The Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon brings together two outstanding artists of today’s dance scene, Sharon Eyal and Mats Ek, in a programme featuring two compelling works.

Over the years, the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon has earned a reputation as one of Europe’s most adventurous companies, championing contemporary choreographic voices while maintaining strong ties to both the classical and neoclassical traditions. Its dancers are renowned for their versatility, moving with equal ease between highly contrasting artistic worlds. Returning to Paris as part of the TranscenDanses season, the company presents two works that fully reflect this distinctive profile.

With House, Sharon Eyal blurs the boundaries between ballet and club culture in what amounts to a true celebration of dance itself, set to a techno-infused soundscape by DJ Ori Lichtik. The dancers inhabit a nocturnal world of pulse and celebration, animated by a movement vocabulary that is at once sensual, meticulously crafted and hypnotic, while never losing sight of emotional expression.

One of the most influential choreographers of recent decades, Mats Ek has reshaped the language of ballet through a choreographic voice that is unmistakably his own. In his interpretation of The Rite of Spring, transmitted to the dancers of the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon in 2026, he reconnects with the primal energy, powerful physicality and sensual urgency embedded in Stravinsky’s score. The result is a deeply personal reading of this twentieth-century landmark, imbued with both strength and poetry.

From Sharon Eyal’s hypnotic collective rituals to Mats Ek’s elemental vision, the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon offers an encounter with two artistic worlds whose singularity has left a lasting mark on contemporary dance.

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