This season, House by Sharon Eyal enters the repertoire of the Lyon Opera Ballet. The piece is divided into several parts, like the different rooms of a house that the performers fully inhabit. It portrays a world, or a home, in crisis, through a series of group and solo sequences that echo one another, collide, and merge.
Set to music by Ori Lichtik, a DJ rooted in the techno scene, the rhythms create a nocturnal, party-like atmosphere, brushing up against classical ballet and contemporary tones. In this ode to dance in all its forms, Sharon Eyal crafts a movement language that is both sensual and demanding. Beyond its virtuosic and clinical precision, it leaves space for deep emotional resonance.
The bodies — strange, hybrid creatures, part-human, part-robot — ripple and unfold in a continuous stream of gestures, with a unity that can be shattered in an instant by a perpetual play of off-balance motions. A performance that pulses with energy, allowing audiences to see the Lyon Opera Ballet as never before: hypnotic.