Dear audience, you’re attending the Awards ceremony, no more and no less, compared to which the Palms, Césars, Lions, Ours and Oscars look like cheap trophies. Virtuoso circus performers, the nine members of the Back Pocket company serve as masters of ceremony, prizewinners and magnificent losers in this show evoking a cinema gala. Except that the glitz soon gives way to manifest jealousies, and the glamorous smiles are supplanted by the most rewarding low blows. The awards ceremony goes out of control, the humour fizzes like champagne, and the red carpet then becomes the stage for high-flying acrobatic prowess!
HMEsch goes JAZZ
When jazz is on, the Harmonie Municipale Esch-sur-Alzette doesn’t go away. It stays and plays wholeheartedly. Starting with a repertoire of well-known references such as Leonard Bernstein, Artie Shaw and Dmitri Shostakovich, the mood then shifts to a true club atmosphere. Ernie Hammes’s trumpet will unleash the Orchestra in a flourish combining: a world premiere, classics from great big bands of yesterday and today, and effervescent solo performances. An evening to whip artists, audiences and jazz into a frenzy.
Les nouvelles hallucinations de Lucas Cranach l’Ancien
Patrick Bonté and Nicole Mossoux achieved their European renown with a memorable show around the prominent Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach – a show that the two Belgian artists are reinventing today, 35 years later. In this work of cumulative illusions, dancers emerge from behind frames, like characters touched by a grace as strange as it is sensual. Whether they’re called Adam, Eve, Judith or Lucretia, these resurrected figures afford us the guilty pleasure of joining with them, five centuries later, in transgressing the rules and eating the forbidden fruit.
An introduction to the show by the artistic team will take place on the 26/03 at 7.15pm (FR).
Fair Play
As unstoppable as Usain Bolt in the 100 metres, two men who are complete opposites, but driven by the same desire to show off their muscles and reach Olympic heights, will have the audience shaking with laughter. On the programme: warm-up, boxing, swimming and a range of other sports performed according to the rules … of the clowning art! Patrice Thibaud and Philippe Leygnac borrow from the best of Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy to combine music, mime and running gags. Between rivalry and hits below the belt, these two sporty cocks of the walk offer a show whose audacity, eccentricity and comedy know no boundaries.
Moya
Aerial straps, trapeze, Cyr wheel, juggling and somersaults: ten artists from South Africa let loose in a display of liberating, acrobatic and colourful élan. Moya celebrates the footwork of two dances full of life and hope, performed in protest against apartheid: gumboot, inherited from the slaves who beat their rubber boots in the mines, and pantsula, a kind of house dance born in the black ghettos of Johannesburg. On a world tour, the Zip Zap company puts its boots back on and twirls, with an insane energy, between contemporary circus and South African melting pot.
Concert de Nouvel An
And here we go again. Gast Waltzing opens the year with a concert in which styles intersect and reinvent themselves. The conductor will have the Estro Armonico Luxembourg Chamber orchestra on his right, and, on his left, Ivorian singer Dobet Gnahoré and her musicians. With her powerful voice and impressive stage presence, this Grammy winner draws her inspiration from the creative energy of Abidjan, borrowing from Manding melodies, Zairean rumba, Ivorian ziglibiti and Cameroonian bikutsi. A concert with modern and traditional pan-African sounds, which promises a great moment of sharing.
La Louve
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Dans un village enneigé, la petite Lucie tombe gravement malade. Une louve qui rôde près des habitations lui a jeté un sortilège. Sa louvette a été enlevée par un villageois pour en faire un manteau. Qu’on lui rende sa fille, sinon Lucie mourra… Revêtant la peau de loup, Romane, orpheline du village, décide de se faire passer pour la louvette afin de déjouer le malédiction et sauver son amie. Mais plus elle grogne, renifle et bondit, plus Romane est fascinée par la majestueuse louve… Jusqu’où l’emmènera son subterfuge ? Quel est cet appel de la forêt que la petite éprouve soudain ? La Louve est une fable sur l’amitié, la parentalité, la métamorphose, le rapport des humains aux espèces sauvages et au vivant.
Le Rouge et le Noir
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1830. Besançon. Julien Sorel est jugé pour avoir tenté de tuer son ancienne amante. La sentence sera maximale. Plus que ce meurtre raté, c’est l’ascension sociale de ce fils de charpentier qui est dans le collimateur de la cour bourgeoise. Il a osé s’affranchir de ses origines modestes.
Tout était pourtant bien parti. La jeunesse, l’intelligence et la volonté d’être aimé : le brillant jeune homme est parvenu à se hisser en haut de la société par son savoir et ses liaisons avec Madame de Rênal et Mathilde de la Mole. C’est au moment d’être anobli qu’il est rattrapé par sa nature ambitieuse…
La metteuse en scène Catherine Marnas propose une adaptation condensée et actuelle du grand roman de Stendhal. Quelles pensées habitent Julien Sorel, qui à l’instar de l’écrivain et transfuge de classe Édouard Louis, est pétri d’un puissant sentiment de rage et d’injustice sociale.
Une introduction au spectacle par l’équipe artistique aura lieu à 19h15.
Festival Textes sans frontières
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Le festival Textes sans frontières, c’est quoi ? Des textes d’auteur·rices contemporain·es d’une région du globe, des artistes de théâtre réuni·es pour l’occasion, dans plusieurs lieux de spectacle de la Grande Région.
Pour cette nouvelle édition dédiée aux écritures en temps de guerre, les territoires concernés sont l’Ukraine, la Russie, l’Iran et la Syrie. Plus que de simples lectures, les textes sont joués sous une forme scénique légère. L’enjeu est de faire vibrer ces fragments de vies, pour ensuite se retrouver ensemble, publics et artistes, autour d’un brunch.
Lectures 11:00 – 17:00
Brunch 13:00
Plus d’informations à venir à partir de l’été 2025.
Legends
Mythological, medieval and fantastic, legends and fairy tales span the centuries. They carry timeless values … and majestic sonorities! The Harmonie Municipale Esch-sur-Alzette sets out to rediscover these compositions that capture the imagination. A story written and told by Luxembourgish storyteller François Conrad will be combined with music inspired by legendary accounts, before the instruments sound Johan de Meij’s melodies from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.