Royal Moscow Ballet performance a real treat
Stunning dances and sublime music
The Royal Moscow Ballet dazzled local audiences with breathtaking movements during their performance at the Linder Auditorium in Johannesburg.
The group of talented ballerinas presented two performances on Saturday as part of their world tour.
The company charmed local ballet enthusiasts with Romeo and Juliet featuring a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, based on Shakespeare’s tragic tale of star-crossed young lovers.
They also performed Carmina Burana, a work by Carl Heinrich Maria Orff which is based on 24 poems.
The company is touring South Africa and Botswana in celebration of great Russian composers Sergei Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Aleksander Borodin.
Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s most popular works, valued for its romantic intensity. The two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, meet at a ball and fall passionately in love despite their families’ long-standing feud. The story is told through a sequence of complicated, interwoven steps as they make their way into an imaginary ballroom.
The performance was amazing despite the physically demanding gliding steps, hops, turns and leaps. The dancers exuded a joyful buoyancy as they went through a combination of movements with ballerinas in their beautiful costumes.
The story is compressed in the first scene and the second scene is more free-style movements accompanied by stunning music that takes you into the cinematic realm.
The second part was dedicated to Carmina Burana, and boy, did the ballerinas mesmerise with their choreography. The music left us enthralled.
The tour ends on Tuesday at Sand du Plessis Theatre, Bloemfontein.