Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo presents Coppél-i.A., the new creation by Jean-Christophe Maillot marking his return to grand-scale narrative ballet. Thursday 2, Friday 3, Saturday 4 January, at 8 pm and Sunday 5 January, at 4 pm, Salle des Princes of the Grimaldi Forum Monaco
Choreographer-Director Jean-Christophe Maillot has taken the famous Romantic play exploring the world of machines, to reflect on the development of artificial intelligence in our modern society.
Coppél-i.A. by Jean-Christophe Maillot takes us on a journey into a near future where two young lovers, Frantz and Swanhilda, discover the pleasures of the flesh, in a society obsessed with progress, safety and hygiene. As their erotic enlightenment begins, an artificial being comes into their lives, sowing doubt and causing them to question everything they believed they knew about love. Is our ideal partner the flesh and blood being we have always know, or the abstract being that questions our very humanity?
"COPPÉL-i.A." - chor. MAILLOT
Choreography: Jean-Christophe Maillot
Original music: Bertrand Maillot based on Léo Delibes
Scenography, Costumes: Aimée Moreni
Lighting: Jean-Christophe Maillot and Samuel Thery
Dramaturgy: Jean-Christophe Maillot and Geoffroy Staquet
Practical information:
2 January 8 pm
3 January 8 pm
4 January 8 pm
5 January 4 pm