Nearly fifty shows from France, Europe, and around the world are presented over three weeks in Lyon and throughout the region.
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00:00 The dance Biennale has just opened in Lyon with its traditional parade, which is finally
00:06 returning to the streets after the Covid years.
00:08 Nearly 4,000 dancers, musicians, costume designers, most of them amateurs, brought the city centre
00:15 of Lyon to rhythm, with the dialogue between arts and sports as a common thread.
00:21 A unifying event which captures all audiences.
00:27 "The parade is really a flagship project of what we call today cultural action, cultural
00:35 mediation.
00:36 It's really one year of work between professional choreographers and amateurs at the level of
00:41 dance but also music, costumes, floats really.
00:44 It's total art.
00:46 The city is transformed into dance and everyone dances with this idea that dance is everywhere
00:51 and dance is for everyone and for all."
01:02 The Biennale must really give visibility to all dances and the parade is a great marker
01:06 of this idea of the democratisation of dance.
01:11 All the dance groups assembled on Lyon's Place Belcourt.
01:14 Nearly 50 shows from France, Europe and around the world are presented over three weeks in
01:20 Lyon and throughout the region, almost half of which are new creations.
01:26 The Biennale also invests in industrial wastelands to create ephemeral, unusual and friendly
01:31 events.
01:32 Under the name Club Bingo, the Biennale offers a programme focused on the world of night.
01:39 DJ battles and numerous evenings joyfully influenced by the culture of voguing, celebrating
01:44 the margins and minorities and where all publics are welcome.
01:48 "We are all dancers and that's what we wanted to show.
01:52 But in Lyon there were a lot of collectives that organised parties in lots of alternative
01:57 places.
01:58 And it's these collectives that we invited here to set up dance floors that are liberating,
02:05 joyful, inclusive and as safe as possible."
02:08 The key idea of this Biennale is to leave no one behind.
02:15 A way of also breaking the sometimes elitist image that contemporary dance can have and
02:21 of breaking down the barriers between genres and styles.
02:32 The Lyon Dance Biennale aims to, above all, be a popular, festive and of course artistic
02:37 event.
02:38 A resolutely contemporary, urban and inclusive Biennale here in Lyon.
02:48 The Lyon Dance Biennale runs until September 30th.
02:51 "We're dancing, we're dancing!"
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