Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon / Lucinda Childs & Trisha Brown

Dance • This 1979 choreography is considered to be one of the most important ones in the history of postmodern dance, a minimalist movement that emphasises the body’s intrinsic language. Performed by 17 dancers, this piece produces a euphoric passion for recurring patterns, with the dancers sliding, hopping and whirling time and time again. The Lyon Opera Ballet reworked the choreography, and in this performance the movements are enlarged by screening the original film directed by Sol LeWitt, thereby creating a hypnotic duplicate.

Set and Reset ⁄ Reset • “Set and Reset / Reset” is synonymous with a truly contemporary gesture. The original set design created by visual artist Robert Rauschenberg was reworked in 2005, when it was included in the repertoire of the Lyon Opera Ballet. Even if it abides by strict guidelines, the piece generates an expressive flow bordering improvisation. It is a postmodern dance manifesto—with original music by Laurie Anderson—modified by the Lyon Opera Ballet.


The Lyon Opera Ballet is a company created within the Lyon National Opera in France. Its repertoire currently comprises 117 pieces, half of which are its own creations. The list of choreographers who have worked in Lyon bears witness to the importance of the French dance pioneering generation (including names such as Mathilde Monnier and Jean-Claude Gallotta) and its followers (from Jérôme Bel to Christian Rizzo, from Alain Buffard to Rachid Ouramdane).