REPERTOire 25-26
The repertoire of the Cannes Junior Ballet blends ballets from the great ballet repertoire, creations by emerging choreographers, and reprises or creations by recognised choreographers. It is revisited every year to introduce novelty and enrich the knowledge of our young dancers.
SUDDENLY, HERE
Choreographer: Rubén Julliard
Music: Rubén Julliard, Gavin Luke, Nadine Rossello, Iván Julliard, Hénoc Waysenson
Created: 2025
Duration: 24 min
10 dancers
“SUDDENLY, HERE” is a choreographic piece rooted in the present moment — that unpredictable flash when bodies meet, touch, and discover each other. It is in this fragile, often silent zone that encounter is born. The energy of the other — their presence, attention, and movement — triggers and gives life to it.
Every day we experience dozens, even hundreds, of micro-encounters. But which ones capture our attention? What makes a presence suddenly affect us? Why do we sometimes choose to walk toward the other and extend the exchange? From this point, a story begins — whether brief or lasting, noticeable or imperceptible, it leaves a trace.
Even without words, even in silence or in what might seem like a non-event, encounter acts. The piece explores this tension between the ephemeral and the essential. We never leave an encounter unchanged — whether we want to or not — because it alters our paths, our bodies, and our thoughts. “SUDDENLY, HERE” gives form to these suspended instants and subtle or intense contacts that, without warning, move us.
Photo: Patrick Massabo
INFINITE
Choreography: Lorena Nogal
Artistic and Pedagogical Direction: Paola Cantalupo
Music: Meredith Monk and others
Created: 2025
Duration: 20 min
10 dancers
More than just dance — by engaging with contemporary visual arts, the Cannes Junior Ballet presents original choreographic performances that resonate with the work of artist Jean-Michel Othoniel.
Still students, already professionals — following last year’s festival where they performed during the showcase evening dedicated to the six national superior dance schools — this new graduating class of students returns with energy and boldness.
Under the leadership of Lorena Nogal, a member of the renowned collective La Veronal, they perform in a major venue on the Croisette — the newly renovated Villa La Malmaison, entirely devoted to contemporary art.
Over a series of in-situ performances titled Infinite, dance engages with the visual arts, and the proximity of the performers to the audience creates a stimulating and bold artistic experience.
MOZART DANSE (EXTRACTS)
Choreography: Jean-Sébastien Colau and Vincenzo Veneruso
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Created in 2022
Duration: 7 min
8 dancers
Jean-Sébastien Colau, international freelance dancer and choreographer, and Vincenzo Veneruso, dancer and choreographer, have created an abstract piece for the DNSP prépa and DNSP1 classes, inspired by the genius and beauty of Mozart's music.
A lover of freedom, equality and fraternity, convinced of the need for mutual exchange and joint work to advance humanity as a whole, and for the arts, sciences and ideas to progress, Mozart sought throughout his life to find himself.
He draws on the diversity and richness of the emotions that his music can convey: joy, beauty, overflowing life, exuberance as well as sensitivity, depth and fragility...
Hommage à la musique de Mozart’ highlights the universal themes of creative genius, creative freedom, madness and the flaws that are often the hallmarks of great creators.
Photo: Sakher Almonem
CREPUSCOLO
Choreography: Francesco Curci
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Created: 2022
Duration: 6 min
2 dancers
Crepuscolo (“Twilight”) is a poem in motion — a celebration of the final moments of love. Originally inspired by Mozart’s farewell to his wife Constance, this duet became an ode to all endings that exist in light.
The name Crepuscolo evokes that suspended moment when day meets night. It symbolizes the soft beauty of farewell — as those we love leave, but love itself remains alive in us. Through dance, bodies do not narrate an ending but embody the strength of enduring connection.
Photo: Sakher Almonem
THE LOVE DUET FROM ROMEO AND JULIET
Choreographer: Jean-Christophe Maillot
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Duration: 8 min
2 dancers
This iconic balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet by Jean-Christophe Maillot — the artistic director of the Ballets de Monte-Carlo and an alumnus of PNSD Rosella Hightower — elevates emotional intensity through poetic and modern choreography.
Danced by the students of the Cannes Jeune Ballet, it embodies beauty, passion, and the timeless connection between the protagonists at this pivotal moment in the story.
Photo: Sakher Almonem
