Nine lives for dance! The company of Soria Rem and Mehdi Ouachek is famous for their breath-taking shows mixing hip-hop, classical dance and pantomime. In their latest creation, nine dancers tell their personal stories and their difficulties of finding their own style. Anopas was shown digitally in 2020 and reached a record-breaking 17000 viewers. This powerful and empathic performance is about the difficult path of finding yourself and telling your own story.
Flamenclown
EN Singer Laura Vital and clown Fran Caballero discover a sleeping dancer and try to wake her up. They are successful. Wearing a typical flamenco dress, she plays the castanets, tap-dances and moves to the live music. From tango to alegria to tanguilloa, the audience discovers the many rhythms of Spanish and Latin American dance. The clown’s amusing jokes and the singer’s didactic skills introduce the young audience to the world of flamenco and encourage them to utter their very first “Olé!”
ES La cantaora Laura Vital está tratando de despertar a una bailaora. Viene a ayudarla Fran Caballero, un payaso con nariz roja y unos instrumentos musicales un poco raros, y entre los dos lo consiguen. Y cuando la bailaora se despierta, se abre un mundo nuevo: a ritmo de tangos y alegrías, de rasgueos de guitarra y repique de castañuelas, la bailaora gira y gira haciendo revolotear el vestido. Entre bromas del payaso y explicaciones nada rollo de la cantaora, los niños, con la marcha que les dan estos artistas tan simpáticos, lanzan sus primeros oles.
As part of FlamencoFestival Esch
Atelier flamenco
Learn the basics of flamenco with Ana Morales, winner of the Giraldillo Prize for the best dancer at the Sevilla Biennale, on Saturday 29 may (10 a.m. to 12 a.m.).
Reservation : ateliers.theatre@villeesch.lu
Humanimal
The earth is shaking, everything is disintegrating. A child is facing a blank canvas and starts to create a new world with black colour. The child’s only tools are it’s own body and the colour. Bit by bit, a new universe emerges: forests, clouds, birds and whales. Dancer and choreographer Bénédicte Mottart invites young and old to join her on this voyage of intimate discovery. In harmony with the live music specifically created for Humanimal , Mottart confronts the audience with our instinctive physical world relation ship. In each human being an animal is slumbering, and within that animal a whole world – see for yourself!
Speakeasy
The mafia films of the 1930s have inspired The Rat Pack company to create their first very own stage show. Six acrobats bring a Scorsese-like world to life. A mafia boss, his wife, his henchman, a pin-up girl, a barman and an outlaw amaze the audience with spectacular stunts and extreme body control. They are accompanied by the music of well-known French electro masters Chinese Man. Breathtaking!
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.
Dance workshop for parents and children
In connection with the show tock tock, choreographer Annick Pütz is giving a workshop for parents and children during which they are given playful guidance on how to start moving purposefully, engaging with rhythm and dance, on Saturday 6 march (10:00 a.m to 12:00 a.m.).
Reservation: ateliers.theatre@villeesch.lu
Frusques
Four people wake up in an unknown place completely covered in clothes, mountains of clothes. Slowly they build small refuges out of these clothes. Islands emerge and each garment enables the dancers to express a new aspect of their personality. In this new world, the dancers move with great humour and inventiveness, and the clothes become a true mirror of society. People make clothes and clothes make people, and together they take the audience on a fanciful journey full of virtuosity and empathy.
Hannah Arendt auf der Bühne
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New York am 4. Dezember 1975, Hannah Arendt arbeitet an ihrem Buch Vom Leben des Geistes. Es wird ein Welterfolg werden. Doch das weiß die Philosophin genauso wenig, wie sie weiß, dass heute der letzte Tag ihres Lebens sein wird. Da taucht plötzlich ein kleines Mädchen in ihrem Zimmer auf und stellt sich als „auch eine Hannah“ vor. Sie möchte von der alten Hannah wissen, was sie da mache. Denkt sie sich Worte aus?
Ja, tatsächlich, Hannah denkt sich Worte aus. Mit ihnen lassen sich nicht nur Geschichten erzählen, sondern ganze Welten erschaffen – Welten, die das Leben lebenswerter machen, gerade in finsteren Zeiten. Gemeinsam gehen die junge und die alte Hannah ins Theater. Mit dem Publikum begeben sie sich in die Schule des Urteilens und zeigen, wie das Theater auch für die kleinsten Zuschauer einen Raum öffnet für die großen Fragen der Menschheit zwischen Liebe, Leben und Tod.
Hauptpreis auf dem Kinder und Jugendtheatertreffen in Huy 2019 für die französische Fassung des Stückes.
Facéties
A burlesque exploration of everyday life. In a choreography bursting with humour, the Ben Aïm brothers take a fresh look at the absurdity of our everyday life. Six dancers and acrobats deal humorously with our daily coexistence, our gestures, our physicality. Could it be that it is precisely this lightness of humour that enables us to see our reality with new powers of imagination?