Meryem Benoua, Reflet - Tournée

Welcoming Meryem Benoua with Reflet - Tournée to Lyon

We are delighted to open our Lyon stage to Meryem Benoua for Reflet, presented as part of Reflet - Tournée. From our vantage point as hosts, what excites us most about this date is the intimate connection the artist forges between performer and audience. Reflet is conceived as a living encounter: a carefully paced evening shaped by voice, presence, and a visual language that treats light, shadow, and silence as narrative partners. Our team has prepared a setting that lets nuances breathe—precise sound, thoughtful lighting, and a room configured to hold the tension and tenderness that her work demands. Because the show hinges on immediacy and responsiveness, the Lyon stop is not just another tour date; it is a moment where the city’s energy meets the artist’s attentive storytelling. Expect a focus on detail: entrances and exits timed with the pulse of the room, dynamic shifts between introspection and momentum, and a scenography designed to cradle the audience’s gaze while letting Meryem Benoua’s craft stand unapologetically at the center.

The artist’s current momentum

Across the current season, Meryem Benoua has been refining a vocabulary that blends narrative clarity with sensorial finesse, and Reflet is the prism through which these elements converge. For this tour, she has deepened the piece with new textures—subtle musical cues, crafted transitions, and a dramaturgy that privileges authenticity over artifice. Our conversations with the touring team have underlined her meticulous process: she reworks timing according to each hall’s acoustics, recalibrates light states for local sightlines, and approaches every show as a one-night-only composition. This living approach gives audiences a sense of event, not repetition. Importantly, the artist’s present-day activity is centered on sharing work in direct contact with the public, cultivating a dialogue that continues after the curtain call. While Reflet anchors her itinerary, she also nurtures the broader ecosystem around the piece—open rehearsals when conditions allow, thoughtful exchanges with audiences, and a clear wish to bring a widely accessible, high-quality experience to every stop. It is this combination of craft and generosity that makes her tour feel urgent and contemporary.

What should Lyon expect from the evening itself? A performance that moves with precision and heart. Reflet invites spectators into a set of mirrored encounters—moments where personal memory and collective experience echo each other—without resorting to spectacle for its own sake. The pacing is deliberate: a first part that draws the room into quiet focus, a middle section where the piece stretches into bolder gestures, and a closing passage that lingers long after the final blackout. We have coordinated closely with the production to support delicate dynamic shifts—whispers that carry to the last row, crescendos that remain crisp rather than overwhelming. Seating has been planned to enhance sightlines and proximity, so that the performer’s micro-expressions and inflections register clearly throughout the hall. If you are joining us in Lyon, come ready for an encounter that privileges presence: layers of voice and movement interweave with a visual palette that amplifies the central theme of reflection. Reflet - Tournée arrives here as an evolving, generous work—one that meets our city with open eyes and invites every spectator to look back with them.