Noé > Malandain Ballet Biarritz

In choosing the myth of Noah as inspiration, Thierry Malandain again looks at the themes which are dear to him: Humanity and its future, destiny, the environment. Water, by turns a destructive or life-giving element, is envisaged here as that which regenerates humanity, which has embarked on a forty- day journey on the Ark and will emerge therefrom transformed. «Through the myth of the Deluge, shared by various traditions, the joyous figure of Noah embodies a sort of break in humanity’s history. Summing up the past and preparing the future, he symbolises the birth of a new world, better than the previous one.» (T. Malandain)

Choreography : Thierry Malandain
Music: Gioacchino Rossini - Messa di Gloria
Set and costumes: Jorge Gallardo
Lighting design: Francis Mannaert
Dressmaker: Véronique Murat
Set and accessories production: Frédéric Vadé

_{Coproducers Chaillot - Théâtre National de la danse (Paris), Opéra de Saint-Etienne, Donostia Kultura - Teatro Victoria Eugenia de Donostia / San Sebastian - Ballet T, CCN Malandain Ballet Biarritz.
Partners Opéra de Reims, Théâtre de Gascogne - le Pôle, Theater Bonn (Germany), Forum am Schlosspark – Ludwigsburg (Germany)}