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VIDEO – The Ballets de Monte-Carlo which will celebrate next year their 40th anniversary have paid tribute to Ukraine with a work by Alexei Ratmansky an evening which also included the resumption of Four temperaments de Balanochine and a creation by Marco Goecke.
To illuminate this new evening of the Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Jean-Christophe Maillot, the director, bet on the resumption of Four temperaments From Balanochine, a ballet many times presented around the world, with various fortunes it must be said, as its execution requires phenomenal technicality on the part of all dancers. Monte-carlo ballet is doing high, proving its technical level once again and its ability to interpret more classic works.
However, it is not imagined that the troop lacks audacity. This same evening, we applauded the creation of Marco Goecke ordered for the occasion. The German choreographer delivered a work articulated on music by Schoenberg. If its gestures is very sophisticated, the dramaturgy of this Transfigured night is very effective, served by a tremendously used half -light, and particularly conducive to human and romantic interactions.
But the memory that we will keep above all from this evening is the resumption of Wartime Elegy From Alexei Ratmansky, an incredible tribute to Ukraine. We hear the powerful echo of the ballet created in 1932 in Paris, The green table From Kurt Jooss who, faced with the rise of Hitler, projected the specter of war on the stage. Alexei Ratmansky repeated The art of fugue In Bolchoi on February 24, 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine. He immediately canceled his creation and left Russian territory. A few weeks later, he rose, with the dancers of the kyiv National Opera (Kyiv) this opus in four movements. Both contemporary and folk. It is very beautiful and great dance that succeeds in reconciling deep emotion and technical prowess.
