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1. I'm trapped! In this ballet I'm wearing a purple tutu and carrying a wand. I'm standing in a boat with a prince while floating on a forest lake. Where could I be?
2. I've been transported into another fairy tale ballet. I hear Prokofiev's score as I dance barefoot with a broom after watching my step-sisters take a dance lesson. In what ballet am I dancing the lead role?
3. Shiver me timbers! Now I'm a background dancer in a pirate ballet! There's a beautiful pas de trois, a poisoned flower, and a shipwreck.
4. Oh no! I've been bitten by a snake! A jealous rival planted it in the basket she gave me, and now I'm dying, even as a priest is trying to give me the antidote. I won't make it to Act III of this ballet alive.
5. The scenery and dancers around me change, replaced by lots of grotesque creatures in a forest. I'm dressed in a red, feathery costume and get to vanquish these monsters. Which ballet could I possibly be in?
6. There's no sign of a plot anywhere in this next ballet I've fallen into, but I do see a lot of dancers in sparkly costumes. Some are in green, some are in white, and I'm in red. What George Balanchine ballet am I in?
7. I've warped into a comic ballet! I'm a girl who's being betrothed to a man I don't love. My widowed mother is doing a tap dance in wooden clogs...and I think she's being played by a man!
8. I didn't expect to find myself in a ballet based on a violent historical event, but here I am! If I'm dancing a pas de deux with Prince Rudolf, where am I?
9. What a day I've had in this next production! I'm nearly killed by a lion, jump into a river to avoid being killed by a king, dance in an undersea kingdom, and get to marry my beloved only after I threaten to kill myself! Did I mention that all this is the dream of an Englishman who sees my corpse? What ballet have I warped into?
10. The scenery vanishes, and I'm in a room dancing a pas de deux with a man dressed like a flower...and he's just jumped out the window! What very short ballet do I find myself in?
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