Question
Jennifer Homans’s 2022 biography of this choreographer centers his love of women as his main subject, linking creatively fallow periods to his relationship with Vera Zorina and his unrequited love of Suzanne Farrell. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this choreographer who founded the School of American Ballet after being invited to the US by Lincoln Kirstein. This Georgian-American choreographer created a 1954 version of The Nutcracker.
ANSWER: George Balanchine
[10m] In a 2011 history of ballet titled for this character, Homans argues that ballet is dying. George Balanchine choreographed an Igor Stravinsky ballet named for this character often considered the first neoclassical ballet.
ANSWER: Apollo [or Apollo; accept Apollo musagete; accept Apollo’s Angels]
[10h] Balanchine wrote Themes and Variations for this ballerina by inserting difficult moves, asking if she could do them, and waiting until she said no; she never did. This blind Cuban dancer founded Cuba’s National Ballet.
ANSWER: Alicia Alonso
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Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 10.00 | 75% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 3.33 | 33% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 6 | 10.00 | 67% | 17% | 17% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 3.33 | 33% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 80% | 20% | 20% |