Dance show - Ballets de Monte-Carlo

Pas croisés 

Following the success of the previous edition and in response to your requests, we have added a new date for the Ballets de Monte-Carlo.

Burn to bloom

With a keen interest in the theme of rebirth, Mimoza Koike explores *The Firebird*, the most famous of all phoenixes, to present a sensitive and restorative performance. How can we overcome our traumas and silence those inner voices that prevent us from moving forward? To be reborn and 
bring life back to bloom, something must first be consumed and disappear.

The original works presented by Mimoza Koike, a dancer and choreographer with the Ballets de Monte-Carlo, offer an opportunity to bring together dance and other artistic disciplines in a light-hearted format that creates a dialogue between works of art and the moving body. This approach to presenting dance is part of a shared commitment by the Ballets de Monte-Carlo and the national museums to offer programmes that restore the sense of performance art to the performing arts.

About the artists

Mimoza Koike, dancer and choreographer

Born in Tokyo in 1982, Mimoza Koike left Japan to study dance at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon. Initially recruited by the Grand Théâtre de Genève, in 2003 she joined Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, directed by Jean-Christophe Maillot, where she became principal soloist. Alongside her work as a virtuoso performer covering the contemporary and classical repertoires, Mimoza Koike choreographs pieces performed in Monaco, France and Japan. Since 2017, together with Asier Edeso, she has been artistic director of Pas croisés, a program of dance performances designed for the Musée Chagall, in partnership with Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. Find out more

Macarena Vilches, videographer-scenographer
Macarena Vilches is a Chilean visual artist, set designer and video artist, with a DNSEP from the Pavillon Bosio art and set design school in Monaco. Her work combines video and stop-motion animation, particularly in live performance. Her creations often accompany dance or the stage, weaving sensitive links between image and movement. 
By filming the evanescence of everyday life (the places we pass through, the moments we share), her work invites viewers to feel the emotion and meaning hidden in simple, ephemeral things. Her work, punctuated by details, is coloured by what the imagination does to our perceptions, like a subtle mute to reality.

A co-production of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo and the National Museums of the XXth Century in the Alpes-Maritimes.

Avec : Mimoza Koike (chorégraphe), Macarena Vilches (vidéaste-scénographe)

Practical information

This performance will be presented on Friday, June 19, 2026, at 8pm.
Doors open at 7pm
At the museum auditorium.
Full price: €10 / Students: €5
Booking required by email: p.wante@balletsdemontecarlo.com

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