Midnight and a half, or the mysterious Heart and Nocturnes: Thierry Malandain's new creation

photo CCN Malandain Ballet Biarritz On the Macabre Dance, "tube" of classical music where one "hears to slam the bones of dancers", on the Coucou at the bottom of the woods and Volière from the Carnival of Animals, and on new melodies for the orchestra of Camille Saint-Saëns, Midnight and half borrows from the poetic cadences of Pierre Aguêtre, Armand Renaud and Victor Hugo. The mysterious Heart is more difficult to translate, because if dancing…