Water theatre grove, Baroque water garden in Palace of Versailles, France.

The Water Theatre Grove is a square clearing 180 metres on each side in the northern part of the gardens of Versailles, about 200 metres north-west of the palace. Tall clipped hedges enclose a lawn crossed by pale paths that meet at the centre, where Jean-Michel Othoniel's Les Belles Danses, arabesques of 1,751 large Murano glass beads, stands on the site of the old stage.

The grove was built between 1671 and 1674 on a design by André Le Nôtre from drawings by Charles Le Brun; the decorator and stage machinist Vigarani coordinated the fountainers Claude Denis and Francine and the sculptors Gros, Tuby and Gaspard Marsy. Its centre held a stage backed by water fountains, with grassed tiers in front. Jules Hardouin-Mansart modified it in 1704; Louis XV kept only its layout, and Louis XVI gave it its present design as the Bosquet du Rond-Vert during the 1774-1776 replanting. Storm-damaged in 1999, it was remade by Louis Benech and Jean-Michel Othoniel and reopened in May 2015 under its first name.

The contemporary glass sculptures by Jean-Michel Othoniel echo the dance movements once performed at Louis XIV's court through their flowing forms. These artworks create a bridge between the baroque past and modern times that visitors encounter while walking through the space.

The grove lies in the northern part of the park, about 200 metres north-west of the palace's central block, between the Allée de l'Été and the Allée des Prés. The Bassin de Cérès stands at its south-west corner, the Rond-point des Philosophes at its south-east corner. The ground is grass and pale dirt paths, so it can be muddy after rain.

At the eastern point of the grove stood the Bassin de l'Île des Enfants, a lead sculpture by Hardy showing an island with six naked children playing with flowers, plus two figures of children splashing in the water. The basin survives but awaits restoration, and the four statues once set on the central lawn are now kept inside the château.