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Never Scene Episode 4 : "Be free be Maillot"
Beauty, or how to love yourself despite your wounds? Olga Smirnova and Semyon Chudin, Stars of the Bolshoi, follow a lesson in love guided by Bernice Coppieters and Jean-Christophe Maillot. With Semyon Chudin: Star of the Bolshoi Theater Ballet, guest of the Ballets de Monte-Carlo in the role of Prince, Bernice Coppieters: Principal Ballet Master, Jean-Christophe Maillot: Choreographer-Director, Chris Roelandt: Former Principal Ballet Dancer de Monte-Carlo And Olga Smirnova: Star of the Bolshoi Theater Ballet, guest of the Monte-Carlo Ballets in the title role of “La Belle”
Jean-Christophe Maillot’s production, La Belle, obtained the Nijinsky award for the best choreographic production 2001 during the second edition of the Monaco Dance Forum in December 2002, and the Danza & Danza Prize for the Best show 2002, awarded by the Italian critics.
« In order to retain the expurgated Walt Disney version of The Sleeping Beauty (itself greatly influenced by Petipa’s ballet), the forcefully carnal character of Perrault’s tale has been largely eradicated. The tale of this young girl is in fact one of the flesh, and the author makes no mystery of it. One need only read the moral of the story to convince oneself. But the collective cultural unconscious has entirely eclipsed this aspect, as it has eclipsed everything about the story that raises the complexities and neuroses of the tale’s family relationships.
It is through these two prisms, original to the genesis of the story, that one should view Jean- Christophe Maillot’s rereading of Tchaikovsky’s score and of the ballet ».
Source : Philippe Verrièle
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