LADP PERFORMS: ROMEO + JULIET SUITE
Spoleto Festival
Charleston Gaillard Center
95 Calhoun St.
Charleston, SC 29401
Saturday, May 25, 2024 | 2:00 pm + 7:00pm
Sunday, May 26, 2024 | 2:00 pm + 7:00pm
From acclaimed choreographer Benjamin Millepied comes a bold, multidisciplinary reenvisioning of Shakespeare’s tragedy with Prokofiev’s lush score. Set in a modern metropolis, the titular duo are recast as diverse young adults: rotating between male/female, male/male, and female/female pairings. The fast-paced drama unfolds both on and beyond the Gaillard stage through live video, a state-of-the-art projection system, and accompaniment by the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra under the baton of Orchestra Music Director Timothy Myers. Hailed by The New Yorker as “startling, dazzling, and wrenching in equal measure,” Romeo and Juliet offers a riveting treatise on the recklessness of young love.