Dance

A choreographic and theatrical investigation into family relationships.

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

Dancing young… Dance and youth / youth of dance

No Reality Now by Vincent Dupont and Charles Ayats.

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

The documentary retraces the adventure of the creation of the show Urgence which brought together, for several months, the HKC Company, Amala Dianor and five young dancers in a sensitive and demanding project...

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.

LAPAS Lyon and AuRA are holding two new events as part of the Lyon Dance Biennale, featuring guests with complementary profiles, around producing and supporting artists’ projects in the French-speaking space and in the Alps.

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.