Romeo and Juliet
A piece of the repertoire, the emblematic ballet signed Jean-Christophe Maillot travels the world and seduces by his humanism and virtuosity.
The greatest love story of Shakespeare’s repertoire appears here in a new day: rather than following the struggle between the Capulet and the Montaigu until its tragic denouncement, the choreographer revisits the play through the tormented and unseen figure of Brother Laurent, a helpless witness and involuntary actor of the drama. Through his memories, the ballet becomes a psychological flashback, a poignant introspection on love, youth, innocence and destiny.
Romeo and Juliet are true teenagers: impulsive, fragile, driven by the strength of their feelings. They discover love as we receive a shock. The Capulet and the Montaigu are young, they look like themselves, provoke themselves with malice, without ever imagined that the game can shift in tragedy. Through the rereading of Jean-Christophe Maillot, the rivalry of the two clans is no longer perceived as a social or identity conflict but as the starting point of a fortuitous drama, came to falsify a youth in the midst of construction.
Author: William Shakespeare
With: the dancers of the Ballets of Monte-Carlo
Duration: 2h10 [including withdrawal]
Rate: From 5 to 35 €
Reservation information : Any public from 8 years old
The greatest love story of Shakespeare’s repertoire appears here in a new day: rather than following the struggle between the Capulet and the Montaigu until its tragic denouncement, the choreographer revisits the play through the tormented and unseen figure of Brother Laurent, a helpless witness and involuntary actor of the drama. Through his memories, the ballet becomes a psychological flashback, a poignant introspection on love, youth, innocence and destiny.
Romeo and Juliet are true teenagers: impulsive, fragile, driven by the strength of their feelings. They discover love as we receive a shock. The Capulet and the Montaigu are young, they look like themselves, provoke themselves with malice, without ever imagined that the game can shift in tragedy. Through the rereading of Jean-Christophe Maillot, the rivalry of the two clans is no longer perceived as a social or identity conflict but as the starting point of a fortuitous drama, came to falsify a youth in the midst of construction.
Author: William Shakespeare
With: the dancers of the Ballets of Monte-Carlo
Duration: 2h10 [including withdrawal]
Rate: From 5 to 35 €
Reservation information : Any public from 8 years old