Cabaret Flamenco - Espace Culturel Du Vieux Lyon

Cabaret Flamenco at Espace culturel du Vieux Lyon

At Espace culturel du Vieux Lyon, we are delighted to welcome Cabaret Flamenco to our stage, an evening designed for the intimate scale and historic atmosphere of our neighborhood. From the first clap of palmas to the last echo of heelwork, this performance brings the living pulse of Andalusian tradition into the heart of Vieux Lyon. Our venue thrives on encounters that feel close, vibrant, and human—qualities that Cabaret Flamenco embodies through the interplay of baile, cante, and toque. This season, the ensemble continues to refine a performance language rooted in classic palos such as bulerías, soleá, alegrías, and tangos, while shaping new tableaux that highlight the relationships between dancer and guitarist, singer and cajón, silence and explosion. As a house that champions craft and presence, we are proud to host a format where the artistry unfolds at arm’s length: the rustle of a bata de cola, the arc of a mantón, the sudden hush before a blazing desplante. In our space, each detail becomes part of a shared conversation between stage and audience.

What awaits you on our stage

Cabaret Flamenco arrives with an ensemble approach that favors immediacy and risk—the kind of storytelling that happens through compás and breath rather than sets or spectacle. On any given night, you can expect a succession of numbers that flow like chapters: a soleá that deepens through cante jondo; a tangos with the loose, urban swagger of cadenced palmas; seguiriya intensity that tightens and releases; alegrías that shimmer with light and Cádiz sway. Our technical team shapes the room in warm, close lighting to amplify the graphic geometry of footwork and the guitar’s wooden bloom; microphones are placed to preserve the grain of the voice, the rustle of skirts, and the precise articulation of taconeo. For this engagement, the program emphasizes contrast—moments of hushed duende that erupt into the communal joy of a bulerías fin de fiesta—while also spotlighting ensemble dialogue: the guitarist’s falsetas answered by a dancer’s heel phrase, the cajón dovetailing with palmas to create a breathing engine beneath the melody. Espace culturel du Vieux Lyon is built for this scale, and our staff will be on hand throughout the evening to ensure the experience remains comfortable, focused, and immersive.

Beyond the night itself, we are attentive to the artistic journey that brings Cabaret Flamenco to our doors. The company’s current season foregrounds craftsmanship and spontaneity in equal measure, with newly polished arrangements for guitar and voice complementing fresh choreographic passages—sleek alegrías patterns that bloom into heelwork cascades, and intimate soleá por bulería dialogues shaped around dynamic silence. While the cast may rotate to reflect the living nature of this tradition, the ethos remains constant: fearless musicianship, storytelling bodies, and a shared responsibility for the compás. For audiences in Vieux Lyon, this is an ideal opportunity to encounter flamenco not as museum piece but as present-tense art, ready to breathe differently in each room it visits. We have calibrated our seating and stage configuration to shelter that heartbeat—keeping you near enough to feel the rumble of the floorboard, yet with sightlines that reveal the architecture of each paso. As guardians of an intimate space, we invite you to step into the circle, listen for the first heel strike, and let the night carry you from candlelit hush to jubilant release.