Cabaret Flamenco - Espace Culturel Du Vieux Lyon

Cabaret Flamenco at Espace culturel du Vieux Lyon

We are delighted to welcome Cabaret Flamenco to Espace culturel du Vieux Lyon, where the stone walls and intimate dimensions of our Old Town venue heighten the crackle of live cante, the surge of guitarra, and the thunder of baile. Our stage has been prepared as a true tablao: a resonant wooden floor to carry taconeo, warm, low-angled lighting to sculpt silhouettes, and seating close enough for audiences to feel palmas in their chest. Cabaret Flamenco is conceived as a living encounter with duende—immediate, risky, and spirited—so every evening unfolds with its own personality: a whisper of soleá yielding to the laughter of bulerías, the bright tide of alegrías giving way to the gravity of seguiriyas. From our vantage as host, the pleasure is in facilitating that conversation between artists and audience, letting compás guide the night while Vieux Lyon’s historic quiet outside makes the music bloom inside.

Artistic momentum, up close and alive

This season, the company behind Cabaret Flamenco continues to refine a format that blurs the border between traditional tablao intimacy and stagecraft. The set draws on palos that showcase both lyrical restraint and percussive fire: tientos–tangos simmering into groove-heavy tangos, cantiñas bright with Cádiz salt air, and a late-night burst of bulerías where llamadas invite daring footwork and spirited jaleos. You will hear the guitar move from crystalline falsetas to bold rasgueado, while the singer’s melismas carve emotional space for the dancer to answer with turns, desplantes, and silence as expressive as sound. Our room’s close quarters reveal the microdrama of flamenco—the quick glance to cue an escobilla, the tightening of palmas to tilt the tempo, the shared breath before a remate lands—so that each choice feels newly minted. Though the tradition anchors the evening, the artists’ current explorations embrace contemporary phrasing in choreography and subtle reharmonizations in the guitar, giving classic forms a fresh profile without losing their lineage.

As a venue dedicated to craft and proximity, Espace culturel du Vieux Lyon is built to honor this kind of performance. We balance clarity and warmth in the acoustics so heelwork speaks with detail and vocals bloom naturally; the lighting follows the artists rather than boxing them in, allowing the show’s improvisational heart to lead the design. Cabaret Flamenco thrives on that freedom. One night may open with the elegant buoyancy of alegrías; another might dwell in the austere beauty of siguiriyas before releasing into fiesta. What remains constant is the electricity between performers and public: the compás carried in hands, the hush before a letra, and the gust of applause that meets a decisive cierre. Whether you are steeped in the art or discovering it for the first time, our team has shaped an experience that reveals how flamenco lives—in the crack of a heel, in a chorus of palmas, in the space where tradition and invention meet—right here in the heart of Vieux Lyon.