Chicago Dance Review: ROMEO AND JULIET (Joffrey Ballet at Auditorium Theatre)
PROKOFIEV GETS POLITICAL This is not your usual Romeo and Juliet. Truncated and concentrated, Joffrey Ballet's U.S. premiere of Krzysztof Pastor's two-act treatment of Profofiev's celebrated ballet carries no Renaissance finery, just real-world immediacy. Premiered by the Scottish Ballet in 2008, this muscular treatment of ancient Verona isolates the lovers all the more against a […]