Romeo and Juliet with a Happy Ending
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posted by Reflections on Dance on July 14, 2008
I first heard Sergey Prokofiev’s music for the ballet Romeo and Juliet when I was about five. My dad played the record and asked me to imagine what it would be like to dance to. I imagined and, once again, scooched chairs around the living room to 5-year-old-heart-on-sleeve-style-dance.Later that week, I put on my favorite dress and accompanied my dad to American Ballet Theater’s Romeo and Juliet at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in L.A. I remember the sweet, mysterious smell of the theater and a jar of candy that a stagehand let me dip into. The sound of the orchestra tuning up was unbearably exciting, topped only by the tapping of toe shoes getting into place before the curtain opened.
Apparently, I danced in the aisle at intermission (I don’t remember). And then I danced at the Jewish Community Center and at countless other studios (I remember) until ending up a choreographer in New York.
I didn’t dance in the aisles at Mark Morris’s Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare at Bard’s Summerscape the other night. But the music (Prokofiev’s original score, recently unearthed by musicologist Simon...
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