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Ballet de l’Opera de Lyon

The dancers, in practice that gives them the variety of styles offered are in the company, trained in different techniques. For over twenty years she has built up an extensive repertoire (93 rooms, including 48 world premieres), by using choreographers oriented language, allowing it to evolve, inventing its environment and its staging: the "post -modern "American (Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Bill T. Jones, Ralph Lemon, Susan Marshall and Stephen Petronio), the writers of the movement (Kylián, Mats Ek, William Forsythe, Nacho Duato, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Sasha Waltz) and explorers of new territory, combining gestures and images (Decouflé, Mathilde Monnier, the "Next Wave" American or Australian), as well as representatives of the "young French dance (Jerome Bel, Alain Buffard, Boris Charmatz, Rachid Ouramdane, Christian Rizzo) and the singular Catherine Diverrès.
One step to the future, including other trends open theatricality, such as proofreading stripping of some works of reference (for Cinderella by Maguy Marin, Romeo and Juliet by Angelin Preljocaj and The Nutcracker by Dominique Boivin).
We can say that currently the Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon reflects the dance movement in the world.