Which Dead Ballet Choreographer Are You? Find out by clicking here: http://quizilla.com/users/bquiz/quizzes/Wh...%20Are%20You%3F

I am able to edit the quiz, so criticisms are welcome .

Hans, that is absolutely brilliant -- it deserves its own thread. Hang on a minute, and I'll give it one.

Bravo!!!!

Editing to add:

You took it down when I was moving the topic -- put it back fast! It was PERFECT I laughed out loud at least a dozen times.

Hm...it seems that Quizilla refuses to put up the revised version, so the one above will have to do for now. So, which dead ballet choreographer are you, Alexandra? (As if I need ask ;) )

Editing to say Never mind! I just clicked on the above link and it worked.

Actually, I'm abstaining from taking the poll. It was much more fun reading it and figuring out who you meant for each answer!

Editing to add: I couldn't resist. I ended up being Fokine, I think because my very favorite answer option is "put them back into repertory!"

I beg your pardon, Ms. T., but I'll have to change my sign in name to read M. Petipa....

Oh, nuts; I hit the wrong button and didn't get to see the other possible results. Does anyone know what they are?

F. Ashton
(Isn't that nice!)

Very nice, G Perhaps we could hold on posting all the possibles until more people have taken it, so as not to spoil it for them? If everyone hasn't been "outed" within a day or two, then maybe Hans could post those as yet undiscovered

I too am Frederick Ashton

My computer snag came when I tried to rate the quiz (giving it high marks, of course) and was informed that someone at my IP had already rated the quiz????

I don't know why that happened. But thank you for intending to rate it well .

I won't be giving anything away in terms of choices because I scored the same as you, Alexandra.

Wish there were one for living choreographers.

Here at BALLET ALERT we anticipate your every desire Watch for a Living Choreographers Quiz coming up next week.....

:shhh: . . . but I'm FA, too. At least when I answered "honestly" Also had trouble registering my rating. Is there a homepage on which to sign in? If so, it isn't linked on the "Which Choregrapher" page.

When I answered with extreme prejudice and deviousness , I was Mr. B., just as I hoped. :party:

Gosh, carbro, what does that tell you? I sense you're aesthetically conflicted

I had no trouble rating (gave it a 5, Hans

You can go to http://www.quizilla.com --that's the main site.

Thank you, Alexandra!

Of course, I was Balanchine

:grinning: Of course, now the question could be, "Will the REAL George Balanchine please stand up?" which could lead not only to a new quiz but a great debate!

Either that, Alexandra, or perhaps I am extremely, extremely versatile and the Genius Choreographer of the 20th Century.

That's it! Ms. Ultima Fusion!

Carbro Ashtochine to my friends.

I answered somewhat deviously, too, so that I'd turn out to be Balanchine. Has anyone heard of any plans for my centennial?

Oh, come on--answer honestly!

And about that centennial...you don't want to know

I wish I hadn't been so darned honest, because if I'd been George Balanchine, I'd be one step closer to his choreographic protege, Jacques D'Amboise, the one I REALLY identify with because 1) of his fantastic work with children; 2) his climbing the Appalachian Trail (I'm a walking/hiking addict and love the outdoors); and 3) his using the beautiful and talented Janet Eilber in his production with the kids (I once played the same role she did in the play "Romantic Comedy"). Yes, yes, I digress, that's what I do.

I ended up as Fokine, too! I can just hear Vitale Mikhailovitch now,
"Haw, haw, haw - I knew dere was some reasson I liked ya!"

Most odd, I ended up as Petipa! I have always felt more like a Fokine man...

Awesome quiz, Hans! I'm definitely putting this on my website.

I picked all the choices that I thought would apply to Mr. B and ended up being him...

Now I'll go back to see who I'm really like.

Yea! I'm Petipa.

Very clever! I am a pathetic choreographer. Only do it out of need! But I turned out to be Petipa, which was a little surprising. Fun to explore, but I'll stay with teaching and occasionally "crafting" something when I have to!

Yet another Balanchine here (and Stravinsky on the Dead Russian Composers quiz).

Thank you for the plug, Old Fashioned! May I see your web site?

I had no idea this would be so popular, but I'm glad everyone's having fun with it .

It's not really a website, only my online journal. For some reason I can't get the html for my quiz results to work. Hmmm... :shrug: I'll put up a link to the quiz, though.

This is fun. I was Fokine.

That makes your Composer alter-ego better, then, doesn't it, Floss? Because all by yourself you created Petruschka AND Firebird's scores and choreographies! You're a helluva talent! Cheer up!

I think i'll have to find the Vodka bottle and cheer myself up. Ahhh Vodka and Coke a drink from my youth. (Whoops, sorry is that inappropriate for the board? If it is please delete)

Was there a dead choreographer that didn't apply to?

~ Amy [MacMillan]

I'm George Balanchine yippee! I'm feeling the urge to toast myself with a shot of vodka and wear my western shirt and bolo tie today!

Carbro, I'm so glad you pointed that out about the composer/choreographer connection, because it happened to me too, and it now makes sense! (Every project I undertook in completing the college dance major was one in which I tackled the whole picture -- choreographing, composing, scripting, costuming, artwork, -- I tend to focus on the 'whole forest' when putting something together). Anyway, that was very astute of you, and perhaps the results of these two quizzes are best viewed together.

From our point of view, no. But the choreographers might have had varying opinions--some opimistic, some pessimistic. And the damage does seem to be worse at some companies than others.

No big surprise here -- I'm Balanchine, and I didn't even cheat.

My fave part of the quiz: the one & only answer to "Does your home company mangle your ballets?"

this is very interesting, as i ended up as petipa and tchaikovsky. hmmmmm.

[stares] Pmeja, you are my new favorite person .

We could do a fun mismatch -- Balanchine/Rachmaninoff, Ashton/Stravinsky (I know Scenes de ballet is a glory, but would they have been happy in a long-term monogamous relationship?) MacMillan/Glinka.....

Bournonville-Stravinsky. Try -- just try to imagine . . . :dizzy:

He would have grumbled a lot -- you should read him on Wagner; he hated him, but he produced his operas and produced them well -- but he'd have done a nice "Baiser". Some of the most interesting sounding Bournonville ballets were tossed. One was "The Mandarin's Daughters," with the dancers dressed as Chinese chess pieces, dancing on a chess board. It wasn't a narrative, demicaractere ballet. I could imagine that to early Stravinsky. Now, "Symphony in 3 Movements"? I somehow can't quite imagine it

I would never have the patience to think up of a quiz like this! But I'm grateful you ended up making it, Hans. As for choreographer I was Petipa, and on that separate composer quiz I was, of course, Tchaikovsky. Vunderbar! :grinning: :cool2:

Where is the composers quiz? I can't find it.

Dead Russian Composer Personality Test

Good luck, Old Fashioned!

That was really great fun!
I'm George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky (no, please, no more rotton eggs!) An Interesting mix!! Very amusing! Top job, well done!

That's a great mix! Don't expect rotten eggs

Ack! I just took the composer test and I turned out to be Shostakovich! I demand a recount!

As Shostakovich I'm nervous, fidgety and stuttery, among other less than dynamic discriptions. Not very complimentary, tho I like his music. However, maybe that test is more sensitive than we imagine because I'm all of the above what with my daughter in labor NOW!! I'll take comfort in my Ashton outcome in the dead choreographers catagory.

Giannina