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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. This choreographer asked the composer of Billy the Kid to score a ballet (-5[1])in which a “Hoe-Down” is danced by cowgirls. (-5[1])For 10 points, Aaron Copland scored what choreographer’s ballet Rodeo ■END■ (0[1])

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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