Packet 1: Tossup 3

In a scene from this ballet, two women try to retrieve milk from a jug that another woman balances on her head before revealing that it is empty. In a variation from this ballet’s original production, the female lead danced to Leopold Auer’s violin cadenza while holding a veil that flew up into the rafters at the end. This ballet contains the “danse manu,” the “Scarf Dance,” (-5[1])and a grand pas (-5[1])classique whose 24 dancers enter one-by-one (15[1])with an arabesque (15[2])into (15[1])a cambré. (15[3])After smoking (*) opium, (10[4]-5[1])the grief-stricken warrior Solor (-5[1])dreams of the Kingdom of the Shades (10[2])in a scene from this ballet (10[3])where he is (10[1])united (10[1])with his beloved Nikiya. (10[1])This (10[1])1877 ballet was the most successful collaboration between the creators of Don Quixote. For 10 points, (-5[1])Ludwig Minkus and Marius Petipa created what ballet about an Indian temple dancer? ■END■ (10[8]0[14])

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