TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, January 23, 2012

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Tonight is my first class of the new semester, even though the semester began over a week ago. Our class didn't meet last week because it was Martin Luther King day, and my other class is online, so we never actually meet! It's been hard to get motivated to do the homework because I feel like I am not actually back in school. Hopefully after tonight it will start to feel more real, because I need to get my butt in gear!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body."

HINT: (1894-1991), American dancer, teacher and choreographer of modern dance


RANDOM TIDBITS
Ballet emerged in the late 15th century Renaissance court culture of Italy, as a dance interpretation of fencing. It was eventually further developed in the French court from the time of Louis XIV in the 17th century.

The word "tutu" may be a corruption of "cucu," French baby talk for "cul-cul" meaning roughly "botty-wotty" (for bottom). Alternatively, it may derive from tulle, the material from which tutus are often made.

For its first 100 years, ballet was performed exclusively by male courtiers as an amateur entertainment.

The largest ballet class involved 989 participants in an event organized by Andrew Warth in Canal Walk Shopping Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, on August 24, 2008.

A fouette is like a pirouette where the dancer flicks their leg around to spin. New Yorker Leigh Zimmerman twirled a new world record by completing 38 complete spins at the Pineapple Dance Studios in London.

Anna Pavlova, the renowned prima ballerina, died of pneumonia three weeks before her 50th birthday. Following an old ballet tradition, on the day she was to have next performed, the show went on as scheduled, with a single spotlight circling an empty stage where she would have been. The Pavlova dessert was named after her.


VIDEO CLIP
Rudolf Nureyev & Merle Park in The Nutcracker
This clip is from the historic 1968 Covent Garden production of Tchaikovsky's ballet masterpiece captures Rudolf Nureyev and Merle Park. Enjoy this great performance.

Watch It Now: Rudolf Nureyev & Merle Park in The Nutcracker


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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the
body."

ANSWER: Martha Graham

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