Alina Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 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! Link to comment
Tancos Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 Yet another Balanchine here (and Stravinsky on the Dead Russian Composers quiz). Link to comment
Hans Posted August 7, 2003 Author Share Posted August 7, 2003 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 . Link to comment
Old Fashioned Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 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. Link to comment
carbro Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 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! Link to comment
floss Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 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) Link to comment
Amy Reusch Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 A little more detail, please?"Hideously" Was there a dead choreographer that didn't apply to? ~ Amy [MacMillan] Link to comment
perky Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 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! Link to comment
Funny Face Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 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. Link to comment
Hans Posted August 7, 2003 Author Share Posted August 7, 2003 A little more detail, please?"Hideously" Was there a dead choreographer that didn't apply to? ~ Amy [MacMillan] 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. Link to comment
Ari Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 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?" Link to comment
Mme. Hermine Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 this is very interesting, as i ended up as petipa and tchaikovsky. hmmmmm. Link to comment
Hans Posted August 8, 2003 Author Share Posted August 8, 2003 [stares] Mme. Hermine, you are my new favorite person . Link to comment
Alexandra Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 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..... Link to comment
carbro Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Bournonville-Stravinsky. Try -- just try to imagine . . . :dizzy: Link to comment
Alexandra Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 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 Link to comment
Lukayev Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 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: Link to comment
Old Fashioned Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Where is the composers quiz? I can't find it. Link to comment
carbro Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Dead Russian Composer Personality Test Good luck, Old Fashioned! Link to comment
danciegirlmaria Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 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! Link to comment
Alexandra Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 That's a great mix! Don't expect rotten eggs Link to comment
Ari Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Ack! I just took the composer test and I turned out to be Shostakovich! I demand a recount! Link to comment
Giannina Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 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 Link to comment
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