An Immanuel College Year 11 student Anna McInerney, presents a theatrical dance production based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, featuring beautiful dance routines, minimalistic staging and classical and contemporary music accompaniment for the dance scenes.
It's a labour of love, and Anna has succeeded in bringing a dream to reality in a wonderful dance production that depicts the tragic love story through movement, music and mime.
Romeo and Juliet at the Odeon Theatre, Norwood, runs until March 31.
Dance of Love and Tragedy by Linh
Director, choreographer, producer and costume/hair/make up designer Anna McInerney has gathered a cast of 25 students from year levels 8-12 to perform in an unspoken theatrical dance production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
The year 11 student at Immanuel College has worked tirelessly with the hardworking cast and crew to bring a captivating and moving production to the Fringe Festival.
The first few acts started with shorter and simplistic dance routines with the chorus mostly as support for the lead characters.
Following the interval, the drama and the dance sequences intensify with longer, vigourous and complex movements integrated into the performance.
Rebecca Dickens (pictured with Damian Sturm as Romeo), a year 10 student at Immanuel College, dances the role of Juliet with gentle and graceful technique, effectively expressing the heart break and longing for Romeo in her movements. Rebecca's solo dance in Act Four is brilliant with well controlled leaps, stretches, landings and turns, to the tune of Pink's Nobody Knows. Her ballet Allegro and Pirouettes are a highlight.
Anthony Currie, year 10 at Immanuel College, is Friar Lawrence who helps bring Romeo and Juliet together but with tragic results. Anthony's experience in dance performance is evident as he provides the production's highlight in his solo dance sequence. Dancing to Anthony Callea's The Prayer, his agility, flexibility and foot work is highly impressive and his timing is superb.
The chorus of female dancers gave stirling support throughout and were an integral part of Act Four, encouraging the indecisive Juliet to drink the poison.
The music selection was appropriate with each song or music composition accentuating the mood and dance scenes. It was an eclectic mix including Tchaikovsky's Wedding March, Mozart's 7th Symphony, Prokofiev's Dance of the Knights, Sade's Kissing You and Bring Me To Life by Evanescence.
The constructive criticisms include the overuse of the fog machine, where the scenes, action and dancers' facial expressions are masked and the performers are slightly distracted by the overwhelming amount of fog.
Also the music stopped abruptly in mid word or mid note instead of faded gently as each scene begins and ends.
Anna McInerney's presentation of Romeo and Juliet was an entertaining and engaging theatrical dance production for anyone who appreciates the beauty of interpretive dance and mime.
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