Thierry Malandain au Centre national de la danse

As part of the Franco-Russian year, the Centre National de la Danse presented, from January 6th to April 6th, an exhibition entitled Dans le sillage des Ballets russes (1929-1959), implemented by Claire Rousier, Florence Poudru and Agnès Dahan. On this occasion, the Malandain Ballet Biarritz performed from March 10th to 12th 2010 in the Grand Studio of the Centre National de la Danse.

“To take up root in the history of dance, my work borrows from the choreographic heritage, as to seek to understand others, is to wish to know yourself better. I have thus revisited, while adding to them the raw material of life, works formerly created by Noverre, Angiolini, Vigano, Petipa, Mariquita, Fokine, Nijinska, Massin and Lifar. A ballet is revived when the issue that gave rise to it persists or becomes timely once again. The exhibition Dans le Sillage des Ballets russes (1929-1959) allows a presentation in revived versions of L’Après-midi d’un faune (The Afternoon of a Faun), la Mort du cygne (The Dying Swan), and two extracts from Portrait de l’Infante, a ballet commissioned in 1923 from Maurice Ravel by Sonia Pavlov, a dancer at the Opéra Comique”.