Romeo and Juliet romance comes alive in dance
South African choreographer John Cranko's beloved classic heads to Singapore.
JOHN Cranko's Romeo and Juliet is widely acclaimed as the best dance treatment of Sergei Prokofiev's celebrated ballet score. The piece the South African choreographer created for the Stuttgart Ballet in 1962 gave the company a huge lift in the ballet world, where it has been well regarded since, no less for the way it nurtures choreographic talent.
Stuttgart Ballet Company now brings this beloved classic - which is distinctively Cranko's style - to Singapore. Through this production, the audience here will see why Cranko's work has been described as "a representation of life itself", and marvel at the pas de deux he created for it.
It is the storytelling that endears it to the audience, noted Reid Anderson, who has been the artistic director of the company since 1996, after having been soloist and principal dancer in the preceding decades.
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