Alternate Title Generation BAM Performance: Cinderella (Cendrillon)
Country of Origin Monaco
Description A Generation BAM and kaBAM performance for Elementary through High School. Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, founded in 1985 by H.R.H. the Princess of Hanover in memory of her mother, Princess Grace, is the sole dance company established in the Principality since Diaghilev's famed Ballets Russes first performed there in 1911. The troupe wears its creative legacy well, staging provocative revivals of seminal ballets as well as commissioning works by an international roster of contemporary masters (William Forsythe, Lucinda Childs, Jiri Kylian, Twyla Tharp) alongside Artistic Director Jean-Christophe Maillot's latest creations. In re-imagining Cinderella, Maillot exhibits his customary flair for quicksilver attenuated movement. He eschews the tale's customary classical trappings-cartoon-like lords and ladies, stepsisters whose cruelty verges on caricature-focusing instead on the grandeur of Prokofiev's score, and on the pivotal relationship between Cinderella and her mother, a.k.a. her fairy godmother.
Here, on a stage defined by luminous panels that recall the tantalizing pages of a book, Cinderella's mother comes to riveting life as a glamorous and authoritative spirit. And, as envisioned by Maillot, the beloved heroine, often portrayed as a maddeningly passive victim of circumstance, gets a liberating psychological makeover. This is a Cinderella with edge, who triumphs over her surroundings using her newfound belief in the power of love.
Identifier 2003s.01300
