Round 5: 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 played a sexualized Golden Slave in Scheherazade and a personified flower who leaps out of a window at the end of The Spectre of the Rose. After entering a loveless marriage with the stalker Romola de Pulszky, this dancer was unceremoniously fired and replaced with Léonide Massine. This dancer (10[1])mimed (10[1])masturbating with a scarf at the end of the ballet Afternoon of a Faun, which began his rivalry with Michel Fokine. (10[1])This dancer choreographed the “Glorification of the Chosen One” for a 1913 ballet (10[1])commissioned by his (10[1])lover, Sergei Diaghilev. For 10 points, what star of the Ballet Russes choreographed The Rite of Spring? (10[1])■END■

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