Kaléïdoscope - Käfig - Mourad Merzouki - Le Radiant - Caluire

Kaleidoscope by Käfig at Radiant-Bellevue

At Radiant-Bellevue, we welcome Kaleidoscope by Käfig with the anticipation that only a house built for movement, light, and live gathering can feel. Our stage is designed to amplify the clarity, speed, and musicality that define Mourad Merzouki’s choreography, and this new creation promises to bloom across our full technical palette—rich color, crisp contours, and a kinetic flow that carries from the front row to the upper tiers. We curate programs that challenge and unite audiences, and Kaleidoscope aligns perfectly with that mission: a dance experience rooted in hip-hop’s collective energy yet sculpted with contemporary finesse. Expect intricate group patterns that open and close like facets, sudden shifts of scale from intimate duos to sweeping ensembles, and a visual language that plays with symmetry, reflection, and surprise. The architecture of our auditorium will let spectators read both the design and the human pulse of the piece: the breath of the dancers, the snap of rhythm, the delicate suspension before a cascade of motion. We have prepared a setting where detail and drive co-exist—so that every entrance, every turning figure, and every burst of color lands with precision.

Mourad Merzouki and the momentum of Compagnie Käfig

Mourad Merzouki’s artistic journey has long connected street technique to theatrical imagination, and his ongoing season shows that momentum at full force. While Kaleidoscope takes center stage on our calendar, the company continues to traverse international circuits with hallmark creations that broaden hip-hop’s expressive range. Works such as Pixel—renowned for its interplay of dance and digital illusion—remain touchstones for audiences discovering Käfig for the first time. Recent seasons have seen the breadth of his palette deepen with pieces like Zéphyr and Folia, each expanding on his taste for contrast: the elegance of classical textures meeting percussive footwork, or the wind-swept fluidity of bodies weighed against sharply rhythmic structures. As a longstanding figure closely linked to the Lyon region’s dance ecosystem, Merzouki brings not just a repertoire but a cultural conversation—about movement as a social fabric, about the virtuosity that emerges when forms mingle, and about how a stage can become a living map of influences. For us at Radiant-Bellevue, presenting his work means connecting local audiences to a global creative dialogue; it is a chance to witness an artist whose craft keeps evolving without abandoning the immediacy and generosity that first drew crowds to his pieces.

Kaleidoscope arrives as an ensemble work that revels in transformation, and we have shaped our stage environment to mirror its prismatic core. Expect a score that moves from pulse to resonance—beats that drive unison phrases, strings or airy timbres that give breath to suspended images—so each section feels like a newly turned facet. Our lighting rig will carve crisp silhouettes, then flood the scene with saturated color to shift the mood in an instant, while the sound design has been tuned to preserve clarity in rapid exchanges and to lift quieter details into audibility. The dancers’ trajectories will exploit the depth of Radiant-Bellevue’s stage: diagonals that slice space, circular patterns that seem to vortex and release, and counterpoint lines that reveal the group’s geometry from every seat. True to Käfig’s ethos, the choreography pairs athletic precision with playful invention—floorwork that threads into off-balance turns, canon structures that ripple through the cast, and brief flashes of theatricality that invite a smile before the next surge of rhythm. We expect families, students of dance, and curious newcomers to find their way into the piece—whether through the sheer virtuosity on display or through the transparent joy of performing that Merzouki reliably cultivates. Kaleidoscope, in our house, becomes not just a sequence of scenes but a shared act of seeing: a constantly shifting picture that, like its title suggests, recomposes itself with every gaze.