ballet by Izadora Weiss - Romeo and Juliet
music by Prokofiev, Lisa Gerrard, Glass, Santaolalla, Beethoven, Bebe
choreographer Izadora Weiss
set designer Radosław Moenert, Paweł Nurkowski
costumes designer Hanna Szymczak
first performance May 15th, 2009
duration ~1h 50'
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.
The story of mythical lovers takes place in modern Baghdad. Juliet comes from rich, local family and is enmeshed in contradictions between her modern education and desires and imposed on her by her tradition and culture very strictly defined rules and prohibitions. Her mother and father have no doubts that obedience is her most important duty because it is them who represent will of society and God. Her brother Tibalt, with whom she grew up, is a strict, jealous guardian who does not take into account that her desires and opinions can differ from commonly accepted norm. Her only true friend is Nanny who manoeuvres on thin border between tradition, shamanism and love for forbidden freedom. Romeo is a soldier, one from many sent there on a stabilization mission. It is not important where he comes from. Maybe Spain? It is important though, he comes from foreign culture that is perceived here as a threat to local values. It is important he is an enemy and is of different faith. The meeting of two of them is from the very beginning, stigmatized with inevitable defeat. Their sudden love brings death and suffering.
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