Jan 2 2012

Rehearsal for SDB's Romeo et Juliet. Photographer: Gregory Olive. Dancers: Meghan Lotz, Elana Lewis, Arielle Meads, Vinnie Prisbrey, Regan Nuchereno. The ballet was created as a very intimate chamber piece. As such, it utilizes a small corps of Renaissance figures to comment on the action and move us from scene to scene.

Rehearsal for SDB's Romeo et Juliet. Photographer: Gregory Olive. Dancer: Trystan Loucado. because I wanted to focus on the Romeo and Juliet relationship, I intentionally did away with a lot of the testosterone laden sword play. To that end, the part of Benvolio (which is actually my favorite role in the play) was unnecessary. So now, Romeo is just accompanied by his BFF Mercutio.

If you visited early yesterday, I added some info to yesterdays pics in the evening, so double check to make sure you are on board.

The company is off this week, so I am pretty much just working on getting The Toughest Girl Alive up at Moxie Theater (www.moxietheater.com). We open on Thursday and it only runs for 2 weeks. So come down and see it!