What if Ophelia weren’t dead? Four women inhabited by a common strength, strange creatures with glistening hair, perambulate in the reflections of water on stage as well as on screen. Those muddled swells double their bodies, free them from gravity and exert over them a destructive attraction… Based on the Shakespearian figure of Ophelia, dead by drowning, Nicole Mossoux and Patrick Bonté’s new creation seizes the audience members. Everything there is unwonted, captivating, and resolutely black. The couple of artists likes inventing unseen worlds where the audience lets itself slide willingly into deep water.
Deep River
A figure of African-American dancing, Alonzo King is performing for the first time in Luxemburg with his troupe, LINES Ballet. Endowed with a natural sensuality, ten athletic women and men offer, just by dancing, an astonishing emotional journey. King collaborated with the greatest on that occasion: jazz pianist Jason Moran created the play’s original soundtrack and Lisa Fischer, a Grammy Award laureate, commands with her gospel singing. A manner to display a humanistic dancing, where sweeping ensemble moves make way for sculptural and carnal duos, in a tireless quest for beauty.
Juventud
Speed and youth! From the first to the last second of Juventud, five jugglers manifest unfailing endurance and audacity. Made of danced fighting and complicit hand game, the choreography leaves no space to hesitations. Each movement brings about another one, in a flurry of hypnotic acts whose pace, unrelenting, goes crescendo. Traditional juggling objects, balls, masses, and rings get formed and disformed, to mold bodies and come, with great poetry, to another life.
tock tock
Dancer and choreographer Annick Pütz takes the audience on a journey to discover all the senses. On a playfully designed stage, she discovers the materiality of the objects around her and establishes a sensitive relationship with them. The music adapts to her movements and reflects them. Slowly, an enchanted world of sensuality comes into existence.
Baby
Without concession nor modesty, William Cardoso’s work deals with the desire to live. Committed to LGBTQIA+ issues, the young Luxemburgish choreographer scrutinizes the vertigo that grips us, when society’s expectations oppress the most deeply buried part of ourselves. On stage, two dancers manifest a very personal physical and dynamic commitment. The stake is to maintain a balance or to find one. Out of this fault line, those two dancing bodies build a line of defense for themselves, to claim even more the need to walk freely.
Au jardin des Potiniers
In this miniature botanical landscape, heads poke out beyond the mountains. Those little faces look familiar: they’re your kids! But don’t panic, they’re invited to contemplate a profuse and poetic world. As they’re placed beneath a model, their heads stick out and they end up at the heart of this microcosm that comes to life like by magic. Fauna and flora awaken and time freezes: the young (and less young) audience members are the witnesses of a beauty whose balance seems fragile… Au jardin des Potiniers is a humble and immediate encounter with nature and its splendor.
The theatre’s little brunches
On Sunday lunchtimes, we’re offering a free brunch (12 noon) followed by a parent-child theater workshop (1.30>3.30pm, 5€). Information and registration at: rp.theatre@villeesch.lu
Bakéké
Are you desperately perfectionist? So is he! Tight as a clam and clever as a cartload of monkeys, our friends seems to have only one idea in mind, under his straw hat: building pyramids… of buckets. Not 3 or 6, but 60 lime-colored buckets. Through all means, especially the craziest ones, he intends to give them sumptuous geometric shapes. So, this dreamer aligns and piles up, to the point of hubris… Like for Cleopatra’s architect, it’s however in imperfection and mistakes that poetry will come out. Bakéké (“bucket” in Hawaiian) is a story that tells our own obstinacies, deliciously absurd and liberating.
As part of the Festival Clowns in Progress
N’imPORTE quoi
Knock knock! A virtuoso of burlesque comedy, renown as one of the best clowns in the world, Leandre knocks at Escher Theater’s door again. And he’s not alone! In a wall-less house a bit wobbly and full of doors, the Catalan artist takes four of his notorious accomplices on board. Gags pour in, objects fly across and bodies are thrown in the air, as our five friends cling to anything looking like hope or love. Those stupidly human beings sublimate themselves, creating a world filled with dreams, absurdity and tenderness which, no matter your age, you would like to live in.
As part of the Festival Clowns in Progress
Parent-child theater workshop
Around Au Jardin des Potiniers, our activity leaders offer you a workshop of games and theatrical improvs.
This workshop is offered as part of “P’tits brunchs du théâtre”: before or after a young-audience show, our team offers you to have a brunch with your kids and take part in activities as a family.
11:00 am, 02:00 pm or 04:00 pm Show Au jardin des Potiniers
12:00 am Brunch (free)
01:30 >03:30 pm Parent-child theater workshop (5 €)
Village de la paix
La place la Résistance sous le signe de la paix !
Des ateliers et des concerts gratuits ainsi que des stands culinaires animeront le quartier du Brill autour de la notion de paix.
14h00 chaîne humaine : départ Place Norbert Metz (Bâtiment Justice et Paix), arrivée Place de la Résistance
15h00-18h00 ateliers, animations musicales, stands culinaires
18h00 dîner collectif (uniquement pour les participants aux ateliers)
19h00-21h00 concerts et spectacle de danse ukrainien
Programme ateliers
(gratuit sur réservation à ensemblequartiersesch@i-a.lu)
Atelier immersif de danse et art
Atelier-parcours qui enchaînera danse et art pour permettre aux participant·es d’exprimer leurs émotions à travers leurs corps et leur créativité. Dès 12 ans.
@ Ariston (9, rue Pierre Claude)
Mocktails
Atelier de création et dégustation de cocktails sans alcool pour émoustiller vos papilles.
@ Centre Social et Culturel Portugais (17, rue Nelson Mandela)
Bien-être (Yoga, Relaxation et Tai Chi)
Atelier qui détendra à coup sûr votre corps et votre esprit !
@ Centre Social et Culturel Portugais (17, rue Nelson Mandela)
Mémoire de la Résistance
Entre 1940 et 1944, des jeunes ont eu le courage de s’opposer au régime nazi. Regardons de plus près leur histoire à Esch.
@ Église Sacré-Cœur (77, rue Zénon Bernard)
Free Hugs
@ Place de la Résistance