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“And Romeo and Juliet lived happily ever after.” Efforts to uncross the stars of these star-crossed lovers began in Shakespeare’s day. His great Spanish contemporary Lope de Vega, using much the same sources, wrote “The Capulets and Montagues,” a tragicomedy (with plenty of comedy) in which Romeo and Juliet escape together from the tomb and reconcile with her family in due course.

Now, at Bard Summerscape, comes the world premiere of Prokofiev’s original 1936 account of the ballet “Romeo and Juliet, on Motifs of Shakespeare,” in which, unlike the later versions, both lovers are saved from death and given a dance-dance-dance apotheosis. Prof. Simon Morrison of Princeton, who found this score in Russian archives, has restored it, with the orchestration of four passages realized by Gregory Spears from Prokofiev’s manuscript annotations. We don’t just hear the score; we also see Mark Morris’s new choreographic version of it.

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The american choreographer Meg Stuart received the prestigious French Prize of Criticism for 'best foreign performance' in Paris. The prize was awarded for her creation "Blessed", performed by Francisco Camacho and Kotomi Nishiwaki. A production by Damaged Goods & EIRA, which had its premiere in March 2007, at Kunstencentrum Vooruit in Ghent.

The “Prix du meilleur spectacle étranger" is an initiative of the Syndicat professionnel de la Critique de Théâtre, Musique et Danse. This organisation unites 140 journalists from France and abroad and was founded in 1877. Each year it honours artists working in theatre, dance and music, who have marked in the past season the landscape in an extraordinary way with their work.

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Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen’s new creation, "Next of Kin", for his own company premiered in Vilnius last May.

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PORTUGAL: dancing against all odds
 

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