Miami City Ballet revives the ultimate Shakespearean romantic tragedy for it's 2014/15 season, with John Cranko's classic choreography in a lush, vivid production that closed their 25th Anniversary season in 2011.
Cranko's choreography may have been originally conceived in 1963, but it is still an enduring, larger than life vision of the star-crossed lovers. The frivolity and joyous movement of large gatherings of dancers is contrasted neatly by the threat of violence that underlines the play.
There are sweeping panoramic scenes that have a cinematic feel as the romance is elegantly placed, as the doomed pair lead up to their terrible end.
A must see for fans of classical ballet and a hankering for the graceful, yet tragic story, set against the hauntingly beautiful score by Prokofeiv
Synopsis
In 16th Century Verona, there are heated tensions between sworn enemies Montagues and Capulets. Their vicious hatred of one another is famed throughout the city, as is their often fatal sword play.
Romeo, the youngest of the Montague clan, is depressed after falling for a girl who spurned his advances, persuaded by cousin Tybalt, he sneaks into a Capulet ball in the hopes of finding her, that is, until he sees Juliet and falls deeply and immediately in love.
So begins a tale that has gone on to become our greatest, tragic story of young love doomed from the start.