Cabaret Flamenco - Espace Culturel Du Vieux Lyon

Cabaret Flamenco at Espace culturel du Vieux Lyon

From the heart of the Old Town, we at Espace culturel du Vieux Lyon are delighted to welcome Cabaret Flamenco, an intimate and fiercely expressive evening where dance, guitar, voice, and percussive pulse converge a breath away from the audience. Our historic room, with its warm wood and stone accents, heightens the natural resonance of cante and the crisp snap of palmas, allowing every heel strike and whisper of the guitar’s tremolo to carry. In this edition of Cabaret Flamenco, the artists lean into vivid contrasts: the gravity of cante jondo and the joy of bulerías, the shimmering light of alegrías and the meditative depth of soleá. We program the night to unfold like a conversation, letting each number bloom from attentive silence into exhilarating duende. As a venue known for chamber-scale performance, we shape the stage and sightlines so you can read the dancers’ breath and the guitarist’s right hand as clearly as you feel the rhythm in your chest.

A living tradition, renewed on our stage

Our curatorial approach with Cabaret Flamenco is to honor tradition while giving the artists room to explore new textures and dynamics. This season’s appearance brings fresh arrangements for guitar and cajón, richer harmonic color in falsetas, and choreographic moments that play with space, shadow, and stillness before erupting into cascades of zapateado. You will sense how the ensemble builds each palo from a shared compás: palmas set the grid, the cantaor shapes the arc with melismatic lines, the bailaora or bailaor carves the air, and the guitar binds it all with rasgueado and lyrical passages. Our technical team has tuned the room’s lighting and acoustics to reveal those subtleties—soft amber hues for more introspective forms, brighter cuts for festive finales—while preserving the raw, acoustic power of the art. Because the proximity in our venue fosters true call-and-response, moments of jaleo emerge organically, turning the audience into collaborators who propel the performance forward.

Cabaret Flamenco at Espace culturel du Vieux Lyon also reflects the artists’ current momentum beyond our stage: an ongoing commitment to creation, collaboration, and mentorship that keeps the tradition thriving. Recent work by the ensemble has deepened the dialogue between contemporary staging and time-honored structures, refining the balance of improvisation and composition so every piece feels alive in the moment. You will hear how the guitarists thread modern voicings through classic cadences; you will see how the dancers layer silence and attack to heighten narrative tension; and you will feel how the singers carry centuries of memory in a single sustained note. For us as hosts, the joy is in framing these elements so audiences—devotees and first-timers alike—can enter the world of compás, understand the stakes of a soleá, and celebrate the communal lift of a bulería. Nestled in Vieux Lyon’s storied streets, our venue offers a setting worthy of this living art: close, resonant, and charged with anticipation, night after night.