Midi pile ou le Concerto du soleil

“In 1998, set to Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra — at once ‘monk and rogue’, in the words of Claude Rostand — François d’Assise opened as the very first production presented by the Centre Chorégraphique National at the Gare du Midi in Biarritz. Games, dreams, desires, a whirl of feelings hovering at the surface of the notes: this Concerto, which ‘doesn’t strike noon a minute too late’, as the composer mischievously put it, brings us back to the dazzlements of childhood. Beautiful and joyful, ever untameable and strong, it will be filled to the brim with dance — in glory of the Sun that gives both day and light.”

Thierry Malandain