Standing concerts again prohibited from this Monday, January 3, 2022. This is the new restriction imposed on theaters due to the acceleration of Covid-19 cases, government announcement. A measure that once again has an impact on Steam, the contemporary music room in Dijon. “We expect it a bit and at the same time it’s a new blow”, says Yann Rivoal, “because that means that we will still have to stop for all or part, cancel or postpone concerts.”

See on a case-by-case basis

A new restriction which imposes on the Dijon room of goodbye all his organization, “we will have to do it on a case-by-case basis, for each concert and contact the artists’ tour team”, specifies the director of Steam. “With certainties already, as with the concert by Benjamin Biolay scheduled for January, a concert already postponed and which is full so we cannot transform the standing room into a seat, so there is no other solution than to ‘cancel or find a new date. “

In any case, it was not possible for the director of La Vapeur to offer seated concerts., “we did it in the fall of 2020 because we had no other solutions and on proposals that were more or less suitable but this time the majority of concerts will have to be canceled or postponed . “

A situation that the manager of the Dijon room knows is complicated, “It’s going to be even more difficult to find the public when it was already complicated since the resumption this fall.” Same question for the activity of the bar in the Dijon room, “If we have to welcome the public for a concert, we are not able to make everyone sit down at the bar, so that almost always means closing the bar as well. It is the whole experience of the concert that is the stop I do not see how we will be able to continue under these conditions. “