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This choreographer set a Boccaccio-inspired libretto to music from Respighi’s Ancient Airs and Dances for a ballet in which this choreographer played a “priggish” virgin who meets the Devil. In the premiere of a ballet by this choreographer, Alicia Alonso danced a pas de deux as a woman called the “Accused.” After watching this choreographer receive 22 curtain calls at a ballet’s premiere, a songwriting duo invited this dancer to choreograph a “dream ballet” in which Laurey “Makes Up Her Mind.” This choreographer adapted the tale of Lizzie Borden in her ballet Fall River Legend. (10[1])This choreographer asked the composer of Billy the Kid to score (-5[1])a ballet in (-5[1])which a (10[1])“Hoe-Down” is danced by cowgirls. For 10 points, Aaron Copland scored what choreographer’s ballet Rodeo ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Agnes de Mille [or Agnes George de Mille] (The first ballet is Three Virgins and a Devil. The “dream ballet” is from Oklahoma!.)
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