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There were seven winners this week; thanks all. Congratulations to Anne Moses, Judy Cohn, Steve Keeley, Victoria Leigh, Estelle Souche, Next Stage, and Giannina Mooney. Thanks to you, and thanks to all who took the Quiz.We neglected to count Anne Moses as a Quiz Winner last week; a belated congratulations to Anne.
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Answers to Quiz Number 45
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Ballet Alert! Quiz #45
July 5, 1999
Sleeping Beauty Quiz -- Advanced1. Four ballerinas danced the role of Aurora in Diaghilev's London production of The Sleeping Princess in 1921. Name them.
Olga Spessivtseva, Lubov Egorova, Lydia Lopokova, and Vera Trefilova
2. There were several dances added to this production. Name at least one, and its choreographer.
Bronislava Nijinska added a dance for the Three Ivans to the coda music for the grand pas de deux in Act III, as well as dances for Bluebeard and Scheherezade in that act. The Chinese dance from Nutcracker (Ivanov, presumably) was inserted into that Act and called "The Porcelain Princesses." Nijinska also added the fish dives to the Grand pas de deux. Two Quizzers credited her with retooling parts of the hunt scene, too.3. Many consider the Sadler's Wells Ballet's production in 1946 the third great production of The Sleeping Beauty. Name the designer and the first cast Aurora and Prince.
Designer: Oliver Messel. Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann were Aurora and her Prince.
4. The original production of The Sleeping Beauty included a divertissement of fairy tale characters. This was a tribute to which French writer?
Charles Perrault.
5. In the United States, there were two attempts to revive a "full-length" Sleeping Beauty (in contrast to the many productions of the third act only, usually called Aurora's Wedding) in the 1930s. Who were the producers?
Mikhail Mordkin (whose company devolved into ABT) and Catherine Littlefield.
Extra credit questions:
1. In Russia, one of the first major changes to the ballet was a revised solo for the Lilac Fairy. Who was the dancer, and who was the choreographer?
2. The Prince (first cast) in Diaghilev's production ended his career as a teacher in America. Name the Prince and the school where he taught.
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