Question
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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Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Sheffield | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 50% | 100% | 50% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 33% | 67% | 33% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 67% | 67% | 100% |
Data
| Berkeley A | Stanford B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| It's Joever | [Insert Lawyer Joke Here] | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |