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  1. Juliet & Romeo review

    Royal Swedish Ballet's Juliet & Romeo. Photograph: Tristram Kenton. If this sounds like a Marxist, determinist reading of Shakespeare, it is also an astoundingly vivid one. Ek's stage is a ...

  2. Core appreciation

    An extensive digital resource package exploring Juliet and Romeo. A HSC dance course prescriptions 2022-2024 resource. Core appreciation - Mats Ek - Juliet and Romeo (2013) This resource package provides insight into: and classroom ready resources. The HSC hub was created in 2020 - some resources may contain references to 2020 conditions and ...

  3. Royal Swedish Ballet: Mats Ek's Juliet and Romeo

    Mats Ek has always taken a radical line with the ballet repertory, and it's clear from the title that his new Juliet and Romeo comes with maverick intent. But in contrast, say, with his ...

  4. A modern interpretation frees dancers: US première of Mats Ek's Juliet

    A lot apparently. Celebrated Swedish choreographer, Mats Ek, brings his Juliet and Romeo to the USA with the Royal Swedish Ballet, declaring about his re-ordering of the title, that it's 'time to turn the tables'. But, as he points out, one of Shakespeare's early drafts had it that way too, so maybe he is just reverting to the original.

  5. Juliet and Romeo by Mats Ek

    Juliet and Romeo - Ballet in 2 Acts. choreography by Mats Ek. on music by Tchaikovsky. performed by Royal Swedish Ballet and Royal Swedish Orchestra. staging design by Magdalena Agberg. recorded in 2014 at the Royal Opera House in London. Juliet: Mariko Kida.

  6. Royal Swedish Ballet's Julia and Romeo : surreal and modern

    Mats Ek's take on Romeo and Juliet was made a decade ago to celebrate the 250 th anniversary of the founding of Royal Swedish Ballet. The inversion of Shakespeare's title not only brings Julia (as she is called here) rightly to the fore, but it also serves as a metaphor for the traditional narrative being turned inside out. It seems as if ...

  7. Mats Ek's Juliet & Romeo, music by Tchaikovsky

    After Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, and Carmen, Mats Ek put together yet another groundbreaking production with his 2013 Stockholm Opera version of Shakespeare's mythic drama, part of the opera company's celebrations of its 240th anniversary.The Swedish choreographer interprets Romeo and Juliet as less the story of a rivalry between two warring families (the Montagues and the Capulets) and ...

  8. PDF "It's time to turn the tables"

    INTERVIEW WITH MATS EK Why Juliet & Romeo? It's time to turn the tables, says Mats Ek. Besides, one of Shakespeare's early drafts was actually called Juliet and Romeo. So you could say that we're going back to the source. We're also pointing out that we are using Tchaikovsky's music, not the usual music by Prokofiev.

  9. Royal Swedish Ballet in Mats Ek's Juliet and Romeo

    June 1, 2016. Carmel Morgan. Mats Ek's Juliet and Romeo, which had its North American premiere at the Kennedy Center, left me bereft, not because I was moved by the deaths of the young lovers, but because I wasn't moved at all. This version of Shakespeare's tragedy is cold and dark, literally quite dark thanks to Linus Fellbom's lighting.

  10. Juliet & Romeo

    The title of Mats Ek's commission for the Royal Swedish Ballet clearly indicates his desire to be different, so it's no surprise that his 2013 version of Shakespeare's classic romantic tragedy elects not to use Prokofiev's score, instead cobbling together bits and pieces from Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, First Piano Concerto, Capriccio Italien, Variations on a Rococo Theme, and other works.

  11. Mats Ek's Juliet and Romeo at The Kennedy Center (review)

    The audience in the Opera House at the Kennedy Center last night was buzzing for the North American Premiere of Juliet and Romeo by the choreographer Mats Ek, performed by the Swedish National Ballet. The large European ballet companies are better-funded and simply better than many U.S. companies and while Ek is lesser-known (even among those who love Bejart and Kylian) he's a brilliant ...

  12. REVIEW: Mats Ek's 'Juliet & Romeo' by Royal Swedish Ballet

    Romeo's slaying of Tybalt is even harder to believe: as he springs back and forth over Tybalt's body, the effect is more Footloose than Fight Club. Overall, though, Ek's stripped-down, switched-up version of the story strikes a relevant, if uncomfortable chord. Its beauty lies in its stark truthfulness, even if, as Ek is fond of saying, beauty ...

  13. 'Juliet and Romeo'? Royal Swedish Ballet gives Shakespeare a twist at

    Choreographing "Juliet and Romeo" in the wake of the Arab Spring, Ek also drew parallels between the lovers' fervor for each other and the fearlessness of Arab youth, such as the self ...

  14. North American Premiere for Mats Ek's Juliet & Romeo

    In 2013, the Royal Swedish Ballet celebrated its 240th birthday. Never a company to be mired in tradition, RSB commissioned prolific and provocative contemporary choreographer Mats Ek to create a new version of Romeo and Juliet.True to form, Ek turned the ballet on its head, reversing the title, using new music and creating a world of simmering brutality.

  15. Getting to the heart of the matter: a conversation with Mats Ek

    For the first time the Positano Prize was partnered with the Benois de la Danse prize, which went to Mariko Kida, who created the role of Juliet in Ek's "Juliet and Romeo". In August 2014, Ek received an honorary professorship from the Swedish Ministry of Culture. The award dates back to the 18th century and is given in recognition of ...

  16. Royal Swedish Ballet in Mats Ek's Juliet & Romeo

    Royal Swedish Ballet: Mats Ek's Juliet & Romeo. Royal Swedish Ballet, Juliet & Romeo, Sadler's Wells, September 27. When you are familiar with a particular interpretation of a classic work it tends to provide an emotional and intellectual framework to which a new one will inevitably be compared. The first Romeo and Juliet I saw was Sir ...

  17. Royal Swedish Ballet's stunning, unconventional 'Juliet and Romeo' soon

    With a history that stretches back to 1773, you'd expect the esteemed Royal Swedish Ballet to offer a "Romeo and Juliet" full of swordplay and courtly gowns. But no — not when master choreographer Mats Ek is in charge. He reimagined the tragic love story in 2013 with the same urban, gritty edge that he's given "Giselle," "Swan Lake" and "Sleeping Beauty."

  18. Mats Ek's Juliet and Romeo, Royal Swedish Ballet

    Mats Ek's Juliet & Romeo, Royal Swedish Ballet. 'Juliet and Romeo', a modern Mats Ek ballet of the star-crossed lovers, performs this November at Sadler's Wells. An exciting contemporary take on the heartbreak and passion of the most famous of all lovers comes to Sadler's Wells by controversial choreographer Mats Ek: Juliet and Romeo.

  19. Romeo and Juliet: A+ Student Essay

    It's true that Romeo and Juliet have some spectacularly bad luck. Tybalt picks a fatal fight with Romeo on the latter's wedding day, causing Capulet to move up the wedding with Paris. The crucial letter from Friar Lawrence goes missing due to an ill-timed outbreak of the plague. Romeo kills himself mere moments before Juliet wakes up.

  20. Mats Ek: Juliet & Romeo

    Choreographer Mats Ek has taken on the story of Romeo and Juliet and turned it into something new, insightful and unexpected. Instead of the traditional Prokofiev score, Mats Ek opted for passages from Thchaikovsky's music, creating a custom score. The music emphasizes the story revealing a tale that goes deeper than just romance.

  21. Mats Ek, the Swedish Choreographer, Says His Goodbye Isn't Quite a

    In fact, Mr. Ek's schedule will not be entirely cleared for some time. His full-length "Juliet and Romeo," created for the Royal Swedish Ballet in 2013, will tour the United States in late ...

  22. Essay on Mats Ek

    Mats Ek essay. Mats Ek is a world renowned choreographer, known for his works adapting classic ballets into ground breaking, game changing modern works of art. Mats Ek was born in Malmo Sweden in 1945, son of the choreographer Brigit Cullberg and Ander Ek, a famous Swedish actor. The young Mats Ek did not particularly want to be a dancer, and ...

  23. Watch Mats Ek: Juliet & Romeo

    Mats Ek: Juliet & Romeo. Choreographer Mats Ek takes on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet creating something wholly new with the Royal Swedish Ballet. 1 h 47 min 2013.

  24. Romeo and Juliet Themes Sheet

    pdf, 364.84 KB. This resource provides top-grade essay ideas for exam questions about Shakepeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'. Revising 'Romeo and Juliet' themes is made simple, with three points on each theme (11 themes total) that are designed to make three high-level paragraphs for your Romeo and Juliet essays. This resource suits anyone who:

  25. Romeo And Juliet Essay

    721 Words3 Pages. "There are some tragedies that never should have happened but did.". This quote by Sue Wilder encapsulates the story of Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare. In the story, two young lovers are driven to death because their families will not allow them to marry. The tragedy was unnecessary and never should have happened if ...