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| | Monte Carlo Ballet: Interview with company director, choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot |
 | | The difference unfortunately doesn't stop there, for its current director, the French choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot is not surrounded by the greatest painters, composers and dancers of the day; Balanchine, Massine, Ravel, Stravinsky, Debussy, Picasso, Bakst, Matisse, Pavlova and Nijinsky gathered there because Diaghilev had created the first professional dance company in the world. |
 | | Maillot is there at the request of S.A.R. the Princess of Hanover, the company's President, who wished to fulfil her mother's dream of a dance company once again becoming an essential part of the cultural life of Monaco. |
 | | In all the rest, I was finding my way", Maillot told me. "I'm interested in the behaviour of people, and their reactions to certain situations; I want to transmit an emotion to the public, and propose other solutions to the classics which no longer correspond to what the audience wants". |
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