Celtic Legends - Tournée 2026

Celtic Legends — Tournée 2026 at Radiant-Bellevue

At Radiant-Bellevue, we are delighted to welcome Celtic Legends as part of the much-anticipated Tournée 2026, bringing the pulse of Irish dance and live music to our stage. From our perspective as a venue, this is a celebration tailor-made for our hall: a full-scale production where precision footwork, driving rhythms, and lyrical melodies meet acoustics and sightlines designed to carry every nuance to every seat. Expect the signature percussive energy of the troupe, propelled by a live band steeped in traditional instruments—fiddle, flute, bodhrán, guitar, and the haunting timbre of uilleann pipes—shaping an evening that moves seamlessly from whirlwind reels to contemplative airs. Our technical team is preparing a warm, immersive lighting palette and crisp sound image to honor the show’s sweeping dynamic range, ensuring that each ensemble number, duet, and solo moment unfolds with clarity and theatrical impact. Celtic Legends arrives to our stage with renewed vigor for 2026, a tour edition that celebrates the roots of Irish dance while embracing the momentum of a contemporary touring spectacle.

Artistic momentum, refreshed staging, and a living tradition

The current artistic momentum surrounding Celtic Legends is palpable: Tournée 2026 presents a refreshed staging that highlights narrative through movement, sculpting tableaux inspired by timeless landscapes and community gatherings where music and dance are inseparable. Our conversations with the production have emphasized a keen focus on musicianship—extended instrumental passages that let the band breathe and converse onstage—while dancers thread intricate rhythms into the score like counterpoint. This edition places an emphasis on fluid transitions and ensemble architecture, so that the line of dancers becomes a living chorus—sometimes thunderous, sometimes feather-light—responsive to every shift in tempo and color. The creative team has honed choreography that respects tradition’s codified steps while introducing patterns and spatial designs that feel vividly of the moment, appealing to longtime admirers and first-time audiences alike. As the tour advances through major European stages before arriving here, Celtic Legends carries with it a renewed connection to its origins: craft-forward costuming, live, untracked music, and the irresistible immediacy of bodies, breath, and sound sharing the same space with the audience.

Radiant-Bellevue is shaping the audience experience around this live encounter, from the first note that rises in the dark to the final ensemble flourish. Our stage’s natural resonance favors both the snap of hard shoes and the warmth of acoustic timbres, while the hall’s contours provide excellent visibility for detailed choreography; you will read the dancers’ lines, formations, and rhythmic conversations with the band from every level. We have calibrated the production’s lighting to carve depth and atmosphere—storm-lit coasts, hearth-lit gatherings, emerald glades suggested by texture and hue—without ever sacrificing the crisp legibility of the steps. The evening is conceived as a full-length journey: propulsive ensemble numbers that set hearts racing, followed by intimate interludes where a solo fiddle or pipes line seems to suspend time, then a surge back into collective celebration. Whether you join us as a family, with friends, or as a devoted follower of Celtic dance, our teams are ready to guide you from arrival to applause. At Radiant-Bellevue, we are proud to host Celtic Legends on Tournée 2026, inviting our Lyon area audiences into a shared event that lives most vividly in the present tense—dancers and musicians offering everything, and a room full of people answering back with joy.