Long, long ballets

1. Who danced Cleopatra at the London premiere of Houston Ballet's piece of the same name? Lauren Anderson
2. Who danced Arthur in Part 2 of David Bintley's epic? Wolfgang Stollwitzer
3. Who danced Dr Jekyll in NBT's February premiere? Daniel de Andrade

Balanchine

1. Which 3 ballets made up the Kirov's Balanchine triple bill in London? Serenade, Apollo and Symphony in C
2. Which Balanchine ballet did the Dutch National Ballet perform at Sadler's Wells? Four Temperaments
3. Who danced the pas de deux in the first cast of the RB's Agon last season? Zenaida Yanowsky and Carlos Acosta

MacMillan

1. Who wrote the music for Triad? Prokofiev
2. Who danced Manon and Des Grieux on the first night of the Kirov's London performances? Svetlana Zakharova and Ilya Kuznetsov
3. Who designed the sets and costumes for Rituals? Yolanda Sonnabend

Feminine endings

Which ballets, seen in London this year, ended with the female lead

1. walking down the street in the rain? Live (Dutch National Ballet
2. melted by the sun? The Snowmaiden (Moscow Stanislavsky Ballet)
3. drowning herself in the sea? Sea Pictures (San Francisco Ballet)

Out of town

1. Where did George Piper Dances give its first performance? Harrogate
2. What was the name of Christopher Wheeldon's new hit, given by the NYCB in Edinburgh? Polyphonia
3. What is the name of NBT's new director? David Nixon

Paris

1. Which ballet featured in two different versions in the same triple bill? L'Apres midi d'un Faune(Nijinsky)/Afternoon of a Faun(Robbins)
2. What was the name of the 19th century ballet revived in a new version by Pierre Lacotte? Paquita
3. Who was the choreographer of the new ballet Nosferatu? Jean Claude Gallotta

Off-pointe

1. What is the name of the Merce Cunningham piece recently taken into the Rambert repertoire? Ground Level Overlay
2. Who choreographed Truly Great Thing for George Piper Dances? Charles Linehan
3. Who wrote the music for the new Mark Morris piece, V? Robert Schumann

Exits and entrances

1. Who joined and left the Royal Ballet without ever dancing a step? Giuseppe Picone
2. Name the Swedish dancer who has joined ENB as a Principal Jan-Erik Wikstrom
3. Which 3 female etoiles retired from the Paris Opera Ballet in the summer? Isabelle Guerin, Fanny Gaida, and Carole Arbo

Centenaries

1. Which choreographer, who created perhaps the greatest anti-war ballet of the 20th century, was born in 1901? Kurt Jooss
2. Which great Russian choreographer, creator of some of the most popular ballets ever written, died in 1901? Lev Ivanov
3. Which British writer and critic, co-author of a ballet whodunnit later turned into a play starring Leonide Massine, was born in 1901? Caryl Brahms