19 – 21 JUNE 2026
Les SUBS, LYON

Final event of SHIFT Shaping Harmony Innovating Forms and Thought, a cooperation project, funded by the Creative Europe programma of the European Commission, between Cie Omar Rajeh & Maqamat (France), Albania Dance Meeting (Albania) and Fondazione Fabbrica Europa

Building on the artistic vision of Dance People, the performance which premiered last August at the Edinburgh International Festival, Maqamat, SHIFT coordinator, expands the project into a wider, collective format: a three-day international festival in Lyon.
Dance People brings together artists, dance professionals, and citizens into a vibrant gathering that celebrates participatory movement, shared practice, and collective experience. Rooted in its territory, the festival actively engages the community alongside artistic interventions highlighting both international perspectives and the richness of the local scene.

As the closing event of the European project SHIFT, Dance People also becomes a laboratory for new ways of gathering: rethinking how festivals are hosted, how space is shared, and how dance can move beyond conventional stages. By revisiting works in adaptable, non-traditional venues and creating participatory formats that invite citizens into the creative act, the festival opens up a more direct, living relationship between artists, audiences, and the city.

PROGRAMME

19 JUNE

h 11:00 | Les SUBS
Culture & politics
A collective platform for reflection and dialogue

h 18:00 | Les SUBS
Shaping spaces, shaping us
Welcome Speech

h 18:15 | Les SUBS
60 seconds, 60 minutes
Public Intervention

h 19:30 | Les SUBS
Improvised Encounters #1
Erwan Keravec (musician), Ugo Tumino (chef), Cie Relevant (dancer), Marion Alzieu (choreographer)
Dance Experience

h 20:00 | Les SUBS
Dance People
Maqamat – Omar Rajeh & Mia Habis
Performance

h 23:00 | Le Sucre
Club Corps x La WAW! & La Cité Bouge!
Tine, Dj Reine Claude, Dj Lavanda, Mc Gorgeous & Dancers, Dee Diggs
Dance and Music Experience

20 JUNE

h 10:00 | Les SUBS
Breakfast Dialogues with Arkadi Zaides
Lecture

h 11:00 h – 13:00 | Les SUBS
Movewithus, Mohamed Bouriri
Workshop for Kids

h 11:00 – 14:00 | Les SUBS
KOMOCO / Sofia Nappi
Professional workshop
in partnership with CND Centre national de la danse

h 14:30 | Les SUBS
Quatre-Quarts, La Gentillesse
Prizmi
Performance

h 16:30 | Les SUBS
Prelude to Violence
Ghida Hachicho
Performance

h 17:30 | Les SUBS
Improvised Encounters #2
Harris Gkekas (choreographer), Charbel Haber (musician), Elise Bruyère & Romane Piffaut (dancers), Mathieu Bertrand (cartoonist)
Dance Experience

h 18:00 | Les SUBS
heartquake
Ekin Tunçeli
Performance

h 19:00 & h 21:00| Les SUBS
The Rite of Spring
Roger Bernat
Performance

h 20:00 | Les SUBS
Bless the Sound that saved a witch like me
Benjamin Kahn
Performance

21 JUNE

h 10:00 | Les SUBS
Breakfast Dialogues with Denis Plassard
Conversation

h 11:00 – 14:00 | Les SUBS
Benjamin Kahn
Professional workshop
in partnership with CND Centre national de la danse

h 16:00 | Les SUBS
La cité bouge!
Cie Relevant
Dance Experience
in partnership with CND Centre national de la danse

h 17:00 | Les SUBS
Pode Ser
Leïla Ka
Performance

h 17:30 | Les SUBS
Kms of Resistance
Mehdi Dahkan
Performance

h 18:00 | Les SUBS
Improvised Encounters #3
Yanka (rapper), Youssef Hbeisch & Ziad Ahmadie (musicians), Benjamin Capelier (chef), Nunzio Perricone (dancer)
Dance Experience

h 19:00 | Les SUBS
Soul(s) Power
Hamdi Dridi
Performance

h 20:00 | Les SUBS
Big Dance Jam
Dance Experience
in partnership with CND Centre national de la danse

h 21:00 | Les SUBS
La Fête de la Musique
Live music by Nader & Founé with Abdoulaye Traoré
DJ Set by Zeid Hamdan
Dance & music Experience

Full details for each event here
maqamat.org/dancepeople/lyon

photo (detail): Tommy Ga-Ken Wan