Now that I have your attention...

We've all heard about Balanchine giving a different perfume to each ballerina. This thread does the same thing, but with ice cream

You don't have to make up a cute name for your flavor, though they are welcome and male dancers are included.

Examples, courtesy of carbro :

Jose Carreno: coffee with a caramel swirl
Angel Corella: tart and lemony
Julie Kent: vanilla chocolate chip

It'll probably make us all hungry, but such fun

I have no imagination at all, but...

Cojocaru: rich,silky smooth vanilla that goes with everything.

Giannina

Darcey Bussell- English Toffee
Sylvie Guillem- Cherry
Diana Vishneva-Raspberry
Svetlana Zakharova-Vanilla
Lucia Lacarra- Banana
Tamara Rojo- Blueberry

Asylmuratova: cinnamon ice cream with caramel
Nilas Martins: cookie dough
Miranda Weese: lemon ice

Farrell: Coffee
P. Martins: Vanilla
McBride: Cherry Vanilla
Tomasson: Chocolate
Whelan: Dulce de Leche
Nichols: Mocha
Kistler: Tutti Frutti
Meunier: Mango Ice
Bouder: New York Super Fudge Chunk
Somogyi: Cherry
Boal: Boysenberry sorbet
N. Martins: Frozen Tapioca
Borree: Creme Brulee (cracked)
LeClerq: Amaretto
Ansanelli: Lemon ice
Taylor: Black Cherry (served flambé)
Villella: Spumoni (you were expecting something else?)
Watts: Fireworks (a Stewarts' flavor whose featured ingredient is Pop Rocks -- remember those?)
Verdy: Pistachio
Ananiashvili: Cherry Garcia
Bocca: Tamarind ice
Gregory: Peach Melba
Fonteyn: Devonshire Cream (frozen)
Nureyev: Chunky Monkey
Dvorovenko: Peppermint Hot Fudge Sundae with a Cherry on Top
Belotserkovsky: Orange sorbet
Sofiane Sylve: Ginger
Kent: Green Tea
Pavlenko: Any Damn Flavor She Wants
Volochkova: Every Damn Flavor She Wants

The whole Volochkova/Bolshoi mishigass: Nut Fudge.

Oh, Mel, I think I would have to nominate Volochkova for Rocky Road!

Manhattnik, I think I'll be laughing for days

We'll have to open a rival chain to Baskin Robbins -- perhaps we can send bouquets of ice cream cones instead of flowers? -- and Manhattnik will have to be the Big Dipper That's a lovely list!

Gelsey Kirkland - Heavenly Hash or Rocky Road

sz, that is perfect!

Here are some more...

Sylvie Guillem: Death by Chocolate
Alessandra Ferri: cherry mocha with hot fudge

Some very clever, very witty ones in here. I am awestruck by Manhattnik's inspired list. Simply awestruck. M'nik has the soul of a poet.

My modest contribution: Suzanne Farrell as Champagne sorbet with a discreet drizzle of dark chocolate sauce with orange bits.

I imagine X. Reyes as a scoop of Vanilla Carvel (soft ice cream, for our non-US readers) with butterscotch syrup, chocolate syrup, strawberry syrup, lots of whipped cream, several cherries and fistsful of nuts. Oh, and colored sprinkles/jimmies. People said she looked good at the Met, though, this past spring, so I may have to come back and eat my words.

Sorry, but Wendy Whelan is Pistachio.

I cannot possibly top Nilas Martins as Cookie Dough.....

Elizabeth Loscavio - Rocky Road (actually, it's her favorite)

Verdy has to be a green ice cream, because of pun on her name, and because she danced Emeralds. (Would this be right, Manhattnik?) But why is Nichols mocha? Is that your favorite ice cream? In which case. all is forgiven. Otherwise, why not peach?

Verdy could be mint. :yes:

Thanks to Hans for mentioning this thread in a note to me!

I think we can add a few folks to the list.

Ashley Bouder: A creamsicle, both smooth and tangy, with contrasting textures. (Just in case they no longer make creamsicles -- I haven't seen one in ages -- they were orange sherbert with vanilla ice cream inside on a stick).

Marcelo Gomes as a make-your-own sundae. Whatever your ice cream desires are, he can fill the bill!

Karen Kain -- Maple Walnut (the most popular ice cream flavour in Canada)

With all due respect, Diana is Cherry. And given her recent performances, make that Cherries Jubilee*!
Just plug her name
ВИШНЕВОЙ
into Babelfish to see why:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/

* Escoffier's original recipe (for Q. Victoria):
CHERRIES JUBILEE (Original Version)


The original version had no ice cream. A few years later Escoffier invented Peche Melba, which did. And so, God Save the Queen, this progress from the Empire:

Quotes from Historian J.J. Schnebel at http://members.cox.net/jjschnebel/cherries.html

Ekaterina Osmolkina: Cherry-vanilla with brandy. Smooth and sweet, with a (180º) kick!

Larissa Lezhnina: peach sorbet with a mint leaf.

Gillian Murphy: Rhubarb.

I'm strictly a dark chocolate person nowadays, so I can't come up with any references. There aren't many of those rich, complex dancers, voluptuous in movement, around anymore.

I only know that back when I was a teenager, my favorite ice cream flavor was mint chocolate chip (served at Howard Johnson's, a kind of suburban teenage hangout bak in those days, something like Starbucks with food). My favorite NYCB dancer by far at that time was Melissa Hayden. So I've always associated the two.