Barbara Par Pietragalla - Tournée

Barbara par Pietragalla in Lyon

We are honored to welcome Barbara par Pietragalla to our stage in Bourse du Travail Lyon, a luminous encounter between dance, memory, and the indomitable voice of a singular chanteuse. In this creation, Marie-Claude Pietragalla sculpts space with a choreographer’s intelligence and a performer’s instinct, shaping a living portrait that moves between shadow and spotlight. Rather than offering a conventional biographical tribute, the piece traces sensations and silences, those spaces where movement seems to borrow the timbre of a voice and where the body becomes a stave for melody and poetry. The atmosphere breathes with allusions to a repertoire that has marked generations—echoes of L’Aigle noir, Dis, quand reviendras-tu ?, Nantes, or Ma plus belle histoire d’amour surfacing as emotional landmarks—while the choreography leans into tension, repose, and an eloquent minimalism. Expect a refined scenography of light, text, and gesture, in which the physical score converses with words and music, inviting the audience into a shared act of remembrance and presence.

Pietragalla’s current creative momentum

Marie-Claude Pietragalla’s recent seasons have reaffirmed her as a creator who marries virtuosity with a magnetic stage presence. After the widespread acclaim surrounding La Femme qui danse, she continues to expand an artistic language that blurs the lines between dance, theater, and spoken word. Her work, often developed within Le Théâtre du Corps, draws on dramaturgical clarity and a precise understanding of how light, sound, and space can partner the performer. Barbara par Pietragalla extends this trajectory: a distilled, human-scale experience, intimate yet theatrically potent, in which the choreographer engages the iconography of Barbara not as a museum piece but as living material. Through a finely tuned musicality of breath, suspension, and impulse, she attends to themes of memory, freedom, and the courage of the stage. The tournée that brings this creation to Lyon underscores Pietragalla’s ongoing dialogue with audiences across France, and we are proud to host a performance that speaks both to dance aficionados and to listeners who carry Barbara’s songs like keepsakes.

For this engagement at Bourse du Travail Lyon, our technical team is preparing an environment attentive to the delicate architecture of the piece: a sound palette that respects nuance and silence, lighting that sculpts volumes without overwhelming the intimate register, and sightlines that preserve the transparency of the performer’s presence. The scale of the stage will allow the choreography’s refined details—shifts of weight, turns of the head, the quiet geometry of the hands—to be experienced with clarity from every section of the hall. We anticipate a shared hush, the particular listening that a solo invites, and the rising energy that follows each breath and release. Barbara par Pietragalla invites the audience to read movement as if it were a diary and to hear music as if it were touch; it is precisely the kind of human, generous performance for which audiences gather, eager to meet an artist at the height of her craft and to rediscover, in the mirror of dance, the radiant echo of a timeless voice.