Programmation

A choreographic and theatrical investigation into family relationships.

Mulïer is a piece of dance on stilts performed by five amazons who, in a tribute to all women, deliver a ballet featuring moments of unison and dazzling bursts of energy.

Channelling the groove of his home city Lagos, the Nigerian choreographer revisits 1970s afrobeat with today’s hip hop, dance hall and funky house.

Fusing theatre and dance, this bold and essential new work addresses the issue of emancipation, with five young dancers in the process of turning professional.

South African choreographer Robyn Orlin reconnects with French singer Camille in her new piece, a concert/performance of riveting emotional power.

After The Great Tamer, Dimitris Papaioannou, whose every creation carries a sublime and impactful force, is once more likely to make a big impression. The best-known contemporary Greek choreographer is again taking on the challenge of an international production.

Yuval Pick, who heads the National Choreography Centre of Rillieux-laPape, has long approached his output as an exploration of the ties between dance and music. Vocabulary of need deepens this continuum, drawing on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Partita No.2 in D minor (BWV 1004) for solo violin.

The mother of African contemporary dance, who has just won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, reminds us that “a rootless tree cannot grow” in this autobiographical solo directed by Mikaël Serre.

In the spring of 2020, from an impossibility, the program Danser Encore was imagined by Julie Guibert, the new director of the Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon.

Ioannis Mandafounis seizes La Tornade, a monumental installation made out of paper, to propose two pieces: one interpreted by the young Ballet of the CNSMD of Lyon, the other, an original experimental duo.

With Entropic Now, Christophe Haleb creates a poetic, underground urban space where young people express their vision of another society to an immersed audience.

Who are today’s teenagers? What do they desire, and how do they see their future? This compelling video installation offers some answers.

Create your own avatar and step onto a digital dancefloor!

In this piece, joy is postulated as both a resistive force and a creative potential.

Mathurin Bolze hits the heights on the high plateaux in a piece for seven acrobats that explores the poetry of weightlessness!

Ever since the unforgettable Tragédie, Olivier Dubois has been shaking up bodies and minds. In Itmahrag, a hymn to freedom, seven Egyptian performers are transcended by mahraganat, a kind of music blending rap and electro.

The new piece by Hungarian choreographer Josef Nadj, Omma is primarily a story about sharing and transmission. Featuring a group of eight dancers, it is infused with influences, movements, cultures and histories.

A spiritual journey inspired by philosophy and Sufi music, giving rise to a poetic trance performed by the Franco-Syrian group and circus artist Sylvain Julien.

One of the most engaged choreographers of his generation, Serge Aimé Coulibaly casts a keen and kindly eye on the world, to inform dance that drinks from every spring.

A re-creation of Removing for 40 dancers, from the Jeune Ballet du Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse de Lyon and from the École du Centre national de la danse contemporaine d'Angers.

With Entropic Now, Christophe Haleb creates a poetic, underground urban space where young people express their vision of another society to an immersed audience.

The first part of a diptych created and performed by the “abstract b-boy” Rauf “RubberLegz” Yasit and the choreographer-performer Brigel Gjoka.

From diverse manifestations of teen turmoil to the invention of games, to rites around attraction and taboos, it is often amid chaos that adolescents undergo development and metamorphosis, and… become. They try things out, take chances, fall over and get back up. Clumsy or assured, they live their lives as they are, at once vulnerable and invincible.

Summoned to stand trial on stage, evil is articulated here through its creatures’ bodies and voices. A cathartic work on a universal theme.

A dance-gathering and audio app, Vibes lets users gather to simultaneously share a moment of dance in a given place.

Is it possible to watch a hip hop performance? Yes, anyone can! Get to it, Apaches!

New figure of the hip hop scene, the choreographer Ousmane Sy takes on the dancers of his group Paradoxsal in a rhythmic rhythmic journey where the singular feeds the collective.

The third episode of La Série Populaire, a project stemming from the desire to revisit practices related to popular events.

In a danced lecture that takes its title from Richard Baquié’s sculpture, the choreographer presents the multiple roots and shifting geographies of her artistic practice, and weaves them together.

A unique battle concept where all styles face off in a festive atmosphere to the rhythm of house music. The event will be an opportunity to pay a special tribute to its inventor, a hip-hop figure of international standing, who died suddenly last December.

Room With A View is the not entirely chance encounter between electronic-music maestro RONE and the collective (LA)HORDE, which heads the Ballet National de Marseille and featured in the last Lyon Dance Biennale.

Tu me suis ? is the encounter between a male dancer expert in the vocabulary of hip hop and a female clown versed in verbal acrobatics. A playful and mischievous format.

No longer used because it is carcinogenic, the building material elenit lends its name to a jubilant piece of dance-theatre about humankind’s tendency to fail.

Thierry Malandain's main source of inspiration is music: his choregraphy flows from the composer's intentions, and from the emotions and feelings he experiences while listening.

The second opus in a form that h o m e began to explore, everything is temporary – two dancers, two musicians – experiments with the perception of time.

With OÜM, Fouad Boussouf pays stirring homage to Umm Kulthum, the Egyptian diva of Arab song, and to Omar Khayyam, the Persian writer whose poems celebrating trance and rapture she sang.

In Carmen Torô, Torö, Torõ, the latest family show by José Montalvo, the choreographer invents a multifaceted, universal and joyous Carmen.

Denis Plassard invents a choreographic game with a criminal backdrop, and invites spectators to carry out an investigation to unmask the dancer/culprit!

French-Senegalese artist, a rising figure of today's dance, Amala Dianor claims a virtuoso and mixed dance.