Jean-Christophe Maillot (born 1960) is a Monaco-based, French-born dancer and choreographer. He has been the Choreographer-Director of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo since 1993. [1]
Jean-Christophe Maillot (born 1960) is a Monaco-based, French-born dancer and choreographer. He has been the Choreographer-Director of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo since 1993. [1]
Maillot was born in Tours. He studied at the dance conservatory in Tours before enrolling at the École supérieure de danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower, where Rosella Hightower was his primary teacher. [2]
Maillot was invited by John Neumeier to join the Hamburg Ballet in 1978, where he became a soloist and stayed until 1983, when an accident ended his career as a dancer. [3]
In 1983, he became the choreographer and director of the Ballet du Grand Théâtre in Tours. Since 1993, on the appointment of Caroline, Princess of Hanover, he has been the artistic director of Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. [1]
He helped Princess Caroline design the bridesmaids costumes at the wedding of her brother.[ citation needed ]
In 2000, 2012 and 2023 was a head of a jury at Prix de Lausanne ballet competitions.
Works created for Les Ballets des Monte-Carlo: [4] Bêtes Noires; Home, Sweet Home; Dov’è la Luna; Vers un Pays Sage; Roméo et Juliette; Recto Verso; L’Île; Cendrillon; Entrelacs; Oeil pour oeil; La Belle; D’une rive à l’autre; Miniatures; Le Songe; Altro Canto; Casse-Noisette Circus (2000). For the Bolshoi Theater, he created The Taming of The Shrew.
He and his wife, Valentine, have three children, born between 1986-1992. [5] His daughter, Juliette Dol, is a French actress. [6]
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