Cabaret Flamenco - Espace Culturel Du Vieux Lyon

Espace culturel du Vieux Lyon welcomes Cabaret Flamenco

At Espace culturel du Vieux Lyon, we are thrilled to open our doors to Cabaret Flamenco, a living, breathing encounter with cante, toque, and baile shaped for an intimate room and a city that cherishes heritage. Our stage was designed for proximity: the grain of the guitar strings, the grit and velvet of the voice, and the dazzling percussive footwork travel cleanly through our warm acoustics, so you feel each jaleo, each palmas pattern, and the sudden hush before a burst of duende. In the cobblestoned heart of Vieux Lyon, the show’s cabaret spirit thrives; the audience sits close enough to read the dancers’ eyes, to sense the conversation between compás and silence. We present Cabaret Flamenco as part of our commitment to performances that honor tradition while embracing the present, welcoming a company that understands how to move from the deep well of soleá to the luminous uplift of alegrías and the playful spark of bulería without losing the raw immediacy that makes flamenco unforgettable.

Artistic pulse, refreshed for Lyon

This season, the ensemble behind Cabaret Flamenco arrives with renewed momentum, bringing fresh dramaturgy and newly crafted sequences that speak to today’s flamenco while remaining rooted in the classic palos. You will hear the earthy heartbeat of tangos, the severe beauty of seguiriyas, and the narrative tension of tientos threading through modern arrangements for guitar, cajón, and palmas. The program is devised to breathe—solos opening into duets, trios blooming into ensemble passages—so that each section responds to the energy in the room. Our technical team complements this fluidity with responsive lighting and a wooden floor tuned to translate the dancer’s taconeo into a clear, musical voice. The show’s format—part recital, part encounter—encourages spontaneity: calls and responses ripple from singer to guitarist to dancer, and sometimes back to the audience, whose claps become part of the score. As a venue, we treasure this dialogue. It allows our hall to become more than a backdrop; it becomes the fifth performer, amplifying the textures of the guitar, the air in a held note, the storm and bloom of footwork, and the quiet that follows.

For audiences joining us in Vieux Lyon, Cabaret Flamenco is both a celebration and an invitation. It is a celebration of lineage, where gestures carry memories and songs carry stories, and it is an invitation to witness how those stories keep evolving—through new choreographic ideas, unexpected rhythmic turns, and encounters between artists who treat tradition as a companion rather than a constraint. Our team shapes the experience from arrival to final ovation: welcoming you into a room scaled for human connection, balancing sound so that the whisper of fingers on strings can sit alongside the thunder of a llamada, and curating sightlines that keep every seat close to the action. The historic quarter outside our doors sets the mood—arched passageways, stone, and shadow—and inside, the stage holds its own microcosm of Andalusian color: shawls, skirts, black and flame, and the pulse of compás binding them together. Whether this is your first flamenco night or your fiftieth, we invite you to let the performance unfold at its pace—slow-burn tension, sudden release, laughter in the palmas, and the kind of hush that tells you something true has just crossed the footlights. In Cabaret Flamenco at Espace culturel du Vieux Lyon, that truth arrives in many forms, and every one of them is alive in the present tense.