This dancer choreographed a film scene in which a quartet of ballerinas dance to no music because of an emperor’s decree against ballet in opera. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this choreographer of films such as Amadeus and Ragtime, as well as multiple ballets based on the work of Frank Sinatra.
ANSWER: Twyla Tharp
[10e] Tharp’s first film choreography was for the 1979 adaptation of this musical. Hippies imitate the movement and trotting of police horses in this movie musical’s opening song, “Aquarius.”
ANSWER: Hair
[10m] Tharp’s choreography for the “crossover ballet” Push Comes to Shove was created to spotlight this dancer, a defector from the Soviet Union who also played ballet dancers in films such as The Turning Point.
ANSWER: Mikhail (Nikolayevich) Baryshnikov
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