MINIATURES

In coproduction with Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo
With the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain
Direction: Bruno Mantovani

Take seven musical works written by contemporary composers. The music reflects seven worlds, seven individual and different imaginations; they were not written for dance. Offer them, impose them on a choreographer with no other constraints than to work with them... Those are the rules of the game! Seven miniature ballets emerge as so many pieces of a puzzle assembled in a choreographic tableau to reveal other lives, other destinies. This is how the 2004 Miniatures were born, created by Jean-Christophe Maillot as part of the Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo.

Twenty-two years later, new Miniatures are born and are an opportunity for the choreographer to invite to his side "friends of the company", four former dancers of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, who moved to the other side of the curtain, in their turn setting their understanding into movement.

MINIATURES (creations)
Miniature 1: Choreography: Francesco Nappa | Music: Violeta Cruz, Huit carrés rouges, creation 2025. Miniature 2: Choreography: Jeroen Verbruggen | Music: Aurélien Dumont, Steps for Beasts that Never Were, creation 2025. Miniature 3: Choreography: Julien Guérin | Music: Martin Matalon, Caravansérail 2, creation 2025. Miniature 4: Choreography: Mimoza Koike | Music: Misato Mochizuki, creation 2025. Miniature 5: Choreography: Jean-Christophe Maillot | Music: Bruno Mantovani, L’ivresse for string quartet, 2004. Miniature 6: Choreography: Jean-Christophe Maillot | Music: Ramon Lazkano, Lur-Itzalak for violin and cello, 2004.