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If you already find yourself thinking 'Ross Who?', some of the year's other events may have completely disappeared into the mists by now. Here are some questions to jog your memory - as usual, most of the answers can be found in the pages of ballet.co (try one of the databases if you get stuck). Answers in full in the next magazine.
Literature
- Who choreographed a ballet based on Wuthering Heights for the Paris Opera Ballet?
- Which novel was Cathy Marston's Between Shadows based on?
- Whose novels formed the inspiration for Kim Brandstrup's Brothers?
Music
- Whose music was used for Moon Water by Cloud Gate of Taiwan?
- Who wrote the music for Christopher Wheeldon's Tryst?
- Whose music did David Bintley use for his new Concert Fantasy?
Swan Lakes
- Whose controversial version of Swan Lake was shown at the Edinburgh Festival?
- Who has recently done a new version for the Australian Ballet?
- Which Russian guest artists danced the leading roles with ENB at the Albert Hall this summer?
More MacMillan
- Which was MacMillan's first work for the Covent Garden Royal Ballet?
- What was the name of the ballet he made for the Shakespeare quatercentenary?
- Which of his ballets, also Shakespeare-inspired, had a revival in Exeter?
American visitors
- Which great choreographer appeared in a speaking role?
- Who was the choreographer of PNB's Fearful Symmetries?
- Which NYCB principal premiered a new piece of choreography in the Danses Concertantes season?
Off-pointe
- Where did Siobhan Davies's new work have its premiere?
- Which NDT1 piece used Ravel's Bolero?
- What is the music for Richard Alston's Rumours, Visions?
Going Up
- Who is the newest etoile in the Paris Opera Ballet?
- Who danced herself to death and was immediately promoted to Principal?
- Which American dancer was made a Principal in the Birmingham RB?
Coming up
- Which ballerina is the inspiration for Boris Eifman's Red Giselle?
- Who is the designer for the Royal Ballet's new Sleeping Beauty?
- Which is the next company due to stage Ashton's Fille mal Gardee?
Centenaries
- Which British composer, whose music has been used by Ashton and Bintley, was born in 1902?
- Born in Utah in 1902, the eldest of three brothers, revered as a founder of San Francisco Ballet - who was he?
- Which great ballerina, who also wrote a book about her early life which has become a classic, graduated from the Maryinsky school in 1902?
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