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Pacific Northwest Ballet Roméo et Juliette Streaming Soon

by News Desk
February 3, 2021
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Pacific Northwest Ballet Romeeo et Juliette

James Yoichi Moore and Noelani Pantastico in Jean-Christophe Maillot's Roméo et Juliette © AngelaSterlingPhoto.com

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Beginning on February 11 and streaming for five days is Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Roméo et Juliette, choreographed by Jean-Christophe Maillot.

This contemporary interpretation of the Shakespearean classic by Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo’s current Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer is a Romeo and Juliet that has been hailed throughout the world as “one of the most beautiful ballets adapted from Shakespeare’s masterpiece that can be seen today” by Scènes Magazine and has been a part of PNB’s repertory since 2008.

This digital presentation was filmed live onstage at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall at Seattle Center.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Roméo et Juliette

From West Side Story to Twilight, Shakespeare’s great romance seems always to find new interpretation, and its tale of forbidden love has been especially enticing to the dance world.

Peter Boal was so mesmerized by Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette when he attended its New York debut in 1999, that it became his first full-length acquisition for PNB as artistic director.

Though Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette is firmly grounded in classical ballet, his choreography is imbued with natural and intuitive movement that feels progressive and expands margins of expression. As the famous story of star-crossed lovers unfolds, the dancers’ swimming hands, flying arms, and off-kilter balances speak for racing hearts, reckless impulses, and inner turmoil.

Stage action is brought into high relief by the ballet’s spare and elegant design. Great washes of blue and gold light reflect the magnitude of Prokofiev’s dramatic score, and the piercing elation and lament of young love project like Hollywood close-ups.

Here are the notes about the production that have been reprinted by Pacific Northwest Ballet with the permission of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo:

Sergei Prokofiev’s glorious ballet score is frequently called his masterpiece. Its thematic melodies—by turns sweetly tender, sweepingly passionate, hotly fierce and chillingly eerie—provide counterpoint and impart eloquent support to the narrative.

In his version of Roméo et Juliette, choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot has taken formal inspiration from the episodic character of Prokofiev’s classic score, structuring the action in a manner akin to cinematic narrative.

Rather than focusing on themes of political-social opposition between the two feuding clans, this Romeo and Juliet highlights the dualities and ambiguities of adolescence. Torn between contradictory impulses, between tenderness and violence, fear and pride, the lovers are caught in the throes of a tragedy that exemplifies their youth and the extreme emotions and internal conflicts that characterize that time of life—a time of life when destiny, more than at any other moment, seems to escape conscious control, and when the inner turmoil occasioned by passions and ideals can sometimes have disproportionate—even fatal—consequences.

In evoking this fragile and volatile state of being, scenic designer Ernest Pignon-Ernest has created a decor marked by transparency and lightness: a play of simple forms that reveals an underlying complexity of meaning.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Roméo et Juliette Casting

  • Juliet: Noelani Pantastico
  • Romeo: James Yoichi MooreFriar Laurence: Miles Pertl
  • Nurse: Margaret Mullin
  • Lady Capulet: Laura Tisserand
  • Tybalt: Seth Orza
  • Mercutio: Jonathan Porretta
  • Benvolio: Benjamin Griffiths
  • Paris: Joshua Grant
  • Acolytes: Kyle Davis and Price Suddarth

Featured Photo for Pacific Northwest Ballet Roméo et Juliette of Noelani Pantastico and James Moore in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Roméo et Juliette © AngelaSterlingPhoto.com.

Tags: Jean-Christophe MaillotPacific Northwest BalletPacific Northwest Ballet 2020-2021 SeasonRomeo and JulietRoméo et Juliette
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