The Sarasota Ballet will perform Sir Frederick Ashton's Romeo and Juliet for Program Six, accompanied by the Sarasota Orchestra, at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall from March 28 to 29, 2025.

Program Six sees the long-awaited Company premiere of Sir Frederick Ashton’s full-length story ballet Romeo and Juliet, bringing the grandeur and passion of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy to the Sarasota stage. Choreographed in 1955 to Sergei Prokofiev’s score, the ballet brought great success to the Royal Danish Ballet. Unlike many other productions, Ashton decided to truly focus on the “intimate tragedy of two young people caught in an all-consuming passion” (David Vaughan, Frederick Ashton and his Ballets, 1977). Infused with Ashton’s musicality and penchant for heart-fluttering pas de deux, Romeo and Juliet clearly demonstrates Ashton’s choreographic genius and his ability to portray the nature of humanity through dance.

For tickets contact The Sarasota Ballet Box Office at 941.359.0099 or visit SarasotaBallet.org.

Production Courtesy by Peter Schaufuss.

Mattison's Bayside at the Van Wezel

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Van Wezel dining in the Grand Foyer before the show!

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