Beauséjour, Cie Käfig

Beauséjour by Cie Käfig at Théâtre Albert Camus

From our stage at Théâtre Albert Camus, we are delighted to welcome Cie Käfig with Beauséjour, a creation that invites audiences into a living, breathing space of encounters and memory. The title signals a place to pause and belong, and the choreography develops that idea with the company’s unmistakable blend of hip-hop virtuosity and contemporary theatricality. Expect an ensemble of dancers who sculpt the air with fleet footwork, weightless suspensions, and elastic partnering, drawing delicate lines and sudden bursts of energy that resonate beautifully in our room. The visual world of Beauséjour plays with perspective, light, and rhythm, so that each entrance and exit feels like a new threshold crossed; the score, at once percussive and melodic, keeps the pulse of the piece close to the audience’s breath. Presented in our intimate auditorium, the work’s sense of community becomes palpable: bodies assemble and part, strangers become neighbors, and the stage turns into a crossroads where stories surface and recede. Hosting this production in our theater, so close to the city’s own urban heartbeat, amplifies its themes of place, passage, and shared time.

Cie Käfig’s artistic momentum

Cie Käfig arrives at Théâtre Albert Camus in full creative momentum, carrying the reputation forged by a repertoire that has traveled the world and evolved with each new encounter. The company’s signature is the way hip-hop technique opens onto other disciplines and aesthetics, from baroque textures to digital illusions. Many in our audience discovered this language through emblematic works like Pixel, where bodies and projected geometries enter into kinetic dialogue; Boxe Boxe, with its nimble counterpoint between pugilistic gesture and chamber music; Folia, a jubilant meeting of urban dance and early music; or Zéphyr, a meditation on breath, wind, and balance. Beauséjour extends that spirit of crossing by focusing on how architecture of movement can reveal architecture of feeling: thresholds, corridors, courtyards of memory. The troupe’s investment in the Lyon region—through sustained pedagogy, collaborations, and the dynamism of local festivals—gives this appearance a special resonance for our house. As a venue committed to movement arts that embrace risk and generosity, we consider Beauséjour a timely chapter in Käfig’s ongoing dialogue between precision and poetry, technique and tenderness, the city and the stage.

At Théâtre Albert Camus, Beauséjour will unfurl with the kind of proximity that lets you hear the dancers’ breath and sense the ripple of phrasing from one body to the next. Our stage lends depth to the work’s shifting tableaux: quiet, finely etched solos that invite contemplation; charged duets where trust and counterweight keep time; and full-ensemble sweeps in which patterns bloom and dissolve like neighborhoods forming and reforming before your eyes. Lighting glides across surfaces and silhouettes, sketching rooms without walls; music moves from heartbeat thrum to buoyant cadence, guiding the audience through arrivals, departures, and returns. We have prepared the room to serve the choreography’s delicacy and drive—every sightline clear, every accent of the score alive—so that the dramaturgy of place is felt in the body as much as it is seen. Beauséjour feels created for a theater like ours, where the audience, gathered close, becomes part of the piece’s fabric: witnesses to gestures of hospitality, echoes of childhood play, fragments of collective memory that drift into focus and then drift away, leaving a resonance that lingers long after the final blackout.