The "Cinderella" interpretation by French choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot is 25 years old – and timelessly beautiful. His version of the Grimm fairy tale about the poor girl who is not allowed to go to the prince's ball with her wicked stepsisters is already a dance technique that combines classical and contemporary breaks. Maillot places Cinderella in a disoriented society of absurd characters who revolve only around themselves, contrasting her with the emotional world of the widowed father. His deceased wife is the good fairy who stays by Cinderella's side. To Sergei Prokofiev's ballet composition, premiered in 1945 at the Moscow Bolshoi Theater, the beautiful child dances barefoot into the prince's heart. Because she has no shoes, which complicates the prince's later search for Cinderella …