Romeo and Juliet

New York City choreographer Chiara Ajkun brings onstage yet another exciting ballet on love and nail-biting drama. Centered on the evolving feelings of the protagonists and facts that humanity tragically repeats, her Romeo and Juliet is a touching story of young love unaware of the surrounding drama. 

The love story of Juliet begins shining under the stars of the Italian town of Verona when Romeo falls for her. Disaster looms between the Montague and Capulet families when Tybalt’s assassination sets the tragic ending in motion. Directed and choreographed by Chiara Ajkun, performed by the Ajkun Ballet Company. In Ajkun’s ballet, Romeo and Juliet are surrounded by adult drama and embraced by love—the nurse's, the devoted friend Mercutio's, their own. Raw emotions, complex characters and the inward-looking account of the protagonists choreographed and displayed as a gallery of art by the extraordinary cast.

The show is performed for the Face To Face Series and realized in an intimate studio space where the audience sits feet away from the dancers and meets the cast at the end of the show.