Question
These two dancers reunited for the last time in 1988 after one had become director of the Paris Opera Ballet and the other had retired to be a cattle rancher with her Panamanian husband. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this duo. The older dancer, an English prima ballerina assoluta for the Royal Ballet, delayed her retirement for more than fifteen years to partner with the other, the first major Soviet dancer to defect to the West.
ANSWER: Margot Fonteyn AND Rudolf Nureyev [prompt on partial answer]
[10h] In Fonteyn's last performance, she participated in a “Baroque” dance of this type. One of these dances is scored in the first scene of Marius Petipa's Swan Lake, immediately after the entrance of Siegfried.
ANSWER: pas de trois [accept Baroque Pas de Trois]
[10e] Despite not being the intended performers, Fonteyn and Nureyev premiered Kenneth MacMillan’s 1965 production of this Prokofiev ballet. The original “happy ending” to this ballet removed its two protagonists’ deaths.
ANSWER: Romeo and Juliet [or Romeo i Dzhulyetta]
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