(Wlodarkiewicz "conducts" the score from his laptop.) B-boys from the Flavor Group fight on the streets of Verona with the martial arts daredevils of Wushu West.īenvolio and Mercutio are break dancers (Prem Kumta and Shawn Hallman), and Hallman especially stirs mayhem at the Capulet ballet with mind-blowing corkscrew head-turns. Mark Jan Wlodarkiewicz, music editor for the 1996 Leonardo DiCaprio "Romeo + Juliet" film, has smartly condensed the Prokofiev score to an action-filled hour, and even layered phat hip-hop beats under certain scenes. That he's tapped these talents from a spectrum of disciplines only heightens the fun. And it was worth the wetness, and the wait.Īs in his "fire operas," when he tapped San Francisco Opera stage director Roy Rallo, Sturtz has commissioned professional talent for his hearts-aflame take on Shakespeare. In 2004, he produced his first "fire opera," "Dido and Aeneas" he's also since produced "The Seven Deadly Sins." But "Romeo and Juliet" was his first foray into ballet. In 1999, he founded the West Oakland workshop to offer community classes in the "fire arts": welding, blacksmithing and less practical applications like flame throwing and fire swallowing. Both responses are a tribute to the reputation of Michael Sturtz, executive director of the Crucible. The Oakland Fire Department rushed over to replace the broken sprinkler - and a large crowd cheerfully waited an hour and a half in a frigid warehouse for the show to go on. Hauser, Comcast NBCUniversal, and Lincoln Center’s generous donors and supporters.Only when one of the slippery-handed aerial dancers cried out, "Someone let us down!" did it dawn on many viewers that the emergency sprinklers had just been accidentally triggered. Additional support is provided by PGIM, the Global Investment Management Business of Prudential Financial, Inc., Rita E. Lincoln Center at Home is made possible by Founding Partner The Audrey and Martin Gruss Discovery Fund. Mellon Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Nora and James Orphanides, Orphanides & Associates LLC, Stuart Coleman, the Blavatnik Family Foundation Fund for Dance and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Additional support provided by The Andrew W. Lincoln Center at the Movies: Great American Dance is made possible by Founding Partners Jody and John Arnhold and the Howard Gilman Foundation.
Additional support was provided by The Diana Dollar Knowles Foundation and Denise Littlefield Sobel. San Francisco Ballet’s production of Romeo & Juliet for Lincoln Center at the Movies: Great American Dance was made possible by First Republic Bank.
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