MA BAYADÈRE

A large-scale ballet, Ma Bayadère marks Jean-Christophe Maillot's return to narrative that he loves so much, "made of emotions that reflect us with moves which bring us together". Putting an academic vocabulary in harmony with a narrative that makes sense today... the credo of the Choreographer-Director of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo has not changed over the years. More than ever in love with dance on points, aiming for an excellence beyond what is reasonable, Jean-Christophe takes that on to offer us his reinterpretation of La Bayadère, a monument of the classical Repertoire with which he never ceases his dialogue. Abandoning the orientalist vision of the ballet of Marius Petipa (1877) and Nureyev (1992), Jean-Christophe Maillot retains its emotional wellspring to allow us to see human relations at their most visceral and irrational. Where La Bayadère was set in a Hindu Temple with its sacred dancers, this new creation is anchored in the daily life of a dance company for whom the dance studio will become the theatre of a darkly humorous and fierce human comedy. Ma Bayadère already promises to be one of the choreographer's most personal ballets.

MA BAYADÈRE - JEAN-CHRISTOPHE MAILLOT 
Choreography: Jean-Christophe Maillot | Music: Léon Minkus | Sets and costumes: Jérôme Kaplan, assisted by Paul Kaplan | Lighting: Jean-Christophe Maillot and Samuel Thery | Dramaturgy: Jean-Christophe Maillot and Geoffroy Staquet | Premiere : 27 December 2025, Grimaldi Forum Monaco.

With The Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by: Garrett Keast