Never Scene Episode 5 : "Bubble Dream"

In the beginning was a bubble. Then a woman capable of coming out of it to invent her life. Jean-Christophe Maillot rediscovers “La Belle”, with Olga Smirnova, Star of the Bolshoi, invited for the first time in the title role. With Jean-Christophe Maillot: Choreographer-Director of the Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Olga Smirnova: Star of the Ballet of the Bolshoi Theater, guest of the Ballets de Monte-Carlo, in the title role of “La Belle” And the dancers of the Monte-Carlo Ballet Company

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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