The gates close and ten museum attendants are locked in the art exhibition for the night. But that’s not all: the shadows of Goya’s bleak paintings, which they watch over during the day, swallow them up. Reality blurs, and everything gets more bizarre by the minute. The monstrous imagery of Goya’s final creative period has inspired choreographer Nicole Mossoux to meditate on violence and history. The dancers create a dark universe that captivates the audience and does not easily let them go. A spooky thriller!
Four people wake up in an unknown place completely covered in clothes, mountains of clothes. Slowly they build small refuges out of these clothes. Islands emerge and each garment enables the dancers to express a new aspect of their personality. In this new world, the dancers move with great humour and inventiveness, and the clothes become a true mirror of society. People make clothes and clothes make people, and together they take the audience on a fanciful journey full of virtuosity and empathy.
A burlesque exploration of everyday life. In a choreography bursting with humour, the Ben Aïm brothers take a fresh look at the absurdity of our everyday life. Six dancers and acrobats deal humorously with our daily coexistence, our gestures, our physicality. Could it be that it is precisely this lightness of humour that enables us to see our reality with new powers of imagination?
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.
Sorry, the performance has been canceled and will be postponed to the next season.
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.
Following on from his successful collaboration with the Ukrainian Dakh Daughters, conductor Gast Waltzing invites the audience to take a musical trip. The energy of electric banjo queen Morgane Ji meets the instrumentalists of the Orchestre National de Jazz. Together they bring the world to Esch-sur-Alzette – an unforgettable evening of world music!
The performance will be postponed to the next season.
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 they each of them meddle 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.
The performance has been canceled and will be postponed to the next season.
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 dons his boxing gloves to create a universe in which poetry and humour, classic music and Brazilian dance all join together.
Can one find refuge in solitude? Kindly old Monsieur X appears to live all by himself, enjoying his well-earned retirement in his apartment. But he is not as lonely as it seems. His furniture, utensils and memorabilia are talking to him; but they are not always friendly. Monsieur X has his head in the clouds, and reality and dream intertwine. This play is without words, but is all the more charming on that account, featuring as it does expressive body language à la Charlie Chaplin. Actor Pierre Richard beautifully takes the spectators on a journey into the fabulous world of Monsieur X.
Molière Award 2019 for Best Director Nomination Molière Award 2020 for Best Solo Show
Following the success of its first edition in 2018, Independent Little Lies – ILL will present its second festival Queer Little Lies on November 12 – 14th at the Escher Theater. Performances, movies, round-tables, workshops, a masterclass and a party to round it all up: on three days, artists from Luxembourg and abroad will queer your understandings of bodies, sexuality and desire. Be ready to challenge the norms!
PROGRAMME 13.11 :
20:00
Performance m.a.d. -mutually affirmed deviance m.a.d. explores the collective body of four performers and their deviance from the norm. Together they venture a shared vulnerability and, strengthened by this newfound unity, they set out to disrupt the vicious cycle of discrimination, hatred and violence. Through movement and sound the four protagonists attempt to transform the martial meaning of m.a.d. (“mutually assured destruction”) into “mutually affirmed deviance” – into a daring “yes!” in celebration of the body and of their common breakout from its alienating socializations.
Talk with the artists after the performance.
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