Which quotation from a dance scholar would best support the text's cl… | Verbal SAT Question

Ballet Nepantla of New York City is one of the many dance companies in the United States devoted to baile folklorico, a style of dance that has flourished in Mexico and in Mexican American communities alike. Although it represents the hybridization of the Indigenous dance traditions of Mexico with dances brought there by Spanish colonizers beginning in the 1500s, baile folklorico emerged with its present array of formal attributes only in the 1950s, when choreographer Amalia Hernandez adapted the traditionally participatory dances of Mexico for performance before a passive audience in a theater setting, interpolating into them elements of the staging and elaborate choreography of modern dance and classical ballet.

Which quotation from a dance scholar would best support the text’s claim about the role of Amalia Hernandez in the evolution of baile folklorico?

The influence that modern dance and classical ballet exerted on Hernandez can be seen in the complex and precisely orchestrated movements and spectator-focused orientation that continue to define baile folklorico.

By reaffirming baile folklorico as a hybrid of Indigenous and colonial Spanish traditions, Hernandez’s choreography had broad societal implications, fostering a sense of collective identity in Mexico and, later, in Mexican American communities.

Hernandez’s reliance on classical ballet and modern dance has been exaggerated; the subject matter and gestural vocabulary of baile folklorico as popularized by her company remain rooted in the communal dances of Indigenous and colonial Spanish societies.

Certain dances popularized by Hernandez beginning in the 1950s appear in the repertoires of dance companies throughout Mexico and the United States but are nonetheless associated with specific Indigenous groups, specific colonial Spanish dances, or both.