Mayerling: A Dark Story With Beautiful Dancing Returns to Houston Ballet

A difficult role to dance with a dark story to tell — that's how Houston Ballet Principal dancer Skylar Campbell sums up the role of Crown Prince Rudolf inIn 2017, Houston Ballet performed Sir Kenneth MacMillan's work at the Hobby Center because of flooding damage after Hurricane Harvey. Now the full-length, three hour ballet will move to its home at the Wortham.

Known to carry around a revolver, he was addicted to morphine, had syphilis and was obsessed with death. He meets the teenager Mary Vetsera who is fascinated with him and as it turns out, more than willing to enter into a death pact with the heir to the throne. Asked what was the most challenging aspect of dancing in the ballet, Campbell said,"Probably the pas de deux work that Prince Rudolf has to do with at least six different female characters. All these individuals play an important role in his life and they influence him in different ways. And takes you on the journey, a hero's downfall.

"In the beginning of his life he was this progressive idealist, intellectual man who was born into a royal family where he felt suffocated by the confines of the duty to uphold his family." Although he is American, Campbell spent 13 years at the National Ballet of Canada with his wife Jackie Oakley who's also a member of of the corps at Houston Ballet."We just wanted to come back to America and experience dancing in an American company."

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