Melanie Florschütz und Michael Döhnert are famous for their ability to create exciting new possibilities with things, objects, music and light. Big Box is about a box on stage. A box? Or is it a giant package? Or a phone booth, an elevator, a workshop, a changing room? Endless possibilities that surprise and fascinate young audiences. When objects magically move, new worlds appear. This is object poetry that helps us interrogate and sharpen our gaze and makes the seemingly impossible possible.
Boxe Boxe Brasil
The boxing ring becomes a stage for dancers who take turns in fighting and reconciling – all to the live music of the Debussy Quartet. In each round the violins drive the dancers’ steps, from airy capoeira to rhythmic hip-hop. Breathtaking! Following on from the popular success of Boxe Boxe (performed to an audience of 130,000 spectators), Mourad Merzouki once again puts on his boxing gloves to create a universe in which poetry and humour, classic music and Brazilian dance all join together.
Zwäi
He is looking for the perfect, neat organization; she is longing for the lightness of altitude. In order to reach their goals, both need the help of the other. Conflicts are foreordained with this odd couple. Maliciously, tactically and lovingly, each of them meddles with the reality of the other. They wrangle, irritate and love. The resulting conflicts will be solved creatively and spectacularly. Jonas and Esther Slanzi have created a genre-crossing performance that amazes the audience with a combination of airiness, acrobatics, tricks and theatre.
Démodés
Three clowns wander, without a job and without shelter, through a world that no longer has a place for them. Being clowns, they manage to give even this bleak atmosphere a special humour. Our three anti-heroes show that clowns can still make us laugh today. With their tragi-comedy about the end of a time in which a clown could be sure of provoking the benign laughter of society, Leandre Ribera and the La Tal company commemorate the red noses and simultaneously revive them in a completely new form.
Go !
The (good) philosophy of the tatami. Two men are eyeing up, fighting each other and showing off in this athletic and artistic performance. Nobody gets hurt though. These fighting dancers respect each other and their warrior rituals reconnect with fundamental instincts such as openness and emancipation. Go ! combines humor, sensuality and explosiveness and articulates a common thread between dance and martial arts: the perfection and beauty of movement.
Concert de Nouvel An
To start the new year with a bang, Gast Waltzing connects two different worlds: on the one hand the classic orchestra Estro Armonico, and hip hop dancers and rappers on the other (EDSUN, Maya Maunet, Maz…). Luxembourgish composer Waltzing accepts this challenge and manages to fuse these music and performance styles and simultaneously defies stereotypes. How better to start the new year that with the message that music unites us all?
Le Jour se rêve
With this new show, Jean-Claude Gallotta pays tribute to his New York mentor Merce Cunningham. During three different segments, which are interspersed by solos of the choreographer himself, ten dancers present a succession of duos and ensemble work to the sound explorations of Rodolphe Burger, long-term guitarist of Alain Bashung. The performance celebrates the urge to live. This is dancing at its roots: fiery, free and joyful.
La mer
The Harmonie Municipale of Esch/Alzette propose a concert around maritime adventures. We navigate through wonderful compositions by Georges Sadeler, Stephan Jaeggi, Alexander Reuber or José Alberto Pina, followed by Klaus Badelt and Hans Zimmer’s contemporary film music for the Pirates of the Caribbean. The concert is completed by La Mer by Charles Trenet interpreted by Yves Schmartz.
Programme :
First part
– Georges Sadeler : Dolomiti
– Stephan Jaeggi : Titanic
– Alexander Reuber : Atlantis
Second part
– José Alberto Pina : The Ghost Ship
– Charles Trenet/Albert Lasry : La Mer
Soliste : Yves Schmartz, chant
– Klaus Badelt/Hans Zimmer, arr. Guido Rennert : Pirates of the Caribbean
Ding Dong, Toktoktok!
Bartok and Pipp have only one wish: to finally start their fitness workout. . But they keep getting interrupted by the weird noises coming from the other side of the neighbouring wall. They listen carefully. The weird noises are music, captivating music! Slowly they both begin to move to this freshly discovered music. One by one the neighbouring walls collapse, and all begin to dance exuberantly to the wonderful music of … Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Aerobics and classical music blend into a dashing slapstick.
les paroles impossibles
Yoann Bourgeois is a truly unparalleled acrobat. He played himself into the audience’s hearts with Scala and his attempt to stretch the limits of gravity. He also fascinates as a juggler and choreographer. With les paroles impossibles, he returns to the stage with a new programme and new tricks, mesmerizing the audience as a breath-taking trapezist, a flying fakir, a magic dervish, a bird-like singer and much more besides. He is a master of his genre with countless tricks up his sleeve who knows how to captivate his spectators.