With cards, online, in sports, in love, play is everywhere and always. Jill Crovisier also likes to play. The Luxemburgish choreographer explores the theme with 8 dancers. Because beyond sheer competition, playing opens up luminous breaches in daily life. Playing ensures spaces of freedom where you deploy your imagination. Playing sometimes creates occasions for human warmth. The Game – Grand Finale is a show designed to rethink our place in the world and experiment with new ways of living together.
One Shot
A worldwide figure of the hip-hop scene, Ousmane Sy – who suddenly passed away in 2020 – got inspired by the house dance discovered in the clubs of New York and Chicago. Like Queen Blood, which received a standing ovation last season at the Escher Theater, his ultimate show features an all-female cast, this time powered live by a DJ’s turntables. Playful and combative, with astonishing precision, those women launch themselves into audacious solos or become one. With the exhilarating energy of “battles”, they create a space of partying, self-expression and sharing in a furious desire to live.
House dance workshop
The dancers from the Paradox-sal collective, who perform One Shot, will be giving an introduction to house dance. This workshop is an opportunity to share in the energy of the show and discover the basics of this dance born in the clubs.
Astor Piazzolla : Tango Passion !
There is music playing, singing, dancing, and you are walking around the narrow streets of Buenos Aires tonight. Accompanied by an accordionist, a contrabassist and two virtuoso dancers, soprano Stephany Ortega brings to life the tireless inventiveness of Astor Piazzolla, the father of modern tango. This man achieved to capture the popular spirit of tango – a pillar of Argentinian culture – by expressing it through a new voice, with classic classical and jazz influences. The evening showcases a set of his most beautiful canciones to convey to us, with a little pop and electro touch, an endless source of emotions and sensuality.
Musique Militaire Grand-Ducale
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Issu·es des Conservatoires des villes de Luxembourg, d’Esch-sur-Alzette et du Nord, les meilleur·es lauréat·es de l’examen national pour l’obtention du diplôme supérieur (année 2022/2023) sont placé·es sous le feu des projecteurs. Le public découvrira leurs talent et travail, avec le concours de la Musique Militaire Grand-Ducale.
Les solistes du gala des lauréats sont Katarzyna Kawinska au chant (Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg), Tracey Lamberty-Wohles à la trompette (Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg) Nicolas Leydenbach au piano (Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg) Catherine Origer à la flûte piccolo (Conservatoire de musique de la Ville d’Esch-sur-Alzette) et Raphaël Clement à la contrebasse (Conservatoire du Nord).
La Musique Militaire Grand-Ducale est placée sous la direction de son chef de la musique, le lieutenant-colonel Jean-Claude Braun.
In a situation of disability
Escher Theater stands up for every person’s autonomy by offering an adapted welcome to people with disabilities. No matter what your situation is, we are at your disposal and we encourage you to report your constraints when you book your ticket at the ticket office to benefit from information and advice on the shows.
Our facilities are equipped to receive you. There are two PMR (people with reduced mobility) spots in each of our two auditoriums. Elevators and access ramps also allow for a free circulation within the building. Guide dogs are authorized in both auditoriums. There are binoculars available at the Theater’s ticket office and Ariston’s front desk. Both Escher Theater auditoriums are equipped with a magnetic loop and there are headsets available upon reservation.
There are several shows available as is to blind or visually impaired audience or deaf or hearing impaired audience:
Double Side
This evening in two acts allows us to celebrate the artists of the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza – Aterballetto. With Stabat Mater, Italy’s most renowned ballet draws from the contemporary, religion-inspired music of Arvo Pärt. Three dancers accompanied by musicians and singers evolve within a spectral setting, fighting for their salvation against bands of rubber that embrace their bodies as much as imprison them. Equally intense, the second choreography With drooping wings gathers four musicians and eight dancers around the Baroque scores of Henry Purcell.
La Galerie
The circus comes to the museum! In the monotonous whitecube of a contemporary art gallery, eight characters lightly mock its conventions. Rigid and uptight at the start, they unwind with colorful, liberatory, and acrobatic élan. From the first to last moments of a performance that forges ahead at full speed, the sets are constructed and deconstructed in the service of a suite of inventive and supercharged numbers. Eyes widen and light up before these artists who are alternately circus performers, dancers, actors or musicians, but above all, they are very touching. And that is indeed fine art.
¡Fandango!
EN Between Flamenco and contemporary movement, traditional song and electronic music, ¡Fandango! draws on Iberian folk culture to celebrate a Spain that is liberated and intoxicating. Former dancer of the Flamenco Ballet of Andalusia and the National Ballet of Spain, David Coria sets his choreography to the spellbinding music of David Lagos. Nine performers dance, act, and sing in unison; the red stage reminiscent of an Andalusian square from which popular fiestas and heart piercing lamentations resound. A convivial time and change of scenery guaranteed!
ES Fandango, término polisémico, designa unos aires folklóricos determinantes para el repertorio flamenco y una fiesta popular más bien licenciosa que la Iglesia condenó ya en el XVI. ¡Fandango!, con signos de admiración, es un espectáculo construido por David Coria sobre el disco ”Hodierno”, de David Lagos, en el que la música y el baile trazan y recorren el círculo de la vida de la gente de la calle, sus miserias y alegrías, su contexto histórico y religioso. Según el musicólogo Claude Worms, “si Fellini y Nino Rota hubieran sido flamencos, seguro que habrían creado la puesta en escena y la música de un espectáculo comparable a ¡Fandango!”.
As part of FlamencoFestival Esch.
Best show at the Biennale of Seville 2020.
L’arbre qui avait des ailes
EN As the legend goes, an oak tree wanted to become a woman, it wanted to fly away. That’s how it interlaced its branches to sing, dance, and play, from its roots all the way up to the sky. The choreographer Anabel Veloso combines grace and suppleness, percussion and guitar, to incarnate and transmit flamenco for little ones that hums and frolics at the foot of a tree, across the four seasons. From the shimmering colors that come alive in Spring to the nocturnal lullabies murmured on Winter’s coldest evenings, The Tree That Had Wings is a performance filled with mischief and poetry.
ES Un buen día, la encina siente desde la raíz un impulso extraño: quiere bailar, cantar, desde la tierra hasta el cielo. En esta fábula contemporánea, el baile de Anabel Veloso, el cante de Rocío Zamora y la música de Trinidad Jiménez y Gabriel Pérez trasplantan las emociones de los palos más dulces del flamenco a las hojas y las flores del árbol que quería volar. Tras su estreno en la Bienal de Sevilla, “El árbol con alas” fue nominado a los premios Max como mejor espectáculo infantil.
As part of FlamencoFestival Esch.