The Role Every Ballerina Wants

“When Kenneth MacMillan choreographed Romeo and Juliet for the Royal Ballet in 1965, he created the most fiercely coveted ballerina role of them all. The canon isn’t short of tragic heroines – Giselle, Odette in Swan Lake, Tatiana in Onegin – but it’s the beautiful, doomed Juliet every ballerina dreams of dancing.”