Tour calendar

January 2025

  • 23 : Aix-en-Provence (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 24 : Aix-en-Provence (FR) - Midi-Minuit

October 2025

  • 09 : Saint-Etienne (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 14 : Echirolles (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 15 : Echirolles (FR) - Midi-Minuit

November 2025

  • 23 : Vichy (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 25 : Neuilly-sur-Seine (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 27 : Plaisir (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 28 : Plaisir (FR) - Midi-Minuit

January 2026

  • 27 : Lyon (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 28 : Lyon (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 29 : Lyon (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 30 : Lyon (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 31 : Lyon (FR) - Midi-Minuit

February 2026

  • 02 : Lyon (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 03 : Lyon (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 04 : Lyon (FR) - Midi-Minuit

March 2026

  • 21 : Massy (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 22 : Massy (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 12 : Meudon (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 17 : Saint-Germain-en-Laye (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 31 : Compiègne (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 10 : Arcachon (FR) - Midi-Minuit

April 2026

  • 02 : Lanester (FR) - Midi-Minuit

May 2026

  • 29 : Biarritz (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 30 : Biarritz (FR) - Midi-Minuit
  • 31 : Biarritz (FR) - Midi-Minuit

June 2026

  • 01 : Biarritz (FR) - Midi-Minuit

November 2026

February 2027

April 2027

Midi-Minuit

Malandain Ballet Biarritz

Midi Pile, ou le concerto du soleil

Choreography Thierry Malandain
Music Francis Poulenc
Set and costumes design Jorge Gallardo
Lighting design François Menou

Created in May 2025 – Duration 20min
For 12 dancers

Minuit et Demi, ou le coeur mystérieux

Choreography Thierry Malandain
Music Camille Saint-Saëns
Set and costumes design Jorge Gallardo
Lighting design François Menou
Costumes production Véronique Murat, Charlotte Margnoux, Léa Murat

Created in May 2025 – Duration 40min
For 22 dancers

Boléro

Choreography Thierry Malandain
Music Maurice Ravel
Set design and costumes Jorge Gallardo
Lighting design Jean-Claude Asquié

Created in 2001 – Duration 15min
For 12 dancers

For Thierry Malandain, music has always been at the heart of his inspiration. His ballets all spring from a close encounter with a composer, a face to face between creatives across ages, over distances and especially beyond words… In this new programme, Thierry Malandain invites three «fellow travellers», three eminent figures of French music betwixt romanticism, impressionism and modernity. Each, in his own era and style, has encompassed a constant search for balance between tradition and innovation – Saint- Saëns and Ravel are known for their scholarly and innovative orchestrations, while Poulenc often combined the simplicity of popular melodies with modern and bold harmonies.

Midi-Minuit (Noon-Midnight) encapsulates three decades of creation by Thierry Malandain: Midi pile (High Noon) or the Concerto du Soleil (Sun Concerto), a recreation of a ballet first produced in 1995 accompanied by Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor, a new creation entitled Minuit et Demi (Half Past Midnight), or Le Coeur Mystérieux (The Mysterious Heart) accompanied by Camille Saint-Saëns’ melodies, and lastly Maurice Ravel’s timeless Boléro. These three pieces, written for dance ensembles, pay tribute to this famous French school, elegant and refined, with subtle orchestrations giving centre stage to the melody’s expressiveness, and which continues to be influential to this day. A night of Dance and Music shooting for the moon but coming together as one!

Production CCN Malandain Ballet Biarritz
Coproduction Opéra de Saint-Etienne, La RéPAC La Rampe et La Ponatière – Echirolles, Teatro Victoria Eugenia de Donostia / San Sebastián – Ballet T, Centre Chorégraphique National / Malandain Ballet Biarritz
Supports Carré des Mécènes du Malandain Ballet Biarritz • Association des Amis du Malandain Ballet Biarritz

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