Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo set the Théâtre de la Ville alight with Maillot and Eyal

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo make a stopover in Paris for an exceptional week at the Théâtre de la Ville - Sarah Bernhardt . The program includes two major works: Vers un Pays Sage by Jean-Christophe Maillot, the choreographer's signature piece created thirty years ago, and Autodance by Sharon Eyal, a hypnotic, feverish piece making its debut in the company's repertoire. Two contrasting universes, one solar and vibrant, the other animal and hallucinatory, united in the same celebration of movement.

Created to the incandescent music of John Adams, Vers un Pays Sage is a whirlwind of energy where abstraction and vitality merge in a deluge of rhythms and colors. With this work, which has become a signature of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Jean-Christophe Maillot offers a hymn to pure dance, as dazzling as ever three decades after its creation.
As a counterpoint, Sharon Eyal's Autodance shifts into another dimension: a hypnotic voyage where precision of movement is matched by a heady techno soundtrack. With gestures of rare intensity, the dancers explore a visceral physicality, where unison becomes a collective trance on the edge between human and animal.

This program will appeal equally to fans of contemporary ballet and those in search of powerful sensory experiences. Dance enthusiasts will find Jean-Christophe Maillot 's powerful, luminous signature, while fans of hypnotic, immersive choreography will be fascinated by Sharon Eyal 's electrifying universe. A rare opportunity to see in Paris this exceptional company, too rarely programmed in the capital.

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Between lyricism and tension, power and release, this program brings together two radical visions of contemporary dance. Vers un Pays Sage and Autodance offer an evening where the body is brought to incandescence, in a not-to-be-missed show for lovers of dance and thrills.

This article is based on information available online, we have not yet seen the show mentioned.