Question
Answer the following about ballets titled for the color red, for 10 points each.
[10e] This politician and his wife watch the ballet The Red Detachment of Women in a John Adams opera that fictionalizes his 1972 visit to China.
ANSWER: Richard Nixon [or Richard Milhous Nixon; accept Nixon in China]
[10m] Reinhold Glière’s ballet The Red Poppy popularized the yablochko (“YA-blutch-kuh”), or “little apple,” a Russian folk dance associated with people of this profession. In the UK, people of this profession often performed the hornpipe dance.
ANSWER: sailors [accept Russian sailors’ dance or “Dance of the Sailors from the Soviet Ship”; accept Sailor’s Hornpipe; accept mariners]
[10h] This choreographer used Bernard Herrmann’s film scores for the music of a ballet adaptation of the Powell and Pressburger film The Red Shoes. Male dancers play the swans in this choreographer’s version of Swan Lake.
ANSWER: Matthew Bourne [or Matthew Christopher Bourne]
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Summary
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