Question

A choreographer from this country created hundreds of dances in a few years for his troupe Choreographic Miniatures. This country’s pantomime-heavy “dram-ballets” (“drahm-bal-ays”) include one that contains a pas de deux between Jeanne and Philippe, The Flames of Paris. A (10[1])member of this country’s Messerer (“meh-seh-RAIR”) family of dancers taught the star of Alberto Alonso’s Carmen Suite. A woman from (-5[1])this country wrote Basic Principles (-5[1])of Classical Ballet, which details the slow-and-steady approach to her namesake method of teaching. (10[4]-5[2])A tea-house dancer sends a ship captain the title poppy in a ballet from this country (10[1])with an (10[1])oft-excerpted (10[1])“Sailors’ Dance.” (10[1]-5[1])A composer from this country wrote (10[1])“adagios” for his ballets (10[1])Gayane (10[2]-5[1])(“gah-yah-NAY”) and (10[1])Spartacus. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this country whose biggest theaters included the Kirov and the Bolshoi. (10[2])■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: Soviet Union [or USSR or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; or CCCP or SSSR or Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik; accept Russia or Rossiya; accept Russian Federation or Rossiyskaya Federatsiya; accept Soviet Armenia, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, Hayastan, or Haykakan] (The clues include the choreographer Leonid Yakobson, the dancer Maya Plisetskaya, Agrippina Vaganova, The Red Poppy, and Aram Khachaturian.)
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Summary

2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y22100%0%27%101.45

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Michał GerasimiukYale AColumbia A3810
Natan HoltzmanStanford ANYU A57-5
Drake EshlemanIndiana AYale B62-5
Arjun NageswaranHarvard AHouston A7610
Raymond WangCornell AChicago B76-5
Ani PerumallaPenn State AMIT A7610
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota ARutgers A7610
Vedul PalavajjhalaWUSTL BOhio State A76-5
Justin WytmarIllinois ADuke A7610
Walter ZhangBrown AGeorgia Tech B9210
Dean Ah NowClaremont AMinnesota B9410
Matthew LehmannWUSTL APurdue A9510
Sky LiToronto AColumbia B9710
Sharath NarayanNorthwestern ACornell B97-5
Jeya IyaduraiFlorida BMichigan A10310
Eve FleisigUC Berkeley AIowa State A10710
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt AChicago A108-5
Jim FanNorth Carolina AVirginia A10810
Karan GurazadaTexas AUC Berkeley B10810
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech AChicago C10910
Collin AceRutgers BMcGill A11010
Caleb KendrickMaryland APenn A11310
Frederick Rivas-GiorgiYale BIndiana A12510
Daniel YangChicago BCornell A12510
Halle FriedmanNYU AStanford A12610
Matt JacksonChicago AVanderbilt A12610
Richard NiuCornell BNorthwestern A12610
Chris RayOhio State AWUSTL B12610