Roméo et Juliette

Here, Shakespeare's greatest love story is seen in a new light: rather than following the struggle between the Capulets and the Montagues step by step to its tragic conclusion, the choreographer revisits the play through the tormented and distraught figure of Frère Laurent, a powerless witness and unwitting actor in 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 adolescents: impulsive, fragile, carried away by the force of their feelings. They discover love like a shock. The Capulets and Montagues are young, they look alike and provoke each other with mischief, never imagining that the game could tip over into tragedy. In Jean-Christophe Maillot's reinterpretation, the rivalry between the two clans is no longer seen as a social or identity conflict, but as the starting point for a fortuitous tragedy that mows down a youth in the throes of construction. With dancers from Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo