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.
Atelier de bien-être
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Autour du spectacle Les jours de la lune, nous vous proposons un atelier de bien-être et d’expression corporelle.
Après avoir mené une carrière d’artiste lyrique pendant 30 ans, Elisabeth Baudry s’est reconvertie et formée durant 7 ans à une pratique de médiation corporelle : la pédagogie perceptive.
À travers des exercices adaptés à toutes conditions physiques, la pédagogie perspective permet de mieux comprendre son corps et ses sensations, tout en proposant des techniques pour remédier à certains inconforts.
Et si on passait un dimanche après-midi au théâtre ?
14h : atelier de bien-être
16h : échanges autour d’un café
17h : spectacle Les jours de la lune avec mot d’introduction par l’équipe artistique
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?
Dans les jupes de ma mère
Ah, the first day of school! The long hours spent far from home, shyness when meeting classmates, and the reassuring creases of mummy’s dress. To narrate this unusual day, the costumes of our two actors-puppeteers unfold before our eyes, as if by magic. A shoe becomes a bathtub full of bubbles, an inside out jacket becomes a kitchen where you can have breakfast and an arm becomes a road you can drive away on. Funny and inventive, the story of this first day at school turns out to be extraordinary and reassuring for the whole family.
Le Firmament
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« Une des soirées les plus intenses et captivantes qui puissent se vivre au théâtre » Le Monde
1759, en pleine Angleterre rurale. Une domestique est condamnée pour meurtre. Quand la jeune femme prétend être enceinte – ce qui la sauverait de la pendaison – un jury de 12 matrones est constitué, face à elle, pour décider de son sort. À l’extérieur, la foule réclame du sang. À l’intérieur, les jurées se livrent à un combat acharné, où le diable n’est jamais loin.
À la tête d’une impressionnante troupe de treize comédiennes et trois comédiens, Chloé Dabert donne vie une fresque judiciaire et sociale qui est aussi un véritable procès à suspens. Justice, patriarcat, maternité, conflits de classe… : Le Firmament fait subtilement entendre, dans une mise en scène d’une intensité rare et assortie de magnifiques images vidéo, les grandes questions d’aujourd’hui.
Spectacle disponible sur demande en audiodescription à l’adresse rp.theatre@villeesch.lu
Poil de la bête
You know, hens and ducks have stage fright, sometimes. It’s their first time at the theater… Fortunately a faithful female sheepdog guides and gathers them together. Except now, instead of the traditional flock of sheep, a dashing and whirling ballet of feathered feet appear before our eyes. Artists-farmers, Juan and Diane join this crazy, funny and acrobatic round dance to explore the links that connect us to domestic animals. Set to the music of an improvisational pianist, their charming beasts delightful animals are the heroines of a hair-raising world that promises many twists… and lucky escapes!
Children workshop
Around Dat klengt Meedchen aus dem Mier / La petite fille de la mer, we offer a workshop of games and theatrical improvisations. Children can have fun together and share a moment of creativity and discovery of the theatre.
P’tits brunch du théâtre : on sunday, after or before the performance, have brunch with your kids and take part in a workshop.
Performance at 11:00 (LU) or 15:00 (FR)
Brunch 12:00 (registration : reservation.theatre@villeesch.lu)
Children workshop 13:00-14:30
Yé !
Water, life and us. When they were younger, those artists went from one Guinean beach to another to perform their first acrobatic acts. The 13 members of Circus Baobab collective now display their talent and inventiveness on stages all over the world. Acrobatic lifts propelling them in the air, vertiginous human pyramids and powerful hand-to-hand combats come one after another in an effervescent pace. On this set littered with plastic bottles, they set off to convey the social and environmental emergency. This troupe finds its future in circus and proves – armed with unfailing commitment and solidarity – that a future exists per se.