Packet 8: Bonus 3

A genre of ballet named for the French word for this color includes the Kingdom of the Shades scene from La Bayadère. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this color worn by Odette, the heroine of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.
ANSWER: white [or blanc; accept ballet blanc]
[10h] The first ballet blanc was this sequence from an 1831 opera. This ballet’s role of Helena was danced by Marie Taglioni, the daughter of the ballet’s choreographer, Filippo Taglioni.
ANSWER: Ballet of the Nuns from Robert le diable [or Ballet of the Damned Nuns; or Le ballet des nonnes damnées; prompt on Robert le diable or Robert the Devil]
[10m] This Russian choreographer for the Ballets Russes helped to revive the ballet blanc tradition in the 20th century with his choreography for Les Sylphides (“lay sil-FEED”). He was the original choreographer for Petrushka.
ANSWER: Michel Fokine (“foh-KEEN”) [or Michael Fokine]
<Columbia A, Other Fine Arts> | H. Prelims 8 - Stanford A + Georgia Tech C + Columbia A + Columbia B

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3TotalParts
BrownUC Berkeley B100010E
CambridgeBritish Columbia100010E
Chicago AWashU100010E
GeorgetownSwarthmore100010E
Georgia Tech ATexas100010E
Georgia Tech BToronto A100010E
HarvardOhio State100010E
Illinois BChicago B100010E
Maryland ANYU B0000
MichiganBruin100010E
Northwestern BVanderbilt100010E
PittsburghMIT1001020EM
PurdueMinnesota0000
RutgersNorth Carolina100010E
Stanford BIllinois A1001020EM
Toronto BNorthwestern A1001020EM
UCLAMaryland B1001020EM
VirginiaUC Berkeley A1010020EH
Virginia TechPenn State1010020EH
WaterlooIndiana1001020EM

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
Main Site2026-04-17✓2012.5090%25%10%