In a ballet by this choreographer set on a collective farm, the male leader dons pointe shoes and a dress while the female lead wears pants as they dodge a milkmaid and a man in a dog suit riding a bicycle. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Russian-Ukrainian ballet choreographer who left the Bolshoi upon the 2022 Ukraine invasion. This choreographer’s original narrative ballets of the 2000s include Charms of Mannerism and The Bright Stream.
ANSWER: Alexei Ratmansky [or Alexei Osipovich Ratmansky]
[10m] In 2009, Ratmansky became the artist in residence at this company, whose first in-house choreographer was Antony Tudor. Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant founded this New York-based company.
ANSWER: American Ballet Theatre [or ABT]
[10e] This ballerina played the milkmaid in early productions of Ratmansky’s Bright Stream. He also cast her in a breakthrough role in The Firebird, which led her to become ABT’s first Black principal dancer.
ANSWER: Misty Copeland
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