{"id":10276,"date":"2016-10-17T09:35:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T14:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/?p=10276"},"modified":"2016-10-17T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T14:40:08","slug":"romeo-and-juliet-joffrey-ballet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/romeo-and-juliet-joffrey-ballet\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Playing: Krzysztof’s Romeo and Juliet at the Joffrey Ballet"},"content":{"rendered":"

A raw and riveting interpretation of a timeless story<\/h2>\n

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The\u00a0Joffrey Ballet Company<\/a>\u00a0opens its 2016-2017 season this month with Polish National Ballet Director Krzysztof Pastor\u2019s\u00a0Romeo and Juliet<\/em>. Anyone who has experienced love and loss will\u00a0enjoy this passionate, breathtaking performance of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy.<\/p>\n

Although the ballet is in three acts instead of five like Shakespeare’s play, none of it feels rushed. All of the rising action, for the most part,\u00a0follows Shakespeare’s storyline pretty precisely. In fact, the balcony scene takes place nearly an hour\u00a0into the two-hour performance. Pastor’s\u00a0version begins to differ when the plot\u00a0becomes more complicated, after Romeo flees Verona. Where the play\u00a0relies on language, the ballet relies on raw emotion.<\/p>\n

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Performance Highlights<\/h2>\n
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Yoshi’s Joffrey Commercial break. #openingnight #mercutio #joffreyballet @yoshihisaarai<\/a><\/p>\n

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