Royal Ballet Goes To 02 Arena

Reuters reports that

Britain's Royal Ballet will hold four dance performances at a London arena famed for hosting top rock acts in a bid to bring ballet to a wider audience. 

The performances of "Romeo and Juliet" in June 2011 will mark the first time the Royal Ballet has danced at an arena venue in Britain. They can normally be found at the plush Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. 

London's 20,000 seat O2 arena usually hosts such popular music acts as Arcade Fire, Scissor Sisters and Lady Gaga.

Is this cool? Probably.

This is even cooler tho:

Comments

[deadtenors]

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thanks OC

[nick]

Definetely cool!

[Lindsay]

The Royal Ballet dancing "Romeo and Juliet" would be cool if they had it in the middle of a cornfield in Iowa. Sorry Iowa- no offense.

[Pronetoviolins]

I would go to this ballet production in this arena just to be able to say "I've been there." Nice!!