{"id":2389441,"date":"2026-04-26T01:30:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2389441"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:30:39","slug":"daft-punks-thomas-bangalter-announces-latest-ballet-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/daft-punks-thomas-bangalter-announces-latest-ballet-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Daft Punk&#8217;s Thomas Bangalter Announces Latest Ballet Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">Thomas Bangalter, one-half of legendary French electronic duo <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/daft-punk\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">Daft Punk<\/a>, is gearing up for an interesting direction on his latest album. <\/p>\n<p><em class=\"italic\">Mirage<\/em>, set to release this summer, is the score from the acclaimed ballet, which premiered at the Grand Theatre de Geneve in May 2025. The French composer teamed up with choreographer Damien Jalet and artist K\u014dhei Nawa to score 16 dancers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">Self-described as taking \u201ca sculptural approach to sound and music,\u201d Bangalter\u2019s 16 tracks mirror the \u201cchanging states\u201d of the dancers throughout the performance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">Bangalter previously worked with Jalet in 2024 for <em class=\"italic\">Chiroptera, <\/em>which was also his most recent solo album. The album was a soundtrack to a collaborative performance art piece in which 150 ballet dancers performed across multiple floors, with their black and white outfits making out words. Costumes were provided by Chanel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">Although Daft Punk disbanded in 2021, Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo are still active, the latter less so. In 2023, Homem-Christo produced \u201cModern Jam\u201d from Travis Scott\u2019s <em class=\"italic\">Utopia <\/em>and most recently contributed to Rosalia\u2019s 2025 album <em class=\"italic\">Lux<\/em> for the song \u201cReliquia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">Below, listen to \u201cMirage: Part II.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.complex.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Bangalter, one-half of legendary French electronic duo Daft Punk, is gearing up for an interesting direction on his latest album. Mirage, set to release this summer, is the score from the acclaimed ballet, which premiered at the Grand Theatre de Geneve in May 2025. The French composer teamed up with choreographer Damien Jalet and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2389442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2389441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Daft-Punks-Thomas-Bangalter-Announces-Latest-Ballet-Score.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389443,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389441\/revisions\/2389443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2389442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}