{"id":9811,"date":"2018-03-11T12:51:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T19:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/?p=9811"},"modified":"2018-03-22T21:59:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T04:59:54","slug":"music-center-romeo-and-juliet-joffrey-ballet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westsidemommy.com\/site\/music-center-romeo-and-juliet-joffrey-ballet\/","title":{"rendered":"Romeo & Juliet performance by The Joffrey Ballet at The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion March 9-17"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Review By Jonna Coleman<\/h2>\n

Last Friday, March 9th, I attended the opening night performance of Romeo & Juliet<\/em> performed by the Joffrey Ballet at The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Downtown Los Angeles<\/strong><\/a>. It was such a beautiful and special night introducing my (nearly 12 year old) daughter to the ballet. It seemed like one of those things you must do (at least once) in order to be a “good cultured mom”…well, perhaps in my eyes only?<\/p>\n

The truth is, I’m not one to do this sort of\u00a0thing on a regular basis, so I was floored by the wonderful experience! We laughed,\u00a0cried and felt so many emotions. It was a truly fabulous\u00a0rendition of a well-known\u00a0classic story, and the perfect performance to introduce my daughter to ballet. The recommended minimum audience age for the show is 12 years old, which I completely agree with, due to certain aspects of the story.<\/p>\n

It was difficult for me to fathom my pop-culture-loving daughter to follow a stage show with no words, but it was paced and portrayed so perfectly, no explanation was necessary.\u00a0Being the mom that I am, I still tried to explain things: “they’re not dancing, they’re fighting,” and “he’s the father of Romeo.” After every interruption, she told me, “yeah ma, I know…”<\/p>\n

Without ruining any details, the Joffrey Ballet’s rendition and choices of historical story changes were brilliant. The dancing and music were incredible. The two stars, Christine Rocas (Juliet) and Rory Hohenstein (Romeo) danced with such deep feeling, it was impossible not to empathize. Yoshitisa Arai (Close friend of Romeo) stole parts of the show with his ability of clever ballet comedy.<\/p>\n

The production is flawless and the evening was special. 5 out of 5!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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