#Dance

Wednesday 11 December 2024, at 7.30 pm, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
2024/2025 Season - Monaco Dance Forum. The spotlight comes on and we find ourselves pitched into the mind of a man, as the story of his life flashes before him, interwoven with those of other people, past and future. Thus begins the labyrinthine two-part journey of Diptych, through the passageways of a ship. Time, memory, and premonition whirl around illusions, utopias, and the lost loves of a couple and blinded characters, actors in their own story. At every stage of their quest, they are thrown off course by uncontrollable forces of nature.

Thursday 12 December 2024, at 7.30 pm, Théâtre des Variétés
2024/2025 Season - Monaco Dance Forum. With flamenco, as with every art form, historians, specialists, and critics gradually identified particular periods. The period they called "La Edad de Oro", the golden age of flamenco, ran from the late 19th century to the 1930s. It was a time when the emphasis was very much on singing and dancing, with the guitar becoming popular much later. According to this tradition, and aside from some special exceptions, no contemporary singer or dancer could hope to match the quality, purity, and creativity of those who bore flamenco to its very pinnacle, and forged the legend of the golden age.

Friday 13 December 2024, at 7.30 pm, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
2024/2025 Season - Monaco Dance Forum. The sheer energy and density of Last Work by legendary choreographer Ohad Naharin are infused with an ephemeral aura. A sensation of clarity and reflection, like the calm at the eye of a hurricane. Unflappable, a person in the background runs across a set for the whole 70 minute duration of the piece. Seemingly fleeing or dreaming of flight, the body remains locked on the spot. Perhaps symbolising the desire for progress?

Saturday 14 December at 7.30 pm and Sunday 15 December 2024 at 3 pm, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
2024/2025 Season - The Company. To a techno rhythm like a countdown, dancers transform into fauns in ballet shoes, performing a dance so extreme and visceral that it ultimately intimidates. Sharon Eyal's choreography is reputed for its physicality and intensity.

Sunday 15 December 2024, at 11 am, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
2024/2025 Season - Monaco Dance Forum. In collaboration with the Audiovisual Institute of Monaco. To prevent composer Pierre Borov from offering his proletarian talents to the makers of an American capitalist movie, commissars Bibikov, Ivanov and Brankov are dispatched to Paris to bring the musician home. Willingly or otherwise.

Monday 16 December 2024, at 7.30 pm, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
2024/2025 Season - Monaco Dance Forum. In 2015, director Sue Buckmaster from Thatre-Rites adapted Akram Khan's critically acclaimed, Olivier Award-winning solo Desh. The heartwarming story follows a young man trying to find his place in the world. Chotto Desh, which means signifie "little homeland", draws on the unique quality of Akram Khan's intercultural storytelling, weaving a captivating tale of a boy's dreams and memories, from Britain to Bangladesh.

Tuesday 17 December 2024, at 7.30 pm, Théâtre des Variétés
2024/2025 Season - Monaco Dance Forum. First popularised in the 1920s and 30s, dance marathons saw couples attempt to keep dancing continuously for as long as they could (simply swaying or stepping were allowed), in the hope of winning a prize of around one hundred dollars. The crash of 1929 brought such grinding poverty that participants were prepared to go to any lengths for a few bucks, turning normally joyous dance marathons into horror balls.

Wednesday 18 December 2024, at 7.30 pm, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
2024/2025 Season - Monaco Dance Forum. For over three decades, Oslo Danse Ensemble was Norway's most popular dance company. Paradoxically, they never performed outside their home country. When the company closed in 2018, it begged the question: how could Norway expect the world to understand its national culture if it remained such a closely guarded secret? Jo Strømgren Kompani has taken on the challenge of remedying that situation, bringing together a selection of creations by Jo Strømgren for this company in a triple-header "Made in Oslo".

Sunday 29 December at 3 pm, and Monday 30 and Tuesday 31 December 2024 at 7.30 pm, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
2024/2025 Season - The Company. With The Taming of the Shrew, Jean-Christophe Maillot finds himself in unfamiliar territory - bringing to Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo a piece originally created for other dancers. This version of the Shrew, devised in 2014 and inspired by his meeting with the Bolshoi Ballet, was his first ever creation for another copmany since arriving in Monaco.

From Thursday 2 to Saturday 4 January 2025, at 7.30 pm, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
2024/2025 Season - The Company. With The Taming of the Shrew, Jean-Christophe Maillot finds himself in unfamiliar territory - bringing to Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo a piece originally created for other dancers. This version of the Shrew, devised in 2014 and inspired by his meeting with the Bolshoi Ballet, was his first ever creation for another copmany since arriving in Monaco.

From Wednesday 23 to Saturday 26 April at 7.30 pm,and Sunday 27 April 2025 at 3 pm, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
2024/2025 Season - The Company. Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo will mark the arrival of spring with a programme exploring one of the repertoire's most important chapters, infused with a burst of creativity. The evening will open with George Balanchine's "The Four Temperaments", one of his first experimental works, blending classical motifs with a spartan, angular style.

Friday 20 and Saturday 21 June 2025, at 7.30 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
2024/2025 Season - Princess Grace Academy. The Gala of the Princess Grace Academy is a special moment when the pupils of the illustrious dance school, closely associated with Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, give the public a privileged glimpse of their elite training, embracing a variety of styles from the classic to the contemporary. The event is an important milestone for the young dancers and their instructors.

From Thursday 17 to Sunday 20 July 2025, at 7.30 pm, Opéra Garnier Monte-Carlo
2024/2025 Season - The Company. To bring down the curtain on a fabulous season, Jean-Christophe Maillot has invited Lukáš Timulak and the Kor’sia company to devise two new creations for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. It will be a welcome return to Monaco for the up and coming choreographers, who are bringing a bracing breath of fresh air into the contemporary dance scene and are increasingly in demand by dance companies.