A Romeo and Juliet That Swells the Ranks

Pointe, August, 2008 by Brown, Steven

A Romeo and Juliet That Swells the Ranks

By Steven Brown

Steven Brown writes about dance for The Charlotte Observer

Any story ballet is a stretch for North Ciirolina Dance Theatre, which presented Artistic Director Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux's Romeo and Juliet, May 15 17, at the Belk Theater in Charlotte, NC. The dancers ability isn't the problem; the company's size is.

NCDT has 18 professional dancers and six trainees. That isn't enough for all the characters who populate a full-evening work. To do Romeo and Juliet, the company had to flesh itself out with apprentices, students, ex-dancers from its staff and two dancers hired from outside. Injured company member Nicholle Rochelle played Juliet's mother. Even Executive Director Douglas Singleton, a non-dancer,...

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