Ballets
Name the ballet that caused a riot when it premiered.
What is Rite of Spring?
What company did Balanchine first choreograph for?
What is The Ballet Russe?
Name the place the Ballet Russe was headquartered.
Who is Balanchine?
Name the dancer who started the oldest dance company in the US.
Who is Martha Graham?
Name the ballet that Jerome Robbins choreographed about the 3 soldiers on leave.
What is Fancy Free?
Name the type of ballet that Balanchine preferred to choreograph.
What are movement-driven ballets?
Name the age that the Ballet Russe started in.
What is the age of Modernism?
Name the company where Robbins started his career.
Ballet Theatre, which became ABT.
What was Martha Graham the first person to do?
Name the ballet that Nijinsky made famous when he danced the title character.
What is Petruska?
In what year did Balanchine start SAB?
What is 1934?
Name the director of the Ballet Russe.
Who is Sergei Diaglev?
Name the musical that Robbins also turned into a ballet.
What is West Side Story?
What was Rudolph Nureyev the first dancer to do?
Defect from Russia
What is Prodigal Son?
In what year did Balanchine start NCYB?
1954
Name 3 famous people who collaborated with The Ballet Russe.
Who are Picasso, Miro, Matisse, and Coco Chanel
Name 3 musicals that Robbins choreographed.
What are West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, and The King and I?
What was Maria Tallchief the first person to do?
Become a Prima Ballerina in the US
Name the 2 ballets that Anna Pavlova was famous for that we learned about.
What are The Dying Swan and the Fairy Doll?
Who are Tamara Geva and Maria Tallchief?
In what year did the Ballet Russe stop performing?
1929
Name the more classical-style ballet that Robbins spent over a year choreographing? (Hint: The music is Chopin)
What is Dancers at a Gathering?
Name the 2 companies that Sylvie Guillem danced for, and whose work she was responsible for sharing throughout her career.
Paris Opera, Royal Ballet, Nureyev.