Dance of the Knights

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Dance of the Knights is a score composed by Sergei Prokofiev. It is from Act I, Scene 2 of the ballet Romeo and Juliet. The piece is properly called "Montagues and Capulets" from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2.

A dark and atmospheric piece, it has become a de facto signature tune for the Soviet era, and is used as the soundtrack for numerous dramas, documentaries and adverts that have Soviet subject matter.

It was the theme tune for the second series of the UK television game show The Apprentice, and was the competition music for the Canadian television mockumentary Kenny vs. Spenny.

The song has also been used as the theme score for the Sunderland Football Club who play at the Stadium of Light. Since the stadium opened in 1997, Dance of the Knights is played, in full, before the teams run out onto the pitch before the game, and again before the second half. The use of the piece in this context saw interest in Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet rise sharply in the North-East of England toward the end of the 1990's.

Furthermore, this composition is used as title music for the movie Caligula.