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NYC Ballet Presents Romeo + Juliet
Shakespeare classic performed by reparatory
Robert Fairchild and Sterling Hyltin and in Peter Martins’ NYC Ballet production of Romeo + Juliet
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“Two households, both alike in dignity. In fair Verona, where we lay our scene…”
So begins William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet. The tale of young love, destiny, and family feuds will take the stage in dance form as New York City Ballet’s Winter Reparatory schedule kicks into high gear. The ballet will enjoy performances January 13, 15–17, 21 and 23, 2009.
Choreographed by Peter Martins, the ballet first hit the boards in the Spring of 2007 to positive critical and audience reception and was once again performed earlier this season—most notably in a “Live from Lincoln Center” performance last Spring. Centered upon the story of star-crossed Romeo and Juliet, children of violently opposing families, the Shakespearean classic is perhaps the world’s most widely known love story. Martins’ interpretation tackles the story with zest. His young dancers bring the right amount of innocence and exuberance to their roles and older experts, adept at their craft and well learned in the art of performance, bring a sense of dignity to the roles of Verona’s adults.
Martins’ Romeo + Juliet is a ballet for the modern age—a piece as aware of the purity of new love as it is the violence of deep-seeded hatred. This isn’t your grandmother’s idea of a ballet, and that’s a good thing. Often forgotten in the frills of fairytale love, is the reality of the Romeo + Juliet story. Verona is a violent and dangerous place, and the pair doesn’t exactly get a happily-ever-after. Martins’ inclusion (and choreographing) of these plot-points makes for a deeply layered, and deeply thrilling experience.
For more information, please visit www.nycballet.com.