The Princess Grace Dance Academy Monaco
Choreography: Jean-Christophe Maillot
Rehearsal Director: Roland Vogel
Dance: Kadelle Smith, M. Dillon Brizic
Music: Alexander Skrjabin, Prelude Op.16 N° 4, Prelude Op.13 N°2, Prelude Op.9 N°1, Prelude Op.11 N°5 Pianist: Hervé Billaut
Created in 1994, Dov’e la luna is the first ballet of a trilogy through which Jean-Christophe Maillot pays tribute to his father, a painter who died too soon (followed by Vers un pays sage in 1995 and Back on track 61 in 2021). Dov’è la luna is the most crepuscular of the three ballets. He draws on mythologies where the moon is a place of passage between life and death, a place where a second birth is in preparation.
“I was on a friend’s boat. The current of memory mingled with that of oblivion and I did not know which of the two would carry me away. Was I, the orphan, going to be lost offshore or swim to other shores? But a Friend put her hand on my trouble. She illuminated it differently, with finesse and restraint. The moon then chased bad thoughts and a planet appeared to me.”