIFERENT INTERPRETATIONS OF THIS SENSUAL BALLROOM DANCE | show 🗑
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| show | HORSE
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| show | MAURICE SENDAK
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| show | THE TEMPEST
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| show | NUREYEV
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| show | JOHANN STRAUSS
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| IN 1966 SHE & NURYEV DANCED IN A MOVIE VERSION THE BALLET "ROMEO & JULIET" | show 🗑
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| show | CAN-CAN
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| EVERY "PYSHO" KNOWS THAT MATTHEW BOURNE'S BALLET "DEADLY SERIOUS" IS AN HOMAGE TO THIS FILM DIRECTOR | show 🗑
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| show | NASCAR
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| show | A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
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| show | CHARLIE PARKER
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| show | CINDERELLA
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| IN THE CLASSIC BALLET BASED ON THIS FAIRY TALE, CARABOSSE IS THE EVIL FAIRY WHO CONJURES UP THAT SPINDLE CURSE | show 🗑
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| THE TEMPS DE POISSON, A JUMP WITH ARCHED BACK AND CROSSED FEET, LITERALLY MEANS "TIME OF" THIS ANIMAL | show 🗑
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| show | SPAIN
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| A FLURRY OF BALLERINAS PERFORMS THE "WALTZ OF THE SNOWFLAKES" IN THIS BELOVED BALLET | show 🗑
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| show | BALLET DANCER
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| show | SLEEPING BEAUTY
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| show | THE RITE OF SPRING
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| THIS ALLITERATIVE JEROME ROBBINS BALLET FOCUSES ON 3 SAILORS ON SHORE LEAVE IN NEW YORK | show 🗑
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| PAT GARRETT IS ONE OF THE ROLES IN THIS AMERICAN BALLET | show 🗑
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| show | DRACULA
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| show | THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
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| show | THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
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| show | THE BROTHERS KARAMOZOV
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| show | WILLIAM FAULKNER
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| show | BALLET
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| show | JOFFREY
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| A HOFFMANN TALE TITLE LOST THE WORDS "AND THE MOUSE KING" WHEN IT BECAME THIS TCHAIKOVSKY BALLET | show 🗑
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| IN BALLET, ONE OF THESE, FROM THE FRENCH FOR "THROW", CAN BE A "GRAND" OR "PETIT" LEAP FROM ONE FOOT TO THE OTHER | show 🗑
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| show | AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
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| YURI VLADIMIROV DANCED THE ROLE OF THIS NOTORIOUS 16TH-C. TSAR IN THE 1975 PREMIERE OF THE BALLET ABOUT HIM | show 🗑
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| show | ST. PETERSBURG
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| A GAZELLE IS A GRACEFUL ANIMAL; THIS 1841 BALLET HAS BEEN CALLED "THE HAMLET OF THE DANCE" | show 🗑
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| MEN IN TUTUS PORTRAY BALLERINAS LIKE TATIANA YOUBETYABOOTSKAYA IN LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE THIS RIVIERA RESORT | show 🗑
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| THIS ZIEGFIELD STAR DONNED A TUTU FOR ZANY BALLET SPOOFS, WHICH INSPIRED "THE SWAN" NUMBER IN THE FILM "FUNNY GIRL" | show 🗑
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| show | BARYSHNIKOV
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| SINCE 1905 IT'S BEEN DYING...STILL FLUTTERING...DEAD! | show 🗑
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| THIS OUTLAW PIROUETTES TO COPLAND'S MUSIC BEFORE HE SHOOTS PEOPLE | show 🗑
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| SHE GETS A NUTCRACKER FOR CHRISTMAS | show 🗑
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| GOAT-LEGGED NIJINSKY CREATURE ON A SUNNY AFTERNOON | show 🗑
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| show | THE CORSAIR
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| YOU MAY TAKE A "GANDER" AT THE JEROME ROBBINS BALLET NAMED FOR THIS NURSERY RHYMSTER | show 🗑
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| show | DON QUIXOTE
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| show | SWAN LAKE
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| THERE'S A DUCK IN THE BALLET BASED ON THIS COMPOSER'S "PETER AND THE WOLF" | show 🗑
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| show | BEATRIX POTTER
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| show | SWEDEN
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| IN THE EARLY 1890S, BEFORE HE WAS THE CZAR, HE WAS IN A SPIN OVER BALLERINA MATHILDE KSCHESSINSKA | show 🗑
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| show | LOUIS XIV
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| show | QUEEN MARGRETHE
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| show | PROKOFIEV
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| IN 1982 HE CHOREOGRAPHED HIS FINAL BALLET, A NEW VERSION OF STRAVINSKY'S "VARIATIONS FOR ORCHESTRA" | show 🗑
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| THE BALLET "LES PATINEURS" FOCUSES ON THIS ATLETIC PASTIME, WITH THE DANCERS GLIDING BY IN WINTRY SETTING | show 🗑
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| IN PART II OF THE BALLET "JEWELS", THE DANCERS DRESS LIKE THESE RED GEMS | show 🗑
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| show | SABRE DANCE
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| show | TUTU
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| show | CINDERELLA
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| show | THE NUTCRACKER
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| THE ROLES OF ODETTE AND ODILE ARE OFTEN PERFORMED BY THE SAME BALLERINA IN THIS BALLET | show 🗑
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| AGNES DE MILLE'S SUCCESS WITH THIS 1942 COPLAND BALLET LED TO HER ASSIGNMENT AS THE CHOREOGRAPHER FOR "OKLAHOMA!" | show 🗑
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| WITH MUSIC BY STRAVINSKY, THIS BALLET TELLS OF A CLOWN PUPPET WHO GETS HIS HEART BROKEN, DIES AND BECOMES A GHOST | show 🗑
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| MODERN DANCE BEGAN AS A REBELLION AGAINST THE ARTIFICE AND FORMALITY OF THIS CLASSIC FORM OF DANCE | show 🗑
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| IN THE 1940S AND 1950S GALINA ULANOVA WAS THE CHIEF BALLERINA FOR THIS COMPANY FORMED ALMOST 200 YEARS EARLIER | show 🗑
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| APPROPRIATE 1-WORD TITLE OF THE BALANCHINE BALLET IN 3 PARTS: "EMERALDS", "RUBIES", AND "DIAMONDS" | show 🗑
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| show | JEROME ROBBINS
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| IN 1912 THIS RUSSIAN NOT ONLY CHOREOGRAPHED "THE AFTERNOON OF A FAUN", HE DANCED THE PART OF THE FAUN AS WELL | show 🗑
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| show | A BATTEMENT
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| show | THE BIG APPLE
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| show | SCHEHERAZADE
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| show | THE RAKE
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| IN AN 1870 DELIBES BALLET, SWANILDA, THE HEROINE, GETS ALL DOLLED UP TO IMPERSONATE THIS TITLE DOLL | show 🗑
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| show | PETER MARTINS
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| show | GERSHWIN
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| BALANCHINE WROTE THAT HE PLAYED AN ELF IN THIS SHAKESPEARE PLAY LONG BEFORE CREATING A 1962 BALLET BASED ON IT | show 🗑
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| show | J.S. BACH
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| WHEN THE BALLET "PRODIGAL SON" WAS REVIVED IN 1950, THIS WOMAN WHO WAS THEN BALANCHINE'S WIFE, PLAYED THE SIREN | show 🗑
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| show | PUCCINI
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| IGOR YOUSKEVITCH WAS NOTED FOR PLAYING STANLEY IN THE BALLET VERSION OF THIS TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' PLAY | show 🗑
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| show | OPHELIA
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| show | NYC BALLET
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| show | MUSES
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| IN A TCHAIKOVSKY BALLET, PRINCE SIEGRIED GOES HUNTING FOR THESE ANIMALS AND FALLS IN LOVE WITH 1 OF THEM | show 🗑
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| THE 2 LEADING BALLET COMPANIES IN RUSSIA | show 🗑
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| show | MARGOT FONTEYN
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| MENTAL ILLNESS ENDED HIS CAREER AFTER HE CHOREOGRAPHED HIS LAST BALLET, "TILL EULENSPIEGEL" | show 🗑
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| show | MOLIERE
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| show | THE LEG
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| HELENA AND HERMIA ARE CHARACTERS IN "THE DREAM", A BALLET BASED ON THIS SHAKESPEAREAN PLAY | show 🗑
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| THIS "REGAL" BALLET COMPANY WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE SADLER'S WELLS BALLET | show 🗑
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| show | KIROV
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| THE GROUP OF DANCERS IN A BALLET TROUPE WHO PERFORM AS AN ENSEMBLE | show 🗑
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| TCHAIKOVSKY WROTE THE MUSIC TO THESE 3 BALLETS... | show 🗑
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| show | KHACHATURIAN
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| show | THE NUTCRACKER
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| THIS CHARACTER BECAME THE HEROINE OF THE DRAMATIC BALLET "THE MOOR'S PAVANE" | show 🗑
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| show | THE FIREBIRD
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| show | JEROME ROBBINS
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| show | RODEO
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| IN A MICHEL FOKINE BALLET, THIS HEROINE, DAPHNIS' BELOVED, IS KIDNAPPED BY PIRATES | show 🗑
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| MARIA TALLCHIEF PLAYED THIS MYTHOLOGICAL WIFE IN HER HUSBAND GEORGE BALANCHINE'S BALLET "ORPHEUS" | show 🗑
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| SIR THOMAS BEECHAM INTRODUCED THIS IMPRESSARIO'S BALLETS RUSSES TO LONDON IN 1911 | show 🗑
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| show | GLASGOW
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| JEROME ROBBINS' BALLET "DANCES AT A GATHERING", IS DANCED TO PIANO PIECES BY THIS POLISH-FRENCH COMPOSER | show 🗑
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| show | ROMEO AND JULIET
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| MEANING "STEP-FOR-TWO), IT'S A DANCE THAT INCLUDES AN ENTRE, AN ADAGIO, WITH TWO SOLOS AND A CODA | show 🗑
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| show | CHOPIN
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| SWEDISH DANCER ELSA MARIANNE VON ROSEN CREATED THE TITLE ROLE IN THIS BALLET BASED ON A PLAY BY STRINDBERG | show 🗑
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| THIS CHARISMATCI TARTAR PLAYED DR. COPELIUS IN "COPPELIA" IN 1990, 3 YEARS BEFORE HIS UNTIMELY DEATH | show 🗑
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| show | DEGAS
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| show | VIENNA
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| TWYLA THARP'S "WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE", WAS ONE OF THE FIRST AMERICAN WORKS CREATED FOR THIS RUSSIAN STAR | show 🗑
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| show | ANNA PAVLOVA
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| "DANCING ON MY GRAVE" AND "THE SHAPE OF LOVE" ARE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORKS BY THIS NYC BALLET DANCER | show 🗑
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| IN A FAMOUS FAIRY TALE BALLET, A RAGGED BEGGARWOMAN IS REALLY THIS HEROINE'S FAIRY GODMOTHER | show 🗑
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| show | SWAN LAKE
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| show | NURYEV
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| AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT, "DOO DAH DAY" IS DANCED TO THE MUSIC OF THIS COMPOSER | show 🗑
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| show | THE DYING SWAN
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| "BARABAO" WAS THE 1ST OF 10 BALLETS THIS RUSSIAN CHOREOGRAPHED FOR THE BALLETS RUSSES BEFORE HE MOVED TO THE UNITED STATES | show 🗑
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| show | THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
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| show | ANASTASIA
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| IN A FAMOUS STRAVINSKY BALLET, THIS TITLE CHARACTER IS IN LOVE WITH A BALLERINA PUPPET | show 🗑
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| THE BALLET "APOLLO" IS SET ON DELOS, AN ISLAND IN THIS SEA | show 🗑
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| show | BARYSHNIKOV
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| show | NYC BALLET
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| THIS SPANISH SEDUCER IS ATTACKED BY FURIES AT THE END OF A 1936 BALLET | show 🗑
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| show | A PAINTING
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| STRAVINSKY AND THIS RUSSIAN-BORN AMERICAN CHOREOGRAPHER COLLABORATED ON SEVERAL BALLETS INCLUDING "AGON" | show 🗑
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| show | THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
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| show | A SWORD
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| SIR FREDERICK ASHTON WAS PRINCIPAL CHOREOGRAPHER OF THIS BRITISH COMPANY 1935-70 | show 🗑
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| THE NAME OF THIS HORIZONTAL HANDRAIL FOUND IN A BALLET STUDIO CAN BE SPELLED WITH 5 LETTERS OR 3 | show 🗑
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| show | PROKOFIEV
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| show | NYC BALLET
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| show | JOFFREY
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| AFTER THIS GREAT DANCER MARRIED IN 1913, DIAGHILEV DISMISSED HIM FROM HIS COMPANY | show 🗑
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| MEANING MADE OR DONE IN THE ARABIC FASHION, THIS ADJECTIVE IS USED IN MUSIC, INTERIOR DESIGN, AND BALLET | show 🗑
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| A CLASSICAL PRODUCTION OF "LES SYLPHIDES" FEATURES TUTUS OF THIS COLOR | show 🗑
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| show | SCHUBERT
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| show | STRAVINSKY
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| WHEN I SAW "LES NOCES", "EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AT..." THIS, AS THEY SAY IN "A CHORUS LINE" | show 🗑
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| show | RICHARD ROGERS
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| show | MOZART
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| show | VERDI
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| show | BEETHOVEN
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| show | BIZET
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| IN "WONDERFUL DANCING GIRLS", 2 BALLET DANCERS DANCE ON THIS, YEARS BEFORE FRED ASTAIRE IN "ROYAL WEDDING" | show 🗑
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| THIS SPANISH SURREALIST DESIGNED COSTUMES FOR LEONIDE MASSINE'S 1941 BALLET "LABYRINTH" | show 🗑
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| show | RAY CHARLES
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| show | ANNA PAVLOVA
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| IN 1957 THIS SISTER OF MARIA TALLCHIEF JOINED THE PARIS OPERA BALLET AS AN ETOILE, THE FIRST AMERICAN SO HONORED | show 🗑
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| IN MANY VERSIONS OF THIS CLASSIC 1892 HOLIDAY BALLET, CLARA RIDES OFF TO THE KINGDOM OF SWEETS IN A MAGICAL SLEIGH | show 🗑
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| show | DIAMONDS
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| show | ELVIS PRESLEY
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| "TONIGHT, TONIGHT" LET'S SEE THE BALLET BASED ON THIS 1957 MUSICAL ABOUT TEEN GANGS...THE JETS AND THE SHARKS | show 🗑
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| show | PRODIGAL SON
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| THIS BALLET STAR AND CARRIE'S LOVE INTEREST ON "SEX AND THE CITY", TURNED 60 IN 2008 | show 🗑
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| "THE FOUR TEMPERMENTS" IS SUBTITLED "A DANCE BALLET WITHOUT..." THIS, SO WE'LL NEVER SAY THAT IT THICKENS | show 🗑
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| show | FIORELLO LAGUARDIA
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| SCENE 1 OF BALANCHINE'S BALLET "ORPHEUS" OPENS AT THE GRAVE OF THIS WOMAN | show 🗑
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| show | THE FIREBIRD
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| show | FAUST
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| show | DON QUIXOTE
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| show | ARABESQUE
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| show | ABOVE THE HEAD
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| show | 2ND POSITION
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| THE NAME OF THIS BALLET MOVE IS FROM THE OLD FRENCH FOR "SPINNING TOP" | show 🗑
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| THIS BALLET MOVE IS A JUMP FORWARD, BACKWARD, OR TO THE SIDE | show 🗑
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| MICHAEL FOKINE CREATED THIS AVIAN BALLET IN 1905 FOR BALLERINA ANNA PAVLOVA | show 🗑
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| show | AARON COPLAND
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| show | PICASSO
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| show | SANSKRIT
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| IN 1959 GALINA ULANOVA IN "ROMEO & JULIET" WAS A HIGHLIGHT OF THIS BALLET COMPANY'S FIRST U.S. TOUR | show 🗑
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| MARGOT FONTEYN FIRST DANCED ONSTAGE WITH HIM IN 1962 AT COVENT GARDEN IN A PERFORMANCE OF "GISELLE" | show 🗑
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| show | NIJINSKY
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| show | UGLY STEPSISTERS
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| show | THE NUTCRACKER
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| ACT II, SCENE ONE OF "SPARTACUS" IS SET ON THIS ANCIENT HIGHWAY | show 🗑
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| I LOVE THE MUSIC OF THIS POLISH-FRENCH COMPOSER, SO WE MUST SEE "IN THE NIGHT", WHICH FEATURES HIS NOCTURNES | show 🗑
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| THIS AGNES DE MILLE BALLET IS NAMED FOR A COWBOY EVENT | show 🗑
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| THIS COMPOSER OF THE BALLET "RODEO" SCORED AN OSCAR FOR HIS SCORE FROM "THE HEIRESS" | show 🗑
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| show | LIZZIE BORDEN
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| show | THE FIREBIRD
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| HE WAS MARRIED TO MARIA TALLCHIEF WHEN HE CHOREOGRAPHED HER IN HIS 1948 BALLET "ORPHEUS" | show 🗑
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| show | CATHERINE DE MEDICI
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| THE 1890 PREMIERE OF THIS BALLET INCLUDED ENRICO CECCHETI AS THE BLUEBIRD AND CARLOTTA BRIANZA AS AURORA | show 🗑
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| BALLET MUSIC WAS THOUGHT AN INFERIOR GENRE WHEN HE WAS COMMISSIONED TO WRITE THE MUSIC FOR "SWAN LAKE" | show 🗑
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| show | KIROV BALLET
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| show | APRIL
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| MODELS, GENDARMES, AND A TOUR DE FRANCE CYCLIST APPEAR IN THIS GERSHWIN BALLET | show 🗑
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| show | BILLY THE KID
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| THE NYC BALLET'S FIRST VISIT TO THIS CITY'S FAMOUS FESTIVAL INSPIRED THE BALLET "SCOTCH SYMPHONY" | show 🗑
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| THE 1972 BALLET "PRINTEMPS" PREMIERED IN THE WINTER, BUT ITS NAME IS FRENCH FOR THIS SEASON | show 🗑
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| ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS' TALE ABOUT "THE LADY OF ..." THESE FLOWERS BLOOMED AS THE BALLET "MARGUERITE AND ARMAND" | show 🗑
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| show | DIAGHILEV
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