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Dance Organizations and Their Founders

This quiz will test your knowledge about the founders of various dance organizations.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater?

  1. Alvin Ailey
  2. Judith Jamison
  3. Carmen de Lavallade
  4. Pearl Primus
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who founded the Martha Graham Dance Company?

  1. Martha Graham
  2. Erick Hawkins
  3. Merce Cunningham
  4. Paul Taylor
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who founded the Merce Cunningham Dance Company?

  1. Merce Cunningham
  2. John Cage
  3. Robert Rauschenberg
  4. Jasper Johns
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who founded the Paul Taylor Dance Company?

  1. Paul Taylor
  2. Carolyn Brown
  3. Daniel Nagrin
  4. Bettie de Jong
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who founded the Joffrey Ballet?

  1. Robert Joffrey
  2. Gerald Arpino
  3. Rudolf Nureyev
  4. Mikhail Baryshnikov
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who founded the American Ballet Theatre?

  1. Lincoln Kirstein
  2. George Balanchine
  3. Jerome Robbins
  4. Antony Tudor
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who founded the New York City Ballet?

  1. George Balanchine
  2. Jerome Robbins
  3. Lincoln Kirstein
  4. Peter Martins
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who founded the San Francisco Ballet?

  1. Lew Christensen
  2. William Christensen
  3. Harold Christensen
  4. Val Caniparoli
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who founded the Boston Ballet?

  1. E. Virginia Williams
  2. George Balanchine
  3. Jerome Robbins
  4. Mikko Nissinen
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who founded the Pennsylvania Ballet?

  1. Barbara Weisberger
  2. Benjamin Harkarvy
  3. Robert Weiss
  4. Angel Corella
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who founded the Houston Ballet?

  1. Nina Youshkevitch
  2. James Clouser
  3. Stanton Welch
  4. Christopher Bruce
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who founded the Pacific Northwest Ballet?

  1. Kent Stowell
  2. Francia Russell
  3. Peter Boal
  4. Ronald Hynd
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who founded the Royal Ballet?

  1. Ninette de Valois
  2. Frederick Ashton
  3. Robert Helpmann
  4. Margot Fonteyn
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who founded the Bolshoi Ballet?

  1. Yuri Grigorovich
  2. Maya Plisetskaya
  3. Rudolf Nureyev
  4. Mikhail Baryshnikov
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who founded the Kirov Ballet?

  1. Marius Petipa
  2. Lev Ivanov
  3. George Balanchine
  4. Jerome Robbins
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