Jean-Christophe Maillot‘s The Taming of the Shrew reimagines Shakespeare’s famous comedy as a witty, energetic, and deeply human ballet about the unpredictable nature of love. Rather than presenting the story as a simple tale of a man taming a rebellious woman, Maillot…
Oeil pour œil (“Eye for an Eye”) is a powerful contemporary ballet by acclaimed French choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot, Artistic Director of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. Inspired by themes of justice, revenge, compassion, and the fragile balance between violence and reconciliation, the…
Audiences often associate Swan Lake with its Act II, a stalwart of the classical repertoire so powerfully identifiable by the whiteness of its choreography accompanied by Tchaikovsky’s legendary score. Act II of Swan Lake can be considered as one of…
While love is breaking into the lives of two young people, an artificial being will challenge what they believed they knew about it… Revisiting this classic of the Romantic repertoire, Jean-Christophe Maillot gives us, with an original musical score, a…
The backdrop to Choré is the emergence of musical theatre in the United States. Shown by the choreographer as less sparkling than in our imagination, here, this period is used as the pretext to question the evolution of dance. What…
The Monte Carlo Ballets presents a two-part program marked by an unprecedented juxtaposition of human tragedy, dance, and theater. White Darkness Nacho Duato composed the one-act ballet, White Darkness, as a requiem for the untimely loss of a sister. The…
In this ballet built on fragility and impossible caresses, Jean-Christophe Maillot seeks strategically to distance the original text by Longus and Ravel’s arguments in order to concentrate essentially on ways in which the body behaves and the affective and emotional…
In his tribute to the Principality of Monaco, Jean-Christophe Maillot delved into some of the greatest moments of the Ballets Russes which resulted in the creation of Noces. The mission of Noces is to create the atmosphere of immediacy. Characterized…
Halfway between the statuary of cathedrals and the twilight zone of a Georges de La Tour, Altro Canto is a work which uplifts the androgynous bodies following the dramatic accents of the Monteverdi Magnificat. Though Jean-Christophe Maillot does not necessarily…
