Cinematic dance theatre – Tanztheater Erfurt
Concept & Choreography: Ester Ambrosino
Music: Michael Krause
Actor & Speaker: Stefan Wey
Photo: Lutz Edelhoff

Romeo and Juliet, two teenagers in love, are trapped in the conventions of feuding family clans in Verona. Against all odds, the young people secretly find each other, but escape the omnipresent hatred in the end only in desperate suicide – this is the story of the 400-year-old world bestseller … But nothing has lost Shakespeare’s material to this day in fascination and topicality.

Verona could be Erfurt or any other place – Ester Ambrosino (choreography) and Michael Krause (composer) bring the newly told story as a contemporary cinematic dance theater artistically into the present day … The scene of tragedy – a round stage: the world in which we live. Staged by twelve international dancers, the actor Stefan Wey accompanies the audience through the touching, musically reinterpreted love drama. Constantly confronted with elementary emotions such as anger, hatred, sadness, jealousy and conflict-filled reflections on violence or power, the actors in modern dance seek answers to timeless questions of lived love and of “coming closer” in our society.