• Saison 2024-2025
  • Danse
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  • Danse

À l’infini

Nacera Belaza / Noé Soulier / Lucinda Childs

  • Dates Jul 4 - Jul 9, 2025
  • Rates From €10 to €48
  • Location Opéra de Lyon
  • Running Time 1 hour 25 minutes – 1 intermission

In a few words

While Lucinda Childs, Nacera Belaza and Noé Soulier seem utterly different, they have been gathered for a very good reason; this production shines light on their similarities, especially regarding their pursuit of the very essence of dance.

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Introductory

Lucinda Childs and Nacera Belaza have been pursuing the same type of relentless research over time, and have honed their hypnotic approaches to dance from piece to piece. Their shared darkness replete with repetitions and changes dull the audience’s perceptions. Concerto, a seminal piece by the great master of postmodern dance, is a virtuoso tour de force of complexity. The skilful intricacy of the lines, trajectories and geometric shapes fashioned by the performers is an embodiment of Henryk Górecki’s intoxicating concerto for harpsichord and strings. While Lucinda Childs’ dancers fashion the space, Nacera Belaza’s are encouraged to withdraw. Claiming nothingness and affirmed lack of training as her weapons, the most existentialist of French choreographers conquers new territories with this new production for the Lyon Opera Ballet, sharing the mystery that is the journey of bodies in the world. Alongside these two pieces, Noé Soulier’s Self Duet, “a pas de deux with oneself” as he puts it, explores similar themes: the line between the outside and the inner world, or between ourselves, others and the world around us.

  1. Untitled 1

    Choreographer : Nacera Belaza
    Created by the Lyon Opera Ballet, to premiere in 2025

  2. Self Duet

    Choreographer : Noé Soulier
    Solo – created for the Lyon Opera Ballet in collaboration with Katrien De Bakker.
    Premiered in June 2021
    Co-production : CNDC Angers

  3. Concerto

    Choreographer : Lucinda Childs
    Premiered in 1993
    New addition to the Lyon Opera Ballet répertoire

With the support of Dance Reflection by Van Cleef & Arpels

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