Silhouette, Estro, Nocturnes

Silhouette, Estro, Nocturnes Malandain Ballet Biarritz Choreographies by Thierry Malandain Silhouette Ballet for 1 dancer Choreography, sets and costumes, Thierry Malandain Music Ludwig van Beethoven Work: 3rd movement of sonata n°30, Lighting design, Jean-Claude Asquié Dancer, Frederik Deberdt Created in Biarritz, in the gardens of the Hôtel de Silhouette, residence of Etienne de Silhouette, comptroller general of finances under Louis XV, gave his name to the portraits cut out from the shadow of the face, probably because his reforms tended to leave to the taxpayers only the shadow of their fortune. This solo, set for the dancer Frederik Deberdt, is a miniature through which passes the shadow of Vaslav Nijinsky. Estro Ballet for 20 dancers Choreography, set and costumes Thierry Malandain Music Antonio Vivaldi Works: Stabat Mater and Estro Amonico op. 3 Light design, Jean-Claude Asquié Malandain ballet Biarritz Thierry Malandain relies on pages from the Stabat Mater and on Antonio Vivaldi’s Estro armonico Op.3, an ’over-vitamined’ score, almost subject to the tyranny of always more, hence the temptation to call this ballet: is it too much? Thierry Malandain creates around the desire for elevation and the efforts to be made to reach the summit, referring to the words of André Lendger: ’it is easier today to climb an 8000 meter peak than to climb a few centimeters inside oneself. Nocturnes Ballet for 22 dancers Choreography, Thierry Malandain Music Frederic Chopin Works: Nocturnes Light design, Jean-Claude Asquié Vestiges ’of a black day sadder than the nights’ would have said Charles Baudelaire, Nocturnes presents itself like a fresco, like a dream crushed under the weight of an eternal melancholy.