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Question 1: The most well-known styles of ballet are the Russian Method, the Italian Method, the Danish Method, the Balanchine Method or New York City Ballet Method, and the ________ and Royal Ballet School methods, derived from the Cecchetti method, created in England.
Royal Academy of DanceCyprusFranceCanada

Question 2: Ballet ultimately traces back to ________ ballare, meaning to dance.
Vulgar LatinOld LatinLatinRoman Empire

Question 3: Subsequent developments now include contemporary ballet and ________ ballet, seen in the work of William Forsythe in Germany.
Continental philosophyPost-structuralismGilles DeleuzeArthur Schopenhauer

Question 4: One dancer who danced briefly for Balanchine was ________, an exemplar of Kirov Ballet training.
Igor GouzenkoIgor Vasilyevich IvanovSummit SeriesMikhail Baryshnikov

Question 5: Both these pieces were considered innovative for their use of distinctly modern movements melded with the use of ________ and classically-trained dancers—for their use of "contemporary ballet".
Ballet de l'Opéra National de ParisPointe shoesBallerinaLa Sylphide

Question 6: Ballet dance works (ballets) are choreographed and performed by trained artists, include mime and acting, and are set to music (usually ________ but occasionally vocal).
The PlanetsOrchestraTimpaniClassical music

Question 7: Despite the great reforms of Noverre in the eighteenth century, ballet went into decline in France after 1830, though it was continued in ________, Italy, and Russia.
LuxembourgSpainLithuaniaDenmark

Question 8: The ________ of the word "ballet" is related to the art form's history.
Historical linguisticsLinguisticsMorphology (linguistics)Etymology

Question 9: Ballet is a formalized type of performance dance, which originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France, ________, and Russia as a concert dance form.
EnglandWalesScotlandUnited Kingdom

Question 10: What does the following picture show?

  Arms in Cecchetti's "Spanish fourth" position.
  Harlequin and Columbina from the mime theater at Tivoli, Denmark.
  New York State Theater, home of the New York City Ballet.
















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