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The first full-length ballet created for this company incorporates music from a composer’s overtures to Athalie (“ah-tah-LEE”) and The Fair Melusine. This company’s contemporary fare includes a Justin Peck ballet set to the music of Sufjan (“SOOF-yahn”) Stevens, titled Year of the Rabbit, and a Christopher Wheeldon ballet setting Ligeti’s piano music, titled Polyphonia. Throughout the 1950s, many of this company’s (-5[1])principal male roles (10[1])were (-5[1])originated by Nicholas Magallanes (“mah-gah-LAH-ness”). In 1956, polio ended the career of this company’s principal dancer, the choreographer’s wife Tanaquil Le Clerq. Lincoln Kirstein (10[1])co-founded this (-5[1])company, whose first prima ballerina was Maria Tallchief. (10[2]-5[1])A Christmas tree grows to 41 (10[1])feet tall (-5[1])in its annual production of The Nutcracker. (-5[2])For 10 points, (-5[1])the David H. Koch (10[1])Theater in (-5[1])Lincoln Center (-5[2])is home to what company, founded by George Balanchine ■END■ (10[4]0[10])

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