This ballet’s iconic pose features thumbs out, flat fingers angled down in profile, and bent knees and elbows. This ballet’s single high jump inspired a posthumous cast by Rodin. 90 rehearsals were required for the statuesque 2D choreography of this ballet, which inspired a 1953 duet set in a studio by Jerome Robbins. This ballet’s muted backdrop, which is hung from the second wings, depicts a paradise in flat bas-relief (“bah relief”) designed by Léon Bakst. At the end of this ballet, a danseur (“dan-SOOR”) in a cream bodysuit with dark patches mounts a (*) rock and lies erotically on a veil. (10[1])Though this scandalous one-act ballet premiered weeks earlier in 1912, Michel Fokine accused it of stealing from Daphnis et Chloé and left the Ballets Russes (“roose”). This ballet adapts a tone poem that closes in a very tonal E major after reprising a low chromatic flute solo. For 10 points, Vaslav Nijinsky chased nymphs in what ballet inspired by Debussy’s “Prelude to” a Mallarmé poem? ■END■