Question
In modern performances of the ballet La Bayadère, Nikiya and Solor dance a pas de deux while holding one of these objects. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these objects, an enchanted one of which kills the title character in August Bournonville’s La Sylphide. The evil stepsisters ruin one of these objects in a fight in the first act of Sergei Prokofiev’s Cinderella.
ANSWER: scarves [or scarf; accept shawls; accept wraps]
[10e] A dancer from this country died after her scarf was caught on the wheel of a car. Agnes de Mille choreographed the “Saturday Night Waltz” and “Hoedown” movements of a ballet from this country.
ANSWER: United States of America [or the USA; or America] (The dancer was Isadora Duncan. The ballet is Rodeo.)
[10m] This composer’s music accompanies a ballet in which Vaslav Nijinsky has a steamy encounter with a scarf left behind by a nymph. Another of his erotically-charged ballets concerns three people looking for a tennis ball.
ANSWER: Claude Debussy [or Achille-Claude Debussy] (The ballets are Afternoon of a Faun and Jeux.)
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia A | Indiana A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell A | WUSTL A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Florida B | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Chicago A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Harvard A | MIT A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois A | Rutgers A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Imperial A | Purdue A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Houston A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| McGill A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota A | North Carolina A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Northwestern A | Chicago C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ohio State A | Florida A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Penn State A | Claremont A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers B | Minnesota B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | WUSTL B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford A | Duke A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | UC Berkeley A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UC Berkeley B | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt A | Michigan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Virginia A | Penn A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Brown A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale B | Iowa State A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |