2002 : Prix Danza & Danza of the best Best performance granted by critics Italian.
2002: Knighthood of the Légion d'honneur.
2001: Nijinski Award for Best Choreography for the production of La Belle.
1999: Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit of Monaco.
Since 1993, and on the appointment of Princess Caroline of Monaco, he has been the artistic director of Les Ballets de Monte Carlo.
1992: Knighthood of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
In 1983, he became the choreographer and director of the Ballet du Grand Théâtre in Tours.
In 1978 he was hired by the choreographer John Neumeier in the company of Ballet de Hambourg as a soloist.
1977: Prix de Lausanne.
He studied at the dance conservatory in Tours before enrolling at the upper school of dance in Cannes, where Rosella Hightower was his primary teacher.
His eldest child and daughter Juliette Maillot, an actress and business student in Paris, is a well-known childhood friend of Charlotte Casiraghi, daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco and Stefano Casiraghi.