Beauséjour, Cie Käfig

Beausejour at Théâtre Albert Camus

As Théâtre Albert Camus prepares to welcome Cie Käfig for Beausejour, we are thrilled to open our stage to a company whose signature blend of hip-hop virtuosity and contemporary theatricality has long electrified audiences across the Lyon area and far beyond. From our vantage point inside the hall, the anticipation is palpable: the swirl of lighting cues, the steady hum of pre-show checks, the quiet focus of our technical team aligning sound and space to the company’s rhythm. Beausejour invites our audience into a living, breathing conversation between bodies, music, and space—an encounter in which movement becomes narrative and group dynamics reveal the urgency of the present moment. Cie Käfig’s work is renowned for a heightened musicality, a taste for risk and surprise, and an ability to shift from the razor-edge precision of a crew to the intimate pulse of a solo or duet. In this new chapter, the performers channel that kinetic intelligence into sequences that echo the urban world outside our doors while crafting a poetic world of their own inside our theater’s black box.

The artistic momentum of Cie Käfig

Hosting this performance, we recognize Beausejour as part of a larger momentum that continues to shape the contemporary dance landscape. Under the artistic direction of Mourad Merzouki, Cie Käfig has consistently expanded the vocabulary of hip-hop by intertwining it with dramaturgical clarity and a refined sense of imagery. Recent seasons have seen the company touring powerhouse works such as Pixel, where digital illusions dialog with the dancers’ bodies; Vertikal, with its gravity-defying physicality; Folia, which reinvents baroque energies through urban movement; and Zéphyr, a tribute to the elements and those who brave them. In parallel, the company’s anchoring in the region resonates with a dynamic ecosystem of festivals and training initiatives, linking professional excellence to cultural access. From our perspective at Théâtre Albert Camus, this context matters: it means that when the curtain rises for Beausejour, audiences will encounter not only a standout creation but also the living continuity of an artist who has made dialogue—between disciplines, communities, and generations—central to his practice. The result is a work that breathes with generosity, precision, and an open door to anyone ready to listen through movement.

What does this mean for the experience inside Théâtre Albert Camus? It means a stage shaped to invite proximity: the whisper of a footfall, the sudden burst of collective energy, the sculpted silence that follows a suspended lift. Our hall is designed to hold this kind of dramaturgy—clear sightlines, a warm acoustic, and a technical grid ready to transform in response to the score’s contours and the choreography’s shifting geometries. We value the way Cie Käfig brings audiences together across ages and backgrounds; hip-hop’s lineage of transmission is present in the dancers’ breath, in their call-and-response phrasing, and in the generous space they give to individual style within a larger ensemble. From the foyer’s pre-show buzz to the final bow, Beausejour unfolds as a shared moment for our community, affirming the power of dance to make a place—right here at Théâtre Albert Camus—feel like a meeting point between the city’s heartbeat and the stage’s luminous focus. We look forward to raising the lights, opening the room, and letting the movement write its own story before your eyes.