The ballet quiz

Ballet enthusiasts...this one is for you. If you know everything about the world of ballet then this should be very easy.

  1.  1

    The music of the ballets Swanlake and Nutcracker was composed by which famous Russian?

    • Petr Ilich Tchaikovsky
    • Aleksandr Borodin
    • Sergei Prokofiev
    • Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov
  2.  2

    A movement in which the dancer spins completely around one foot.

    • topspin
    • turnout
    • piroutte
    • jete
  3.  3

    It's a jump in any direction from both feet to one foot where one foot is thrown to gain power

    • jete
    • danseille
    • barette
    • entrechat
  4.  4

    What do you call the movement in a beating manner made by raising and lowering the leg sideways, forwards and backwards?

    • battement
    • sur l'oir
    • divertissement
    • cancan
  5.  5

    Who became the soloist of the Leningrad Kirov Ballet in 1958 but defected and became the permanent guest artist of the Royal Ballet of London?

    • Vaslav Nijinski
    • Natalia Makarova
    • Rudolf Nureyev
    • Miikhail Baryshnikov
  6.  6

    It is a pose in which one leg is extended behind the dancer with a straightened knee and a pointed foot.

    • arabesque
    • attitude
    • swan pose
    • sur le pointes
  7.  7

    Who choreographed Schoenberg's Pillar of Fire and turned it into a famous ballet?

    • Anthony Tudor
    • Roland Petit
    • George Ballanchine
    • Jeff Porcaro

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