In modern performances of the ballet La Bayadère, Nikiya and Solor dance a pas de deux while holding one of these objects. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these objects, an enchanted one of which kills the title character in August Bournonville’s La Sylphide. The evil stepsisters ruin one of these objects in a fight in the first act of Sergei Prokofiev’s Cinderella.
ANSWER: scarves [or scarf; accept shawls; accept wraps]
[10e] A dancer from this country died after her scarf was caught on the wheel of a car. Agnes de Mille choreographed the “Saturday Night Waltz” and “Hoedown” movements of a ballet from this country.
ANSWER: United States of America [or the USA; or America] (The dancer was Isadora Duncan. The ballet is Rodeo.)
[10m] This composer’s music accompanies a ballet in which Vaslav Nijinsky has a steamy encounter with a scarf left behind by a nymph. Another of his erotically-charged ballets concerns three people looking for a tennis ball.
ANSWER: Claude Debussy [or Achille-Claude Debussy] (The ballets are Afternoon of a Faun and Jeux.)
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