A dazzling performance by the Georgia Ballet for 3 days
"Romeo and Juliet" .. The most famous lovers in history on the stage of "Dubai Opera"
The artists succeeded in dazzling the audience with their rising steps and flying through the air.
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The two lovers' journey, which begins with love and ends with death, is narrated by the show following the footsteps of the artists.
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To the tune of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, the Georgian Ballet Company presented its dance performance of "Romeo and Juliet" on the stage of "Dubai Opera", as it entertained the city's audience with its performance over three days.
A journey that begins with love and ends with death, told by the show following the footsteps of the artists who volunteered their bodies to express all the meanings of fear and conflicts and to pass love and reach death for it, and they succeeded in providing all these details through graceful and calm steps, as the band chose to embody the most famous love story throughout history. And she succeeded in creating new creative dimensions through music that embodies both beautiful and painful events.
The show is based on the classic drama engraved in memory, and therefore does not aspire to provide a new dose of drama, as much as it allows the audience to enjoy the show as a language based on the stage, capable of telling the story in all its details.
Music fuses with the artists’ steps in the show to form one entity that pours in front of the audience creative scenes characterized by high craftsmanship.
In the show, the artists depict all the events in a dramatic atmosphere, dazzling the audience with the rising steps and flying in the air, while all the decor and lighting on the stage complement this scene.
The impossible love
The theatrical scenography adopted during the show “Romeo and Juliet” divided into two scenes, is complex and unpretentious, as it relies a lot on lighting, and allows artists to own their space for graceful successive steps, or dancing flying.
The show, based on William Shakespeare's masterpiece of the same name, revolves around the impossible love story between Romeo and Juliet, two families in disputes that make their love story more difficult to complete.
The first scene of the two-hour show depicts the beginning of the love story between Romeo and Juliet, and the difficulties that accompanied it.
As for the second scene, it comes loaded with many accelerated events that begin with the secret marriage of Romeo and Juliet, and then Juliet’s family’s desire to marry her from “Paris”, so all she has to do is go to the priest who married her to offer her a drink that enables her to sleep two consecutive days until the family thinks that she is dead. And then collects her husband.
These events lead to the tragic end when the beloved does not reach Romeo, but he is informed of her death, due to the spread of the plague, so he decides to commit suicide by taking poison, and Juliet kills herself when she sees him dead.
The scene of death and burial, which was at the end of the dance, was completely acting, devoid of show, and carried a lot of sadness and sorrow with the death of the two lovers, and the beginning of a new page between the two families.
romantic music
The music presented by the international composer Sergei Prokofiev was a summary of the events presented on the stage, as it tended to dreamy romance in the first scene, and highly expresses feelings of love.
In the second scene, the music was of varying rhythms, sometimes characterized by strength to embody conflicts and other times carrying a lot of sadness, especially in moments of separation and death.
This integrated scene of dance and music was based on the impressive performance of the band, which succeeded in presenting the tale with a silent show that captivated the audience from beginning to end.
Despite the seriousness of the theatrical work, it included some comedic shots, which created a state of fun among the audience.
A special mixture of love, drama and fun brought together by the show, and confirms that the play carries with it a love story that can be presented at all times.
Inspirational play
The play "Romeo and Juliet", written by the English author William Shakespeare, between 1593 and 1596, belongs to the classics of world literature, and is one of the most important works presented on international theaters as well as in films, and has been translated into several languages.
The scenes of the play inspired many painters to present them in paintings.
The play takes the Italian city of Verona as the scene of its events, and although Shakespeare did not specify the date of its events, it is believed that it took place between 1260 and 1367 AD.
• A special mixture of love, drama and fun brought together by the show, and confirms that the play is a love story that can be presented at all times.
• Despite the seriousness of the theatrical work, it included some comedic shots that created a state of fun among the audience.
• The show is based on the classic drama engraved in memory, and therefore does not aspire to provide a new dose of drama, as much as it allows the audience to enjoy the show in a special language.
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