“Love & Desire,” by Hamish Bowles, was originally published in the April 2020 issue of Vogue.

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American ballet theatre's principal dancer Misty Copeland, 37, and soloist Calvin Royal III, 31, will make history this spring when they become the company's first African American partners to perform the title roles in Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet. The new production, set to music composed by Sergei Prokofiev under challenging conditions in Soviet Russia in the 1930s (and first performed there at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1940), was initially choreographed by Mac­Millan at London's Royal Opera House in 1965, with lavish costume and set designs by Nicholas Georgiadis. The legendary dancers Rudol

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