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,” (-5[1])and a grand pas classique whose 24 dancers enter one-by-one with an arabesque into a cambré. After smoking (*) opium, the grief-stricken warrior Solor dreams of the Kingdom of the Shades in a scene from this ballet (10[1])where he is united with his beloved Nikiya. (10[1])This 1877 ballet was the most successful collaboration between the creators of Don Quixote. For 10 points, Ludwig Minkus and Marius Petipa created what ballet about an Indian temple dancer? ■END■

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