Rose was originally created in 2001 for the Royal Swedish Ballet. The stage from the floor to the flies, the dancers’ bodies and the set, Rose envelopes us in pink. Rose - variation is a piece which deconstructs the classical ballet vocabulary, examining and resetting each figure, each classical step in new variations.

Several well-known movements are re worked from the inside out, fully exploiting their creative and imaginary potential, movements such as a rond de jambe, a grand jeté, a battement, a turn en dehors: these codified figures evoke a corporal fiction which must be entirely reconfigured. Working with the specificity of a corps de ballet, each dancer becomes a soloist who creates their part with the choreographer.

The piece is presented as a series of solos – bravura turns for the dancers - which are then picked up and performed in unison by the group. The beginning of the piece is also its ending since it begins with a series of downstage bows, a specific set of jumps punctuates the piece as if presenting itself before letting itself be seen.

The construction of the work is supported by the music, played live on a pink piano and played by a pianist dressed also in pink, who is in direct contact with the dancers.

The Beethoven piano sonata #17 is set in three movements: Largo-Allegro, Adagio, and Allegretto. It is virtuosic, powerful and luminous, accompanying the dancers’ technical virtuosity while sharing with them the essence of the music. It is a darker piece, written when Beethoven was nearly deaf and fighting valiantly to continue composing.

Rose - variation is an exploration of the poetics of ballet vocabulary, revisited by the exceptional contemporary dancers of the CCN - Ballet de Lorraine.

source : CCN - Ballet de Lorraine

Mathilde Monnier occupies a place of reference in the landscape of  French and international contemporary dance. From piece to piece, she  thwarts expectations by presenting work in constant renewal.

Her  appointment as head of the Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon  Choreographic Center in 1994 marked the beginning of a series of  collaborations with personalities from various artistic fields (Jean-Luc  Nancy, Katerine, Christine Angot, La Ribot, Heiner Goebbels.. .).

She  created more than 50 choreographic pieces presented on major  international stages like the Avignon Festival, the Théâtre de la Ville  in Paris, passing through New York, Vienna, Berlin, London and receiving  several prizes for her work (Ministry of Culture prize, SACD Grand  Prize).

After directing the CND National Dance Center in Paris,  Mathilde Monnier resumed her creative work in 2019 with several pieces  like Please Please Please (2019) which she created in collaboration with  La Ribot & Tiago Rodiguez, Records (2021) and her latest, Black  Lights (2023).

Since 2020, Mathilde Monnier and her company have residing at the Halle Tropisme in Montpellier.

Source and more information: https://www.mathildemonnier.com/en/

Since acquiring the CCN title in 1999, the Centre Chorégraphique National - Ballet de Lorraine has dedicated itself to supporting contemporary choreographic creation. As of July 2011 the organization is under the general and artistic direction of Petter Jacobsson.
The CCN – Ballet de Lorraine and its company of 26 dancers is one of the most important companies working in Europe, performing contemporary creations while retaining and programming a rich and extensive repertory, spanning our modern history, made up of works by some of our generations most highly regarded choreographers.
The CCN functions as an art center and venue for multiple possibilities in the fields of research, experimentation and artistic creation. It is a platform open to many different disciplines, a space where the many visions of dance of today may meet. 

More information : http://ballet-de-lorraine.eu