Dear audience, you’re attending the Awards ceremony, no more and no less, compared to which the Palms, Césars, Lions, Ours and Oscars look like cheap trophies. Virtuoso circus performers, the nine members of the Back Pocket company serve as masters of ceremony, prizewinners and magnificent losers in this show evoking a cinema gala. Except that the glitz soon gives way to manifest jealousies, and the glamorous smiles are supplanted by the most rewarding low blows. The awards ceremony goes out of control, the humour fizzes like champagne, and the red carpet then becomes the stage for high-flying acrobatic prowess!
Concert de Jackie Moontan
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En marge de la pièce Success Story, Alain Schumann – comédien à l’affiche – troque son costume de scène pour celui de Jackie Moontan, son double lunaire à la fois crooner excentrique, amoureux de funk, de disco et d’histoires absurdes.
Autoproclamé « your mother’s favorite singer », Jackie Moontan livre des performances hybrides, entre concert, théâtre et délire pop. Inspiré par James Brown, Bowie ou Parliament Funkadelic, son univers mêle chansons décalées, visuels kitsch et personnages fantaisistes – de l’amoureux d’un hippopotame à l’adepte du speed dating vintage.
HMEsch goes JAZZ
When jazz is on, the Harmonie Municipale Esch-sur-Alzette doesn’t go away. It stays and plays wholeheartedly. Starting with a repertoire of well-known references such as Leonard Bernstein, Artie Shaw and Dmitri Shostakovich, the mood then shifts to a true club atmosphere. Ernie Hammes’s trumpet will unleash the Orchestra in a flourish combining: a world premiere, classics from great big bands of yesterday and today, and effervescent solo performances. An evening to whip artists, audiences and jazz into a frenzy.
Les nouvelles hallucinations de Lucas Cranach l’Ancien
Patrick Bonté and Nicole Mossoux achieved their European renown with a memorable show around the prominent Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach – a show that the two Belgian artists are reinventing today, 35 years later. In this work of cumulative illusions, dancers emerge from behind frames, like characters touched by a grace as strange as it is sensual. Whether they’re called Adam, Eve, Judith or Lucretia, these resurrected figures afford us the guilty pleasure of joining with them, five centuries later, in transgressing the rules and eating the forbidden fruit.
An introduction to the show by the artistic team will take place on the 26/03 at 7.15pm (FR).
Fair Play
As unstoppable as Usain Bolt in the 100 metres, two men who are complete opposites, but driven by the same desire to show off their muscles and reach Olympic heights, will have the audience shaking with laughter. On the programme: warm-up, boxing, swimming and a range of other sports performed according to the rules … of the clowning art! Patrice Thibaud and Philippe Leygnac borrow from the best of Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy to combine music, mime and running gags. Between rivalry and hits below the belt, these two sporty cocks of the walk offer a show whose audacity, eccentricity and comedy know no boundaries.
MAGNIFIQUES
From baroque to hyper-contemporary, from classical to breakdance, MAGNIFIQUES defies all codes and techniques, in a whirlwind of prodigious dances. J.S. Bach’s powerful Magnificat in D major here combines perfectly with the electro beats of Angelos Liaros-Copola. All that counts is the joy, free and irrepressible, of dancing. And it suffices for the nine dancers to show the full extent of their talent. In this seemingly inexhaustible and irrepressible profusion of energy, they’d even have the urge to sing. And it’s magnificent.
An introduction to the show by the artistic team will take place at 7.15pm (FR).
Le p’tit brunch du théâtre
The Escher Theater invites you to our “p’tits brunchs”! Before or after a show for young audiences at the Ariston, our team welcomes you and your little ones to enjoy a family-friendly brunch followed by a creative workshop.
Show at 11:00 or 15:00 AM – Frederick
Brunch at 12:00 PM
Workshop 1:00–2:30 PM
To register, please send an email to: reservation.theatre@villeesch.lu
In your message, let us know:
– the number of participants (adults and children)
– the age(s) of the child(ren)
– whether you would also like to attend the workshop
Please note: You must have booked tickets for the show in order to reserve a spot for the brunch.
Picture © Patrick Galbats
Moya
Aerial straps, trapeze, Cyr wheel, juggling and somersaults: ten artists from South Africa let loose in a display of liberating, acrobatic and colourful élan. Moya celebrates the footwork of two dances full of life and hope, performed in protest against apartheid: gumboot, inherited from the slaves who beat their rubber boots in the mines, and pantsula, a kind of house dance born in the black ghettos of Johannesburg. On a world tour, the Zip Zap company puts its boots back on and twirls, with an insane energy, between contemporary circus and South African melting pot.
Concert de Nouvel An
And here we go again. Gast Waltzing opens the year with a concert in which styles intersect and reinvent themselves. The conductor will have the Estro Armonico Luxembourg Chamber orchestra on his right, and, on his left, Ivorian singer Dobet Gnahoré and her musicians. With her powerful voice and impressive stage presence, this Grammy winner draws her inspiration from the creative energy of Abidjan, borrowing from Manding melodies, Zairean rumba, Ivorian ziglibiti and Cameroonian bikutsi. A concert with modern and traditional pan-African sounds, which promises a great moment of sharing.
Le p’tit brunch du théâtre
The Escher Theater invites you to our “p’tits brunchs”! Before or after a show for young audiences at the Ariston, our team welcomes you and your little ones to enjoy a family-friendly brunch followed by a creative workshop.
Show at 11:00 AM – La Louve
Brunch at 12:00 PM
Workshop 1:00–2:30 PM
To register, please send an email to: reservation.theatre@villeesch.lu
In your message, let us know:
– the number of participants (adults and children)
– the age(s) of the child(ren)
– whether you would also like to attend the workshop
Please note: You must have booked tickets for the show in order to reserve a spot for the brunch.