Packet K: Tossup 12

A John Neumeier ballet titled for this dancer reimagines a ballet about two Young Girls and a Young Man who play tennis as a gay male trio. This dancer (10[1])played a sexualized Golden (10[1])Slave in Scheherazade (10[1])and a personified flower who leaps out of a window (10[1])at the end of The Spectre (10[1])of the (10[1])Rose. After entering a loveless marriage with the stalker (10[1])Romola de Pulszky, this dancer was unceremoniously fired and replaced with Léonide Massine. (10[3])This dancer (10[1])mimed (10[1])masturbating (10[2])with a scarf (10[2])at the end (10[1])of the ballet (10[1])Afternoon of a Faun, (10[2])which began his (10[1])rivalry (10[2])with (10[1])Michel Fokine. (10[3])This (10[1])dancer choreographed the “Glorification of the Chosen One” for (10[1])a 1913 (10[1])ballet (10[1])commissioned (10[1])by his (10[1])lover, (10[2]-5[1])Sergei (10[1])Diaghilev. (10[4])For 10 points, (10[1])what star of the Ballet (10[1])Russes choreographed (10[1])The Rite of Spring? (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[19])

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