Romeo and Juliet Suite at Bram Goldsmith Theater at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

In a stunning Los Angeles debut, choreographer Benjamin Millepied offers an innovative and contemporary vision of Prokofiev’s masterpiece Romeo & Juliet. Navigating between film, dance and theater, Millepied reinterprets Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers as young adults in an urban environment where social norms prevent them from living out their love story. Each performance features a different cast of dancers mixing genders and roles in a never before seen celebration of love. On stage and off, the plot unfolds interweaving each unexpected place inside the theater and backstage, allowing audiences to experience parts of The Wallis they have never seen. Tableaux are broadcast in real time, from unexpected places inside the theater and backstage. The dancers, filmed live, pass from stage to screen.