Ballet

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1 Swan Lake 22x

2 Rodeo 17x

3 The Sleeping Beauty 17x

4 The Nutcracker 16x

5 Nijinsky 16x

6 The Firebird 15x

7 Cinderella 11x

8 Anna Pavlova 11x

9 Mikhail Baryshnikov 10x

10 Billy the Kid 9x

11 Jerome Robbins 8x

12 Don Quixote 8x

13 Maria Tallchief 8x

14 The Rite of Spring 8x

15 George Balanchine 8x

16 Rudolf Nureyev 8x

17 Dame Margot Fonteyn 8x

18 Petrushka 7x

19 A Midsummer Night's Dream 7x

20 the Bolshoi 7x

21 Sergei Diaghilev 7x

22 Agnes de Mille 6x

23 Tchaikovsky 6x

24 Romeo and Juliet 6x

25 Lizzie Borden 5x

26 Giselle 5x

27 the New York City Ballet 5x

28 the Royal Ballet 4x

29 the Beach Boys 4x

30 Carmen 4x

31 Anastasia 4x

32 Prokofiev 4x

33 Picasso 4x

34 a doll 4x

35 the Swan 4x

36 a pirouette 4x

37 the Sugarplum Fairy 3x

38 the corps de ballet 3x

39 Terpsichore 3x

40 Ray Charles 3x

41 Quasimodo 3x

42 Othello 3x

43 Moscow 3x

44 Martha Graham 3x

45 Louis XIV 3x

46 Cleopatra 3x

47 Bizet 3x

48 the Kirov 3x

49 Natalia Makarova 3x

50 Ludwig van Beethoven 3x

Sample Clues

Ruffling some feathers, Matthew Bourne's modern take on this Tchaikovsky ballet features male dancers as the birds, not females

Swan Lake

The original cast of this Aaron Copland ballet was headed by Agnes de Mille, who choreographed it & danced the part of the lead cowgirl

Rodeo

Act I of this Tchaikovsky ballet is called "The Spell"

The Sleeping Beauty

Tchaikovsky had a double premiere on Dec. 18, 1892: his opera "Iolanta" & this ballet

The Nutcracker

The erotic ending of this great dancer's 1912 ballet "L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune" created a scandal

Nijinsky

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Swan Lake (22) Rodeo (17) The Sleeping Beauty (17) The Nutcracker (16) Nijinsky (15) The Firebird (13) Cinderella (11) Anna Pavlova (11) Mikhail Baryshnikov (10) Billy the Kid (9) Jerome Robbins (8) Don Quixote (8) The Rite of Spring (8) Rudolf Nureyev (8) Petrushka (7) Maria Tallchief (7) A Midsummer Night's Dream (7) Sergei Diaghilev (7) the Bolshoi (6) George Balanchine (6) Agnes de Mille (6) Tchaikovsky (5) Lizzie Borden (5) Giselle (5) the Royal Ballet (4) the New York City Ballet (4) the Beach Boys (4) Romeo and Juliet (4) Carmen (4) Anastasia (4)