Activity 2: Name That

Ballet Bank: Romeo and Juliet Coppelia

La Bayadere The Nutcracker Cinderella

Don Quixote Sleeping Beauty

1. Ever wish your favorite doll could walk and talk just like you? Well, in this ballet, Doctor Coppelius wishes to do just that by taking the soul of a poor town boy named Franz. He is fooled, however, by the clever Swanhilda who dresses up like his beloved doll and plays along with his game in order to save Franz.

Name This Ballet: ______

2. This funny COVID-19 ballet cartoon is depicting a famous scene from this ballet.

Name This Ballet: ______

3. This ballet was ’s very first ballet to ever compose. He ​ was so excited to compose the ballet that he wrote and orchestrated it in less than a year… and remember, this was before fast working technology and internet!

Name This Ballet: ______

4. This ballet is based off of a famous novel by author and was originally choreographed by to music by Ludwig Minkus. It was first brought to the United States in the early 1900s by the famous ballerina, and her company.

Name This Ballet: ______

5. Considered to be the symbol of , this story is one of heartache. The main character dies of a broken heart and joins the Wilis, a group of ghostly women who have all died of broken hearts and spend their days haunting their ex-lovers.

Name This Ballet: ______

6. This ballet was seen as a failure when it first premiered in 1892 in , Russia. Now, however, it is the most performed ballet in the world and is very popular in America around the holiday season.

Name This Ballet: ______

7. The main character in this fairytale ballet obviously needs to take some lessons in how to tie her ballet shoe ribbons so they don’t fall off so easily…

Name This Ballet: ______

8. This romantic and tragic ballet is based off of a famous play written by William Shakespeare about a family feud between two houses and how true love is stronger than hatred.

Name This Ballet: ______

9. This ballet is about a princess who is cursed at birth to prick her finger on her sixteenth birthday and die. Luckily for her, the Lilac Fairy is able to intervene so that the princess would only fall into a deep sleep to one day be awakened by true love’s kiss.

Name This Ballet: ______