Kick up Your Heels with Dance Trivia

Dance is one of the great fun exercises.  Don't even have to be very good at it; I never was.  Just get on the floor and move.

How familiar are you with dance trivia?  Let's find out with these questions from the GrandStand Sports Bar's Wednesday night game.  Scroll down for the answers.

Dance Trivia

1. Who is the famous dance partner to Fred Astaire who said “I did everything Fred did, only backwards and in high heels”?  (Isn't this just a great quote?)

2. According to a 2018 survey by Dance magazine, what Christmas-themed Tchaikovsky ballet accounts for nearly half the annual revenue of many dance companies?

3. What geometrically named dance is the official state dance of many U.S. states?

4. In both the 1984 and 2011 Footloose films, Ren teaches Willard to dance. What one song played in both dance montages?

5. In 1983, who sang "Just Dance / Put on your red shoes and dance the blues"?

6. Forming in St. Louis in 1925, what precision dance company has performed in New York City’s Radio City Music Hall since 1932?

7. The pop rock band Walk the Moon released what 2014 hit with these lyrics: "A backless dress and some beat-up sneaks / My discotheque Juliet teenage dream."

8. Break dancing made its Olympic event debut in Paris this year. What women-only floor competition incorporates dance and the use of a ribbon, hoop, ball and clubs?

9. Ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union in 1974. In 1985 he starred in White Nights. Who is his tap-dancing American co-star in the film?

10. Who is the dancing movie star who performed the 1952 "Singing in the Rain" number with a fever of 103?

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The Answers

1.  Ginger Rogers

2.  The Nutcracker

3.  Square Dance

4.  "Let's Hear It for the Boy"

5.  David Bowie

6.  Rockettes

7.  "Shut Up and Dance"

8.  Rhythmic Gymnastics

9.  Gregory Hines

10.  Gene Kelly