The Ballets de Monte-Carlo will be brightening this winter season with a series of spectacular shows and performances that will include the return of the Monaco Dance Forum alongside a Sharon Eyal/Jean-Christophe Maillot collaboration and a captivating rendition of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’.
It all starts with the Monaco Dance Forum on 11th December, the first of eight days and nights of a programme that promises to push boundaries and present audiences with an intriguing and engaging blend of the unexpected and the traditional.
Highlights include Belgium’s Peeping Tom presentation of ‘Diptych’ on the inaugural soirée and Israel Galván’s flamboyant flamenco journey in ‘La Edad de Oro’ on 12th December. The following evening, the iconic Ohad Naharin’s ‘Last Work’ will fill the stage at the Salle Prince Pierre, while a special screening of the 1956 classic film ‘Silk Stockings’ starring Fred Astaire will mix things up on 18th December.
The Ballets de Monte-Carlo troupe will be away for much of the month – with performances planned at overseas venues in Guanajuato, Havana and Shanghai – but two special collaborative shows featuring the works of renowned choreographer Sharon Eyal and Jean-Christophe Maillot, the director of the Ballets de Monte-Carlo, will be held on 14th and 15th December.
From 29th December through 4th January, La Compagnie will return to Monaco for a Bolshoi-Monaco co-produced adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, which was first showcased in 2014. The piece has earned the troupe three coveted Golden Masks, Russia’s national theatre awards.
“The less common ground you find, the more satisfied I would be with the programme we are unveiling for you, because I have always set myself the goal of offering the public the greatest diversity of choreographic styles,” says Maillot. “One thing still connects these artists who are about to dance before you: the excellence of their work and the originality of their approach. All are marked by a creativity that defines them, allowing the dance world to identify them for their singularity.”
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