Round 7: Tossup 15

This dancer was the inspiration for and one of the original leads in a 1956 ballet based on Tchaikovsky’s third piano concerto, titled Allegro Brillante. As part of a 2025 tribute to this dancer, Indiana Woodward performed the lead role created for this dancer in the ballet Scotch Symphony. In 1974, this dancer founded the Chicago City Ballet, the resident ballet company for the Lyric Opera. This dancer and her younger sister were (10[1])part (10[1])of a group of dancers (10[1])including Rosella (10[1])Hightower and Moscelyne Larkin, called the Five Moons. (10[1])This dancer achieved great popularity (10[1])with her performances as the title role in a 1949 production of The Firebird (10[4])and as (10[1])the Sugar Plum Fairy (10[3]-5[1])in her (10[1])then-husband’s 1954 production of The Nutcracker. For 10 points, what ballerina, once married to George Balanchine, (10[1])was the first Native American (10[1])prima ballerina? ■END■ (10[2]0[2])

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