The Creatures

Contemporary Dance

Choreography: Thierry Malandain
Choreographic performance with 14 artists
Music: Ludwig Van Beethoven, The Creatures of Prometheus
Length: 70 minutes

"A first class Creation by a choreographer who, like Prometheus passes on the sacred fire to his creatures, the remarkable creatures of the Ballet Biarritz."
- René Sirvin, Le Figaro/France

On the music of "The Creatures of Prometheus”, Beethoven’s only opus ballet; Thierry Malandain combines contemporary features and classical tradition, imagination and virtuosity, in evoking both the genesis and the history of the dancing art thought the performance of fourteen radiant and eloquent dancers.
‘There were many nights, many mornings, then one day, the first man was born a dancer. Alone, his arms stretched towards no one else.  Then, he was given the first woman as a partner.  Dancing with somebody was much better, but very soon the desire to create new movements became crucial.  They then brought along some new creatures to join in and mankind multiplied rapidly until the temptation for a more liberated form of dance was felt.  Adam and Eve followed its direction leaving Paradise behind them in order to invent new steps.”

"The Creatures” is en enchanting ballet. Faced to the effervescence of this choreography, at times explosive, physical and expressive, dealing with humanity, love, death and rebirth, one feels elated  and one has the feeling of being carried away towards something that is more simple and that raises you to exaltation. 

About Thierry Malandain:

Conducted by the French choreographer Thierry Malandain, The National Choreographic Biarritz Ballet Centre has gained new recognition. One can find in Thierry Malandain’s work a long-lasting concern for details, from the "pas de deux” to the "arabesque”, coupled with a constantly renewed musicality.

Thierry Malandain is the author of about sixty choreographies, Laureate of several choreographic competitions, he ended his career as a dancer in 1986 in order to set up the "Compagnie Temps Présent” which was awarded several prizes, such as the "Fondation de France” Prize or the "New Talent” prize from the SACD (Drama Authors and Composer’s Society).

As "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres”, nominated in 2004 for the Benois de la Danse at the Bolchoi Theatre in Moscow, awarded the Prize of the best foreign performance at the 19th International Ballet Festival in Havana and the Cultural Prize of the Foundation Sabino Arana for Ballet Biarritz in Bilbao 2005, many observers around the world see him as one the worthy heir of the classical masters.

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