Cherkaoui - Verbruggen

In 2002, when he began his career as a choreographer, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui won a trophy for the "best young choreographer" during the ceremony of the Nijinsky awards organized by the Monaco Dance Forum. This is one of the earliest recognitions for the young Belgian artist. Since then, it has experienced a meteoric rise, punctuated by several creations for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. Each one has profoundly enjoyed the Company and it is always with great pleasure that the dancers and the choreographer are working together...The talented young choreographer Jeroen Verbruggen begins the same path. He will join his friends of the Ballet de Monte-Carlo, with whom he danced for more than 10 years to offer them his eccentric and exciting universe.

MEMENTO MORI (creation) - SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI
Memento Mori... Remember that you must die. This centuries-old Latin expression is the starting point for the new performance by choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. How is life influenced by the awareness of death? With this question of what one leaves behind oneself as legacy, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui presents the final piece in the trilogy that he created for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo after In Memoria and Mea Culpa.

MASSÂCRE (creation) - JEROEN VERBRUGGEN
"Choreographers continue to be enthralled by Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring..." His own fascination for its music led Jeroen Verbruggen taking on this epic opus himself. Thanks to a resolutely jazzy musical interpretation, the young choreographer put an athletic register and adressed us the following question : At what point does the bitterness of this semi-loving ritual become a massacre?

 

MEMENTO MORI  - SIDI LARBI CHERKAOUI (creation)
World creation by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
Piece for 10 male dancers and 11 female dancers
Choreography: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Music: Woodkid
Scenography: Amine Amharech
Costumes: Jan-Jan Van Essche
Lighting: Fabiana Piccioli
Duration: 30 mn
Premiere held on Wednesday 19th July 2017, Salle Garnier de l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo
Coproduction: Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo and Ballet royal de Flandre

MASSÂCRE - JEROEN VERBRUGGEN (creation)
Piece for 8 male dancers and 7 female dancers
Choreography: Jeroen Verbruggen
Scenography: Jeroen Verbruggen
Costumes: Charlie Le Mindu
Lighting: Fabiana Piccioli
Musics: The Rite of Spring, «Evocation of the Ancestors / Ritual Action of the Ancestors», The Bad Plus (2014)
Arrangement: Benjamin Magnin
Duration : 50 mn
Premiere held on Wednesday 19th July 2017, Salle Garnier de l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Pre-Talks !

20 July at 18h45 with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Jeroen Verbruggen
21 and 22 July at 18h45 with Jeroen Verbruggen
Pre-talks by Laura Capelle, Financial Times (critical, dance).