The Biennale invites you to step into dance through two thematic trails proposed jointly with Lyon's cultural partners.
Through visual arts
Biennale d’art contemporain x macLyon x Biennale de la danse
Dance has close ties with the vast field of the visual arts. Many of the artists in this edition combine visual and choreographic explorations, or appropriate other media such as video or virtual reality. This provides the opportunity for a nod to the Biennale d’art contemporain, which is teaming up with macLyon to invite you on a visual arts trail as part of the Biennale programme.
Show selection
17, 18, 19, 28, 29 sept. 2023
Lyon, Region
Orchestrating an encounter-cum-fight between a woman and a statue pedestal, Phia Ménard continues to chip away at the foundations of our societies’ patriarchal violence, through the imaginative realm and a call to dream.
- Spectacle
Dimitris Papaioannou – Ink
Maison de la Danse
In a nightmarish, post-apocalyptic setting, two bodies clash as the water rises. In a duet/duel to the death, and for love, Ink probes the dark side of desire and the impossible search for self.
Pôle Pixel
Combining virtual reality and physical bodies, No reality now styles itself as a witchcraft ritual. Spanning the gamut of sensations courtesy of digital, this one-of-a-kind creation endeavours to ward off death.
- Spectacle
Tumbleweed – Dehors est blanc
LES SUBS
A show for three levitating bodies, Dehors est blanc causes us to gradually lose our bearings. By disorientating our perceptual habits, Tumbleweed reminds us that our relationship with the world is fragile indeed.
- Spectacle
Peeping Tom – S 62° 58’, W 60° 39’
TNP, Villeurbanne
In a spectacular setting, S 62° 58’, W 60° 39’, takes you on a walk that melds apocalyptic fiction and scenes of the show being created. This story of our era conceals a profound reflection on the creative act.
19, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29 sept. 2023
Metropolitan area, Region
As avatars grow ever more realistic, and photographic filters smooth our features, the boundaries between real and virtual bodies are blurring. (LA)HORDE has chosen this twilight zone as its new field of critical exploration.
Usines Fagor
In a makeshift garage, a helmeted biker and an outlandish creature, accompanied by mysterious mechanics, engage in a ritual to the sound of a harpsichord. A frontal collision between courtship display and kill.
Through music
Nuits sonores x Biennale de la danse
Plenty of Biennale shows remind us of the strong relationship between dance and music, a bottomless source of inspiration for many choreographers.
A good reason to invite Nuits Sonores, Lyon’s electronic-music festival, to offer you a music trail as part of the Biennale line-up.
Show selection
Opéra de Lyon
The shifting entity of 20 Opéra de Lyon dancers instils its relational and proliferative modes in the mycelium, the underground part of a fungus that extends its filaments so that information can circulate.
Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse
With gurning face and high-voltage hips, Marlene Monteiro Freitas electrified the stage in Guintche. Now she is reviving this eye-catching solo from 2010, augmented with live music by two virtuoso drummers.
- Spectacle
Tom Grand Mourcel – Solus Break
LES SUBS
Nurtured by hip hop and club cultures, Tom Grand Mourcel has imagined a self-portrait in dance. In Solus Break, surrounded by a wall of speakers and up close to his audience, he takes a trip through the music genres that have made him who he is.
Opéra de Lyon
A cross-pollination between walking and the blues, EXIT ABOVE, after the tempest / d'après la tempête / naar de storm is a dual return to the choreographer’s roots in gesture and contemporary music. Thirteen performers take us on an escapade that reaches as far as pop.
- Spectacle
Compagnie Dyptik – Le Grand Bal
15, 20, 21, 22 sept. – 3, 5, 7, 10, 13, 17 oct. 2023
Metropolitan area, Region
Le Grand Bal spreads a mysterious choreographic fever that makes 10 urban dancers pulsate. A way of setting in motion again bodies brought to a standstill by the pandemic and contemporary crises.