With an inimitable mime artistry and tours all around the world, German company Familie Flöz gives life, without a word, to a tale without any bittersweet words, where magic occurs. In a villa looking like a fortress, by the sea, a family is celebrating the daughter’s wedding. In the shadow, the pressure on the domestic servants is at its peak. Social labels are at play when, all of a sudden, a pregnant and homeless stranger shows up. The order of things becomes disrupted… Those naively human but sublime characters carry us away in their wake with humor, poetry and tenderness, with no distinction whatsoever.
Makom
Where do I come from and where am I going? Those questions are tackled by the 10 dancers of the Vertigo Dance Company, an Israeli company. In Makom, this troupe appears as torn between two ends, shaken by the magnetic forces of repulsion and attraction. Successively sensual and contemplative, eruptive and contained, their bodies swing through branches separating them, supporting them and end up, like a bridge, bringing them closer. In a world where every person is looking for a safe position, choreographer Noa Wertheim pits an artistic world of reconciliation and openness opposing walls and isolation.
Gershwin meets Williams
Smilla Wolff, a pianist and trumpetist from Esch, makes us experience again the tireless enthusiasm of George Gershwin, the prodigious American composer of the 1920s. The young musician, who was awarded the Music prize from Esch’s Rotary Club in 2024, will interpret his brilliant scores, notably those from the An American in Paris musical. In the second half of the evening, the Orchestre de l’Harmonie municipale d’Esch/Alzette will be performing other musical masterpieces with compositions by John Williams, accompanied by a projection.
50 years
The Mummenschanz show up… and so does the audience, everywhere in the world. The Swiss company is more than a name: it is an art form that has left a durable mark on the world of theater with unprecedented and unique shows. Filled with dreams, absurdity and tenderness, those acts give life to universes full of little stories and big creatures. Made of moss, clay, metal or toilet paper, those funny silhouettes perambulate silently, carried by virtuoso artists invisible to the naked eye. Surrealistic situations always end up getting out of hand, bringing about laughter and poetry.
Le Grand Bal
Euphoria, exhaustion and pleasure… An intensity of each moment – of each movement – is conveyed by The Great Ball. 8 dancers come to look for what society does not have to offer: quenching a desire to touch and to be touched, a joy that does not need words and the ecstatic feeling of letting go. Their emotions are easily identifiable and are called anger, desire and compassion. From traditional Occitan melodies to exhilarating electronic beats, choreographers Souhail Marchiche and Mehdi Meghari set an increasingly quick and contagious pace carrying away all this crowd into a mesmerizing collective trance.
Pizz’n’Zip
They look like twin sisters. The uniform, the ponytail, the panache. One plays the cello, the other plays the violin, two musicians aspire to play a proper classic concerto. But very quickly, a succession of catastrophes begins. The situation would be tenable if only those two did not have a gift for squabbling wonderfully! In this joyful chaos, discord progressively gives way to complicity, and confusion is replaced by harmony. A musical and clown show, Pizz’n’zip reminds us that music is a more beautiful adventure when two people share it, regardless of our differences.
P’tits brunch du théâtre : on sunday, after or before the performance, have brunch with your kids and take part in a family workshop.
Performance at 11:00 or 15:00
Brunch 12:00 (to book via : reservation.theatre@villeesch.lu)
Parent-child workshop 13:00-14:30
Tendre colère
Is a man a wolf to another man? Two brothers, Christian and François Ben Aïm envision their dancers as a pack with a contagious energy, like the heroes and heroines of a Homeric battlefield. 10 interpreters throw themselves onto the stage with all their might, giving in to a furious desire to live. Their arms and legs are powered by instinctive, absurd and ecstatic moves. Out of themselves, do those beings become marionettes, strangers to each other? Or does something as old as the world come back to the surface to carry them away and bring them closer, in some human and mending collective momentum?
Dans les jupes de ma mère
Ah, the first day of school! The long hours spent far from home, shyness when meeting classmates, and the reassuring creases of mummy’s dress. To narrate this unusual day, the costumes of our two actors-puppeteers unfold before our eyes, as if by magic. A shoe becomes a bathtub full of bubbles, an inside out jacket becomes a kitchen where you can have breakfast and an arm becomes a road you can drive away on. Funny and inventive, the story of this first day at school turns out to be extraordinary and reassuring for the whole family.
Groove Club
Welcome to Groove club. An in-between space a bit out of time where you can lose yourself with pleasure… From three different generations, 9 characters – actors, dancers and acrobats – drift between past and present, nostalgia and glee, on a dance floor looking like an old record player. In this bar, the mood is disco and the atmosphere is vaporous. Facing an uncertain future, the memories of “the old” rub shoulders with the ardor of an emancipated youth. To the music of Strauss, Stravinski, Bob Marley or Drake, that club is a spellbinding place. A long and gentle musical and choreographic journey that displays our frailties, our struggles and our hopes.
An introduction to the event will take place at 4.15 pm before the second show.
Poil de la bête
You know, hens and ducks have stage fright, sometimes. It’s their first time at the theater… Fortunately a faithful female sheepdog guides and gathers them together. Except now, instead of the traditional flock of sheep, a dashing and whirling ballet of feathered feet appear before our eyes. Artists-farmers, Juan and Diane join this crazy, funny and acrobatic round dance to explore the links that connect us to domestic animals. Set to the music of an improvisational pianist, their charming beasts delightful animals are the heroines of a hair-raising world that promises many twists… and lucky escapes!