Lucinda Childs

The Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon brings together two repetitive movement choreographers: Lucinda Childs, with Dance, an iconic work first performed in 1979, and Alessandro Sciarroni, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, who presents HØPE, a new work inspired by a dance found in cowboy culture. 

What should we do with the bodies of the dead? In Antigone, this question enabled Sophocles to illustrate the limits of political power in the face of the sacred. In his latest work, Alexander Zeldin sheds light upon the atomisation of pain and suffering that characterises the times we live in.

A mother and son. Throughout her life, she has done a host of different jobs in order to support the family. He has dedicated his life to theatre. Together, the stage becomes a tool for unfurling their different existences, caught up at the intersection of capitalism inherited violence.