From the owner: La Maison de la Danse présente chaque saison un programme audacieux et varié, qui laisse une place…read moreimportante aux chorégraphes majeurs du XXe siècle comme aux jeunes créateurs contemporains. Ses missions : s'ouvrir à la danse sous toutes ses formes et toutes ses techniques, faire cohabiter création et répertoire, développer l'intérêt des enfants et adolescents, le public de demain, en organisant des matinées jeune public. Outre sa salle principale de 1 100 places et son studio de 92 places, le lieu accueille également un vidéo-bar-restaurant, une vidéothèque numérique, une salle vidéo de 45 places et organise tout au long de l'année des rendez-vous autour des spectacles.

The institut Lumiere is one of the best art cinema institutions in the world…read more They have a fine museum and a set of absolutely amazing film series. The film series include both famous classics, and arthouse rarities that it would be nearly impossible for you to see anywhere else. * * * But I am not going to review this incredible museum or their incredible set of theatres. I am going to review the cafe - because this is Yelp. Yelp covers a lot of things - but it is mostly about food and restaurants. The cafe is one of the classiest cafes in Lyon. The drinks are standard. The food is standard. That is not why you are here. You are here because the Cafe at the Institut Lumiere is fantastically beautiful. You are also here because the crowd is incredibly cool. The inside room of the Cafe is pleasant enough. The outside terrace is in a courtyard of a side building in the former Lumiere factories. These date from the late nineteenth century. The buildings have been refurbished and now have the look and feel of a nineteenth century French country house. The courtyard has fine old trees. Egresses from the courtyard lead to the street, the indoor seating of the cafe, and to the Institut's first rate cinema bookstore. The crowd consists of cinemaphiles who work in the Institut itself, film students using the bookstore, and the movie lovers who come to see the screenings. It is an arty crowd - even by French standards. This is the table where you want to order your coffee or your wine, pull out the scholarly or artistic text you are reading, or pull out your computer if you are working on a screenplay, and advance the cause of deep thinking and great art. If you and a friend want to disagree whether or not Denys de la Patelliere was derivative, this is the perfect place to have that conversation. The courtyard is steeped in years of deep artistic thought and cinematic ambition. It is as beautiful as the films that the patrons have seen And also as beautiful as the films that the patrons want to make. * * * So channel your inner Andre Bazin and have a coffee, a wine or a plate of charcuterie. You may not be the next Jean-Luc Godard. You may not be as photogenic as Jean-Paul Belmondo. But you are certainly as photogenic as Fernandel. Anyone can be a film critic for a day.

Visited this as I had the city card and went on my third day. I wouldn't make it a priority but…read moreworth a visit. You won't spend too much time here. Headed to Halle de Paul Bocuse afterwards.