Round 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,” and a grand pas classique whose 24 dancers enter one-by-one with an arabesque into a cambré. After smoking (*) opium, (10[2])the grief-stricken warrior Solor dreams of the Kingdom of the Shades in a scene from this ballet where he is united with his beloved Nikiya. This 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[1]0[2])

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