Romeo and Juliet
By: Izadora WeissFrom the repertoire of Baltic Dance Theater

By: Izadora Weiss
Styles: Contemporary, Modern, Dance Theater
Music: Bebe, Beethoven, Glass, Lisa Gerrard, Prokofiev, Santaolalla
Sets: Paweł Nurkowski, Radosław Moenert
Costume: Hanna Szymczak
Year of creation: 2009
Length: 110 Minutes






This story can take place anywhere and any time. It's characters are lovers against whole world. Even their closest relatives are of no support to them. Shakespearean myth of Romeo and Juliet often takes on real form. How many times it happened in the history of love that lovers were victims to artificial barriers and conflicts? The story in the performance of Izadora Weiss also rests on Shakespearean motives but choreographer set the stage in well known for us all modern times. As always she has personally chosen music as she believes that story, music and dance always make a harmonic whole. It would be an author's performance taking it's inspiration from many sources. Following a sometimes commonly known trail and exploiting functioning in culture metaphors she appeals mostly to her own imagination and very personal understanding of the world where defence of basic values is a vocation of every man alive. Multimedia stage design makes use of video projections to set up particular places and support emotions coming from music and choreography. Modern costumes are adapted in their simplicity to ballet tasks but their quality and refinement are crucial element of artistic whole. Choreography is a unity of modern techniques and original language characteristic to performances of Izadora Weiss.
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