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 – Der Schnee von Gestern
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.

Pupo

Pinocchio, the talking pine log from Carlo Collodi’s imagination, inspired Sofia Nappi to create this new choreography. In Pupo, the troupe of seven dancers show what they’re made of: the dance pulses to an effervescent tempo, physical commitment is unconditional and muscles tighten as if hooked on the strings of a virtuoso puppeteer. Having performed in Hofesh Shechter’s shows and as the recipient of frequent invitations to work with international companies (Nederlands Dans Theater, Scottish Dance Theatre, etc.), the Italian choreographer poses the question: how can we adults rediscover the essence, impulsive and joyful, of our childhood?

Pas Bête

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Rappelez-vous Poil de la bête la saison passée. Autour de Juan et Diane, artistes fermier·ères, brillait toute une constellation d’actrices formidables : des canes, des poules, mais aussi Paulette la chienne, fidèle au poste. Et s’il y en a une qui ne stresse pas à l’idée de remonter sur scène, c’est bien elle !
Loyauté, courage, fidélité : depuis toujours, on associe le chien à quelques valeurs fondamentales, ce que ne démentiront ni Snoopy, ni Gromit, ni Milou. Mais qu’en est-il en réalité ? Au gré d’expériences insolites et drôles, Pas Bête nous plonge dans les pensées philosophiques… de la race canine ! Car ce que l’animal nous enseigne passe souvent inaperçu, et Paulette compte bien nous révéler quoi. Le chien, bien plus que le meilleur ami de l’Homme ?

Feste

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?

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