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- The shows to discover
- The shows to discover
- The shows to discover
- The shows to discover
- The shows to discover
The shows to discover
- Spectacle
Lia Rodrigues – Borda
6 & 8 sept. 2025
Lyon, Region
Metamorphoses, overflows, a dialogue between bodies and materials… Lia Rodrigues’ Borda is not some geographical border, demarcated by walls or barbed wire; it is a place of frictions and invisible passageways, a space for caring, for fertile contaminations and joyous hybridisations.
- Spectacle
Philippe Decouflé – Entre-Temps
26 sept – 4 oct
Maison de la danse
A group of all ages, caught up in what is practically a historical frieze, walk in the same direction and then dance, tirelessly. Like its evocative title, Entre-Temps, the new piece by the renowned Philippe Decouflé, flows, passes, repeats and, above all, morphs.
8 – 13 sept. 2025
Opéra de Lyon
Three choreographers, three visions of the night.
- Spectacle
Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company – William Forsythe – Ioannis Mandafounis – Undertainment + Lisa
21 & 22 sept. 2025
Maison de la danse
This double bill celebrates the handover by the visionary William Forsythe, founder of the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company, and the changing of the guard, in the person of Ioannis Mandafounis.
The shows to discover
19 & 20 sept. 2025
Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse
An uplifting tribute to Carmen Amaya, scintillating flamenco artist and women’s heritage icon. Her energy resonates in FUGACES, where seven performers capture her earthy intensity through a hybrid language.
- Spectacle
Idio Chichava – Vagabundus
24, 25 & 26 sept. 2025
Metropolitan area, Region
In this vibrant work with epic sweep by Mozambican choreographer Idio Chichava, dance and song combine to celebrate migration as a quest for identity and an act of survival.
- Évènement
Immersion All Styles – Feeling First
27 sept 2025
Les Grandes Locos
Dive into a unique dance experience: an uplifting journey through hip-hop and club dances, guided by a new generation of artists. Be wowed by inspirational performances – from waacking to house to voguing – that twist conventions, fuse aesthetics and share marginal cultures. An intense day of shows, jams, workshops and a battle, with an emphasis on connections, spontaneity and freestyling. Feeling first!
- Spectacle
Collectif A/R – Dancing
25 & 26 sept. 2025
Metropolitan area, Region
In Dancing, Collectif A/R transforms the stage into an immersive space of dance, live music and light installation.
- Spectacle
Julien Fournet – L'Enfance majeure
20 & 21 sept. 2025
le Ciel - scène européenne pour l’enfance et la jeunesse
In this blend of dance, theatre and circus, the street becomes a carnivalesque playground where the potency of childhood fuels a micro-utopia.
The shows to discover
17 & 18 sept. 2025
Lyon, Region
Último Helecho takes us on a fantastical underground journey rooted in Argentine and Peruvian folklore.
- Spectacle
Yuval Pick – Into the Silence
23 & 24 sept. 2025
Théâtre de la Renaissance
Amid an architecture of light lines and Bach’s virtuoso harmonies, a duet for female dancers and a solitary man venture out Into the Silence. A search for harmony and serenity, rather than for the void.
- Spectacle
Dalila Belaza – Orage
16 & 17 sept. 2025
Théâtre National Populaire, Villeurbanne
What if music were a portal leading to an elsewhere? In Orage, Dalila Belaza, with composer Serge Teyssot-Gay, explores where personal and universal meet.
- Spectacle
Collectif A/R – Dancing
25 & 26 sept. 2025
Metropolitan area, Region
In Dancing, Collectif A/R transforms the stage into an immersive space of dance, live music and light installation.
The shows to discover
10 & 11 sept. 2025
Théâtre National Populaire, Villeurbanne
MONUMENT 0.10: The Living Monument immerses the audience in a universe where color and slowed-down movement create a unique sensory experience, offering through vibrant tableaux a meditative journey into a dreamlike world where time seems almost suspended.
- Installation
Eszter Salamon – Landscaping
6 – 28 sept. 2025
La Cité Internationale de la Gastronomie de Lyon – Grand Hôtel-Dieu
Shot near Bergen, Landscaping is a video installation developed with Carte Blanche, the Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance, plunging us into a world where humans and nature co-exist differently.
19 & 20 sept. 2025
Metropolitan area, Region
In Open my chest and place our tomorrows inside, Emmanuel Eggermont channels the energy of youth into a vibrant solo.
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Miet Warlop – INHALE DELIRIUM EXHALE
15 & 16 sept. 2025
Metropolitan area, Region
Handling long strips of shimmering fabrics, seven dancer-musicians give material form to the invisible kingdoms of their delirious imaginations.
16 & 17 sept. 2025
Maison de la danse
When there’s dance, what is it that dances? In Christian Rizzo’s pieces, the answer is not only human: movement is sculpted in a dialogue between bodies, space, light and music, and in the gaps that breathe between them, opening up infinite possibilities.
The shows to discover
- Spectacle
Collectif ÈS – CCNO – About Lambada
18 & 19 sept. 2025
Théâtre de la Renaissance
1989, while the Berlin Wall was being pulled down, another phenomenon was racing around the globe: Lambada by Kaoma. And what if these two events – one political, the other musical – were combined to symbolise a change of era?
18 – 20 sept. 2025
Les Grandes Locos
Comparing military and militant bodies, this pop/punk show offers a manifesto for change.
11 & 12 sept. 2025
Les Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon
In a country like Brazil, where people from different cultures and historical backgrounds live together, what can identity mean? Grupo Cena 11, led by choreographer Alejandro Ahmed, has an answer: our encounter with otherness. And above all, the otherness inside of us
17, 18 & 19 sept. 2025
Les Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon
In 2014, Jan Martens made waves on the international scene with THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER. In 2025, the choreographer brings this piece back to life with a new generation of dancers.
- Spectacle
Gisèle Vienne – Crowd
11, 12 & 13 sept. 2025
Les Grandes Locos
For this augmented and site-specific re-creation in the former SNCF maintenance depot — now transformed into Les Grandes Locos — Crowd brings together 18 dancers, each embodying a distinct character and story.
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