Focus Performing arts in Luxembourg

Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg is glad to invite you to join the first performing arts platform from Luxembourg to held in from the 23rd to the 25th of March 2023 in Luxembourg City and Esch-sur-Alzette.

A program divided into three thematic days – young audiences, theatre, dance – will offer you a unique opportunity to discover the performing arts landscape of Luxembourg, its places, its artists, its creations and its challenges.

Tuesday 23 of March – Focus young audiences

10:30 | Go! / Jennifer Gohier, in collaboration with the performers

Choreography: Jennifer Gohier, in collaboration with the performers
With: Youri de Gussem, Ville Oinonen

Dramaturgy: Ville Kurki
Musical creation: Gilles Sornette
Lighting design: Nico Tremblay

Production: Corps In Situ, ARTEZIA asbl
Co-production: Escher Theater, Rotondes, Cité Musicale (Metz)
Partners and supporters: TROIS C‑L Centre de Création Chorégraphique luxembourgeois, Région Grand Est, La Machinerie 54, Jojo Oulu Dance Center (Finlande), Vauban – École et Lycée Français de Luxembourg, Fondation Sommer, Théâtre du Marché aux Grains (Bouxwiller), Karukera Ballet (Guadeloupe), DRAC Grand Est
Financial support: Ministère de la Culture, Luxembourg

GO! is a game between two boys who meet, seek each other and challenge each other through a martial choreography. With each new game, they get to know each other, control each other, surpass themselves. Everyone learns from the other, their strengths and their limits without their ever being a winner or a loser. The opponent is above all a playing partner to be respected if one wants to be able to continue playing. At the crossroads of contemporary dance, martial arts and digital technology, GO! combines humour, precision of gesture and beauty of movement.

Venue: Rotondes
3 Place des Rotondes – Luxembourg

14:00 | Presentation of projects for young audiences

Five Luxembourg creators of performances for young audiences with different backgrounds will introduce you to the full range of artistic forms developed for young audiences in Luxembourg, themselves from very different backgrounds. From installation to film-concert via dance, in Luxembourgish, German or French, these works are aimed at all ages and all languages.

Moderation: Laura Graser, Rotondes

 

Cie Corps In Situ / ARTEZIA asbl
Trained at the Angers Conservatory and then at the CCN Ballet du Nord School, Jennifer joined the Ballet de l’Opéra Théâtre de Metz-Métropole in 2005. Between 2009 and 2016, she worked for various choreographers such as Christophe Garcia (Cie La Parenthèse), Julien Ficely (Cie Filament), Anu Sistonen (FI), Bernard Baumgarten (LU) and Annick Pütz (LU). In 2014 she founded with Grégory Beaumont the company Corps In Situ/ARTEZIA asbl, based in Metz and Luxembourg, to carry out their own projects. From the stage to the public space, passing through schools and historical monuments, their works of variable shapes go out to meet the public. Their cross-border projects also shine internationally.

 

Jill Crovisier
Graduated from the Conservatory of Music in Esch (LU) before studying in China, France, USA, Indonesia and Israel, the Luxembourgish award-winning dance artist Jill Crovisier works as a dancer, choreographer, videographer, sound designer and artistic director of JCMP. Jill has been travelling around the world for the past 17 years and participated in numerous dance festivals and choreographic competitions. Also involved in dance therapeutic projects and collaborating with different institutions, the multidisciplinary artist aims to connect people through art and shares with conviction the message: ”What moves us makes us the mover we are.’ The JC movement production is funded by the Ministry of Culture Luxembourg.

 

Giovanni Zazzera
The choreographer and dancer, Giovanni Zazzera trained at the Luxembourg Conservatory and continued his studies in Joinville-Brazil, where he worked for various companies. In 2013, he signed his first creation entitled “IF I..”. That same year, he received the Luxembourg Dance Award. His creations have been presented at TanzMainz Festival (D), Barnes Crossing Solo/Duo Festival 2016, Köln (D), Théâtre Transversales de Verdun (F), Théâtre Juarez Machado de Joinville (Brazil), among others. In 2020, he founded his own company Z ART Dance as well as the Lucoda collective with which he notably led projects within the framework of the European capitals of culture Esch, Kaunas and Novi Sad 2022.

 

Jean Bermes
The bass-baritone Jean Bermes studied singing and conducting at the University of Music “Mozarteum” in Salzburg and at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. As a singer, he works on various European stages such as the Flemish Opera in Antwerp and Ghent, the National Theater and the Grand Theater of Luxembourg, Kammeroper München, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opéra de Bordeaux, Landestheater Salzburg, Stadttheater Konstanz.
He is co-founder of the Salzburg Comedian Harmonists and the group Sodaa focusing on interdisciplinary musical theatre. His passion is to perform and invent musical theater shows and musical education projects for young audiences.


Ela Baumann
Ela Baumann studied music and dance at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. In her work as a director, she explores the combination of music and dance. Ela Baumann’s creations for young audiences are presented in many concert halls and theaters around the world: Luzern Festival, Wiener Staatsoper, Salzburger Festspiele, Konzerthaus Berlin, Washington Kennedy-Center, Hong Kong City Hall, Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie Cologne, Philharmonie Luxembourg. Her work was rewarded with a Junge-Ohren-Preis, a YEAH! Young European Award and a YOUNG AUDIENCE MUSIC AWARD.

 

Florence Kraus
Florence Kraus is a multi-saxophonist artist-creator. She gratuated in classical and jazz music, but she also studied art at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. With her saxophones, her extraordinary energy, and her multidisciplinary talents, she is part of many groups and projects including Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar (Balkan rock), Grizz-Li (brass band pop rock), Afro carnival of animals (young afro audience), Cumbia Ya (world, Colombia), NEW improvised musical comedy. and creates original shows on manufactured instruments and diverted objects, Trioman Orchestri, Curieuse Nature (film-concert), Toystroy (concert-electro installation).

Gregory Terrier
Grégoire Terrier is a composer and musician. He is the winner of several competitions in film music (Best Score in 2022 at the Film in Focus Festival, Composition Prize in the short film category at the Aubagne Film Festival in 2021), in experimental music (Music and Research in 2020, INA GRM in 2018) and in sound documentaries (Gulliver Grant from SACD and SCAM in 2018). His passion for art leads him to collaborate with filmmakers, choreographers and visual artists. In particular, he signed the soundtrack for the series “Le Mystère Satoshi” by Rémi Forte for IKO/ARTE.

20:00 | “Café Terminus” / Frank Hoffmann / Florian Hirsch

Direction: Frank Hoffmann
Text: Frank Hoffmann and Florian Hirsch
Assistant director : Jacques Schiltz, Pauline Cano
With: Felix Adams, Marc Baum, François Camus, Esther Gaspart-Michels, Maria Gräfe, Nora Koenig, Hana Sofia Lopes, Marco Lorenzini, René Nuss, Adrien Papritz, Philippe Thelen, Serge Tonnar
Set and costume design: Jasna Bosnjak
Sound design: René Nuss
Lighting: Daniel Sestak

Production: Théâtre National du Luxembourg
Co-production: CAPE – Center des Arts Pluriels Ettelbrück

It’s war. Or a crisis. In any case, there are problems in Luxembourg. The situation has gotten so bad that strangers have retired to an old, somewhat run down café, for fear of the outside world, for fear of the future. Sitting at the Café Terminus, there are all kinds of people, people on the margins of society, rickety existences, hopeless perhaps, but always full of the grotesque hope of a “tomorrow” which should be better. This protected little world comes to a standstill on the day when Hary, owner of the bar, celebrates his birthday. Everything is suddenly different, the war or the crisis, which until now was just outside, burst into Café Terminus with full force.

Venue: Théâtre National du Luxembourg
194, route de Longwy – Luxembourg

20:00 | “La Campagne” / Véronique Fauconnet / Martin Crimp

Direction: Véronique Fauconnet
Assistant director: Aude-Laurence Biver
Text: Martin Crimp
Translation: Philippe Djian
With: Claire Cahen, Ali Esmili, Clara Hertz

Scenography and costumes: Joanie Rancier
Assistant director: Elena Vozarikova
Light design: Manu Nourdin

Production: Théâtre Ouvert Luxembourg

Richard and Corinne, both in their forties, have retired to the countryside to start over. The husband, a doctor, visits his patients one after the other at night. One evening, he comes home with a stranger found by the side of the road. His wife questions him. It’s too late. Doubt creeps into intimacy, gradually revealing a fracture within the couple. In a writing punctuated by repetitions and interruptions, the British playwright Martin Crimp questions the unsaid and the power of language to distort the truth or circumvent it. Between intrigue and philosophical reflection, La Campagne plunges us into a poetic and realistic camera where mystery, desire and betrayal mingle.

The play La Campagne by Martin Crimp (translation by Philippe Djian) is published and represented by L’ARCHE – publisher & theater agency.

Venue: Théâtre Ouvert Luxembourg
143 Rte de Thionville – Luxembourg

20:00 | “Gretchen 89 ff” / Daniel Texter / Lutz Hübner

Director: Daniel Texter
Text: Lutz Hübner
With: Luc Feit, Steve Karier

Production: Kasemattentheater (2007)
New version: Escher Theater (2021)

In the evening, Gretchen was quite confused: “What is this beautiful box? I have permanently closed the sanctuary. That’s wonderful! What’s inside?” That’s what Gretchen wants to know in the famous jewelry box scene from Goethe’s Faust. On stage, Luc Feit and Steve Karier try their hand at each other again and again to play this scene by changing roles. Feit slips into the skin of various actresses, while Karier embodies various types of directors.

In his play, Lutz Hübner takes the audience behind the scenes of the theater and gives a humorous insight into the reality of the actor’s life – a quiet gem of theatrical art, played by two masters of their field.

Venue: Escher Theater
122, rue de l’Alzette – Esch-sur-Alzette

Friday 24 of March – Focus Theatre

11:00 | Panorama of the Luxembourg stages

We invite you to discover the Luxembourg scene in all its diversity and creativity. An overview of the production houses and an overview of their projects will incite you, we hope, to deepen your knowledge of the venues and creations of the Grand Duchy.

Presentations:
Escher Theater
Théâtre National du Luxembourg
Théâtre Ouvert Luxembourg
Théâtre du Centaure
Kasemattentheater
Théâtres de la ville de Luxembourg
KulturFabrik
Kinneksbond, Centre Culturel Mamer
Opderschmelz

Modération : Pablo Chimienti, Theater Federatioun

Venue : Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg
1 Bd Robert Schuman, 2525 Luxembourg

14:00 | Meeting with the artists in focus

The four theatrical creations on the program of this Performing Arts Focus are enough to capture all the richness and diversity of the Luxembourg scene. The theater here is fundamentally intercultural, like the country, written and performed as much in Luxembourgish as in French, German or English. It is imbued with forms and aesthetics from different countries and the staging brings together post-dramatic plays, the Regietheater and well-made plays from the Anglo-Saxon world.

To deepen this perception, Kultur | lx invites you to discuss with the protagonists, actors, authors, directors of the shows presented as part of this Focus programme as well as the Luxembourg selection in Avignon and Edinburgh.

Moderation: Victor Mayot, Kultur | lx

 

Frank Hoffmann
Frank Hoffmann studied Roman and German languages ​​and literature and philosophy in Luxembourg and Heidelberg. He took his first steps as assistant director with David Mouchtar-Samorai. In 1981, he founded the “Theater im Romanischen Keller”. He will then work as a director, among others, in Berlin, Paris, Cologne, Basel and Stockholm. In 1996, Hoffmann founded the Théâtre National du Luxembourg, which he still directs. From 2004 to 2018, he was intendant and general manager of Frank Castorf’s “Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen”.
Frank Hoffmann has produced more than a hundred shows in more than thirty theaters, including the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Deutsche Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Théâtre National de la Colline in Paris, the Freie Volksbühne in Berlin.

 

Florian Hirsch
Florian Hirsch is a playwright, author and translator. He did his MA in German Literature and American Studies at the Humboldt University and the Free University of Berlin. After various independent productions in Berlin and having worked as a dramaturgy assistant at the Maxim Gorki Theater, Hirsch will work from 2009 to 2019 as a dramaturg at the Burgtheater in Vienna as well as at the Salzburger Festspiele and Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen. Since 2019, Florian Hirsch has been head playwright at the Théâtre National du Luxembourg. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Union des Théâtres de l’Europe.

 

Véronique Fauconnet
Véronique Fauconnet took over the artistic direction of TOL in 1999. Trained at the Luxembourg Conservatory, she has some sixty productions to her credit, ranging from Molière to Koltès. In 2009 she staged Huis clos de Sartre at the TOL. Will follow Doute by John Patrick Shanley, Good People by David Lindsay-Abaire, Race by David Mamet, The Laws of Gravity by Jean Teulé, Heaven by Luxembourg author Tullio Forgiarini, Vincent River by Philip Ridley, A Dinner farewell by La Patellière and Delaporte and Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire. She also created at the National Theater of Luxembourg Getting Attention by Martin Crimp and Chanson douce by Leïla Slimani.

 

Steve Karier
Steve Karier joined the State School of Music and Dramatic Art in Stuttgart and in 1984 joined the ensemble of the Basel City Theater for a first engagement. In 1995, he joined the Schauspielhaus Bochum for five years, then briefly took over the management of the Kulturfabrik cultural center in his hometown of Esch-sur-Alzette, and after a three-year stint at the Staatstheater in Mainz, returned for three years to Basel until 2009, when he co-founded Fundamental and took over its presidency. Since 2010, he has directed the Fundamental Monodrama Festival, the main activity of the association.

 

Claire Thill
Trained as an actress at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London and with Philippe Gaulier in Paris and the SITI Company in New York, Claire Thill has been writing her own shows, theatrical installations and performances since 2015. Her research combines formal experimentation and investigation of images, perceptions and the art of storytelling. Her often fragmented narratives offer sometimes absurd experiences yet rooted in our contemporary world. Her plays have been performed in England, Spain, Poland, Germany and at the Prager Theaterfestival Deutscher Sprache.
In 2013, she won the jury prize at the 100Grad Festival with Dance Play.
Claire is part of the Independent Little Lies and Ampersand Variations collectives as well as the radio collective Radiôme.

Larisa Faber
Larisa Faber was born in Romania, grew up in Luxembourg and trained in the U.K. at Drama Centre London. She devises her own work, writing for the stage and screen. Her writing has explored ageing, female reproductive choices and migration. She loves odd humour and weird musicals. Her plays have been performed in Luxembourg, Germany, Lithuania and the U.K.: Disko Dementia (2018, MASKéNADA), stark bollock naked (2019-2022, neimënster / Camden People’s Theatre London), 340x as part of Die neuen Todsünden (2021-2022, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe / Théâtre National du Luxembourg / Uppsala stadsteater), Papercut (2022, Mierscher Kulturhaus), GOOD GIRLS (2022, Théâtre d’Esch Luxembourg / Kaunas City Chamber Theatre Lithuania / Camden People’s Theatre London).

Venue : Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg
1 Bd Robert Schuman, 2525 Luxembourg

18:00 | “stark bollock naked / Larisa Faber

Writer/Director: Larisa Faber

Video designer: Louise Rhoades-Brown
Composer: Catherine Kontz
Designer: Mélanie Planchard
Choreographer: Hannah Ma
Artistic collaborator: Anne Simon
Stage manager: Max Stoltz

with: Larisa Faber and Catherine Kontz

Production: anonyma 
Co-production: neimënster
Supported by Camden People’s Theatre London, Oeuvre Nationale de Secours G-D Charlotte, Fondation Indépendance and FOCUNA

In partnership with CID Fraen an Gender

Tick-Tock. Tick-Tock.
It’s the biological clock.
A modern-day chick flick (but with a real naked body and honest conversation) about a woman’s quest to unravel the motherhood question: What to do with those (ageing) eggs? To reprogramme the brain: a hopeless endeavour? Everyone around her seems to be moving and she’s stuck still with the tick tick tock of the biological clock, her own expectations, and everyone else’s too. Featuring intricate video mapping on a naked body, a mini-orchestra of gynaecological instruments and egg recipes in song & dance, stark bollock naked is a tragicomedy about reclaiming the body and resetting the mind.

Venue: neimënster
28, rue Münster – Luxembourg

20:00 | “The Writer” / Claire Thill / Ella Hickson

Director: Claire Thill
Assistant directors: Christine Müller, Claire Wagener
Text: Ella Hickson
Dramaturgy: Oliwia Hälterlein
Decor: Marie-Luce Théis
Costume design: Marcus Karkhof
Movement coach: Sayoko Onishi
Light design: Marc Thein
Composition: Damiano Picci
Video: Anne Braun
With: Jenny Beacraft, Céline Camara, Philip Alfons Heitmann, Daron Yates

Production: Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

At the heart of the play is the character of the writer, a woman who undertakes to create a revolutionary scenic work, free from any patriarchal influence. Her struggles with the power dynamics of personal relationships also come under scrutiny.
During this time, the public is co-opted to become spectators of some of her writings as scenes from her work are staged in the play. This postmodern playfulness extends to the introduction of the character of the director, who in turn allows the structures of modern theatrical creation to be exposed and critiqued.

Venue: Théâtre des Capucins
9, place du Théâtre – Luxembourg

20:00 | “Café Terminus” / Frank Hoffmann / Florian Hirsch

Direction: Frank Hoffmann
Text: Frank Hoffmann and Florian Hirsch
Assistant director : Jacques Schiltz, Pauline Cano
With: Felix Adams, Marc Baum, François Camus, Esther Gaspart-Michels, Maria Gräfe, Nora Koenig, Hana Sofia Lopes, Marco Lorenzini, René Nuss, Adrien Papritz, Philippe Thelen, Serge Tonnar
Set and costume design: Jasna Bosnjak
Sound design: René Nuss
Lighting: Daniel Sestak

Production: Théâtre National du Luxembourg
Co-production: CAPE – Center des Arts Pluriels Ettelbrück

It’s war. Or a crisis. In any case, there are problems in Luxembourg. The situation has gotten so bad that strangers have retired to an old, somewhat run down café, for fear of the outside world, for fear of the future. Sitting at the Café Terminus, there are all kinds of people, people on the margins of society, rickety existences, hopeless perhaps, but always full of the grotesque hope of a “tomorrow” which should be better. This protected little world comes to a standstill on the day when Hary, owner of the bar, celebrates his birthday. Everything is suddenly different, the war or the crisis, which until now was just outside, burst into Café Terminus with full force.

Venue: Théâtre National du Luxembourg
194, route de Longwy – Luxembourg

20:00 | “La Campagne” / Véronique Fauconnet / Martin Crimp

Director: Véronique Fauconnet
Assistant director: Aude-Laurence Biver
Text: Martin Crimp
Translation: Philippe Djian
With: Claire Cahen, Ali Esmili, Clara Hertz

Scenography and costumes: Joanie Rancier
Assistant director: Elena Vozarikova
Light design: Manu Nourdin

Production: Théâtre Ouvert Luxembourg

Richard and Corinne, both in their forties, have retired to the countryside to start over. The husband, a doctor, visits his patients one after the other at night. One evening, he comes home with a stranger found by the side of the road. His wife questions him. It’s too late. Doubt creeps into intimacy, gradually revealing a fracture within the couple. In a writing punctuated by repetitions and interruptions, the British playwright Martin Crimp questions the unsaid and the power of language to distort the truth or circumvent it. Between intrigue and philosophical reflection, La Campagne plunges us into a poetic and realistic camera where mystery, desire and betrayal mingle.

The play La Campagne by Martin Crimp (translation by Philippe Djian) is published and represented by L’ARCHE – publisher & theater agency.

Venue: Théâtre Ouvert Luxembourg
143, route de Thionville – Luxembourg

20:00 | “Gretchen 89 ff” / Daniel Texter / Lutz Hübner

Director: Daniel Texter
Text: Lutz Hübner
With: Luc Feit, Steve Karier

Production: Kasemattentheater (2007)
New version: Escher Theater (2021)

In the evening, Gretchen was quite confused: “What is this beautiful box? I have permanently closed the sanctuary. That’s wonderful! What’s inside?” That’s what Gretchen wants to know in the famous jewelry box scene from Goethe’s Faust. On stage, Luc Feit and Steve Karier try their hand at each other again and again to play this scene by changing roles. Feit slips into the skin of various actresses, while Karier embodies various types of directors.
In his play, Lutz Hübner takes the audience behind the scenes of the theater and gives a humorous insight into the reality of the actor’s life – a quiet gem of theatrical art, played by two masters of their field.

Venue: Escher Theater
122, rue de l’Alzette – Esch-sur-Alzette

Saturday 25 of March – Focus Dance

10:30 | Debate: Rethinking networks and territories

Today, the performing arts sector is facing many crises related to its funding, the international mobility of works and creators and its link with audiences, in a context of climate and social emergency. This brings us to ask ourselves about the networks and territories in which we produce and distribute creations. How can we accommodate our territorial roots with our international desires and needs?

Moderation: Isabel Andreen, On the move, France

14:00 | Meeting with the young choreographic scene

The TROIS C-L – Center de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois accompanies choreographers from Luxembourg during the different stages of their professionalisation. In this perspective, the structure will invite 4 young companies to present their work, choreographic universe and projects in the form of short presentations. This privileged moment will immerse professionals, and the public wishing to discover a little more, in the creative processes of some whose proposals deserve all the attention and are very promising for the future of the choreographic scene of the Grand Duchy

Modération:
Bernard Baumgarten, TROIS C-L
Coraline Garnero, TROIS C-L
Mathis Junet, TROIS C-L
Juliette Geesmann, TROIS C-L

 

AWA – As We Are
Baptiste Hilbert & Catarina Barbosa founded the company AWA – As We Are in Luxembourg in 2016. Catarina Barbosa studied at the National Conservatory of Portugal in Lisbon and trained at the Junior Ballet of Geneva. In 2013, she joined the Compagnie Gilles Jobin and toured around the world for Quantum. Baptiste Hilbert studied at the EPSE Danse dance school in Montpellier and trained in Verve13, the company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds. He will then finish his studies at the Junior Ballet of Geneva. AWA produced since 2016, As You Want, With My Eyes. and SHOOT THE CAMERAMAN. They are also the artistic directors of the biennial dance festival “Plate-Forme AWA” in Luxembourg which will take place in 2024 for a 3rd edition.

 

Isaiah Wilson
Isaiah completed his secondary education at the Lycée des Arts et Métiers and proceeded dance at Codarts Rotterdam. As part of the program he did his one year internship with the renowned dance company ICK Amsterdam, directed by Emio Greco and Pieter C. Sholtes. He later went on to work with Jill Crovisier. He also took on a project with the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company, dancing in a piece choreographed by Saar Magal. Today, Isaiah actively collaborates with Sarah Baltzinger, he also works in film and composes music and started creating his own work signed by an interdisciplinary approach.

 

Valerie Reding
After training in classical dance, jazz and modern dance in Luxembourg, Valerie Reding studied architecture and Arts and Media in Zurich and at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Their transdisciplinary and politically engaged practice oscillates between movement, performance, photography, video, installation, drag and community event production.) Their stage works have been presented in festivals such as Zürich Tanzt, The Queer Biennial II (Los Angeles), La Fête du Slip (Lausanne) and Queer Little Lies (Luxembourg) and theaters such as Tanzhaus Zürich, Arsenic (Lausanne) , the St. Gervais Theater (Geneva), Counterpulse (San Francisco) and the Escher Theater (Luxembourg). Their photographic and performance work has been shown in galleries such as Commonwealth & Council (Los Angeles), Last Tango (Zurich) and FORMA Art Contemporain (Lausanne).

 

William Cardoso
Performer and choreographic creator, William Cardoso began dancing at the Esch-sur-Alzette music conservatory before joining EPSE Danse in Montpellier. He will then touch on the work of Clara Villalba and Olivier Dubois and engage in performative experiments with Florence Peake and Eve Stainton. In Luxembourg, he works with various choreographers such as Jill Crovisier, Giovanni Zazzera and Léa Tirabasso. At the same time, he joined the company of Fabian Thomé Duten in Madrid and later, until today, the Himherandit Productions of the artist Andreas Constantinou in Aarhus.
William also develops his own work with to date two finished pieces and another creation in the process of research.

18:00 | “Weaver” / Anne-Mareike Hess

Concept & Choreography: Anne-Mareike Hess

Performance & development: Laura Lorenzi, Julia B. Laperrière, Anne-Mareike Hess
Dramaturgy: Thomas Schaupp
Sound composition: Marc Lohr
Costume design, visual design: Mélanie Planchard, Lynn Scheidweiler
Design light: Brice Durand

Production: utopic productions
Coproduction: neimënster (LU), Weld Stockholm (SE), Skogen (SE), Center chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-Pape, director Yuval PICK, as part of the Accueil-Studio program (FR)
Support: TROIS C-L (LU) Luxembourg Choreographic Creation Center, Ministry of Culture Luxembourg, Trifolion Echternach, Fondation Indépendance, Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg
Research support: Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen von NEUSTART KULTUR

Residences: neimënster (LU), Dock 11 Berlin (DE), O espaço do Tempo (PT) , CCRN Rillieux-la-Pape

With Weaver, a dance piece for three dancers, choreographer Anne-Mareike Hess will use the image of weaving and its inherent creative potential for connection and networking and will transpose it into a contemporary choreographic reflection on today’s society – a story in which past and future, individual and collective destiny of the female body are intertwined in the dense fabric of social unity.

Anne-Mareike Hess
Anne-Mareike Hess works as a choreographer and performer. Since 2012, her works have been shown at numerous venues and festivals throughout Europe. Her first evening-long solo Warrior has been selected by AEROWAVES Twenty20. She was awarded with emerging artists prize “Stiftung zur Förderung junger Talente” (2012) and the “Danzpraïs” (2015) from the Ministry of Culture in Luxembourg. She has been an associate artist at Weld (SE) since 2016, and at Neimënster (LU) 2020 – 2023. Anne-Mareike Hess is the founder and artistic director of utopic productions.

Venue: neimënster
28, rue Münster – Luxembourg

20:00 | “Seasons” / Jean-Guillaume Weis & “Florescence in Decay” / Elisabeth Schilling

This evening brings together two Luxembourg choreographers with the Chamber Orchestra of Luxembourg under the direction of Corinna Niemeyer, with the scenographer and costume designer Mélanie Planchard and the same group of dancers.

Seasons

Choreography: Jean-Guillaume Weis
Music: Max Richter – recomposition of Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Light design: Marco Policastro
Choreography assistant: Alessandra Chirulli
Scenography & costume design: Mélanie Planchard
Orchestra: Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg

Production: Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg
Co-production: Dance Theater Luxembourg

In Seasons, created in 2019 with the Spellbound company, Jean-Guillaume Weis brings the dancers to meet Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. The choreographer bounces back on the aspect of vitality and freedom that emerges from the contrasts of this work, in order to create associations of new images.

 

Florescence in Decay

Choreography: Elisabeth Schilling
With: Marla King, Malcolm Sutherland, Giuseppe Sanniu, Giulia Cenni, Julien Ramade, Rosanne Briens, Lou Landré, Sakura Inoue, Stefane Meseguer Alves, Alisha Leyder, Sakura Inoue
Music: N.N.
Assistant choreography: Brian Caillet
Light design: Steve Demuth
Scenography & costume design: Lynn Scheidweiler
Musical direction: Corinna Niemeyer
Orchestra: Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg

Production: Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg
Co-production: Making Dances asbl

In Florescence in Decay, Elisabeth Schilling interweaves the sensibilities of dance and contemporary music to explore the sonic and dynamic textures of our world’s metamorphoses, from flowering to decaying.

Jean-Guillaume Weis
Jean-Guillaume has danced and performed with numerous ensembles, Ballet Contemporain de Bruxelles (1985-1988), the Mark Morris Dance Group in Brussels and New York (1988 to 2003), the Pina Bausch Tanztheater-Wuppertal (1994-1998) and the Tanztheater Basel under the direction of Joachim Schlömer (1998 – 2001). From 1998 he created his own choreographies focusing on the concept of dance-theatre. In 2002 he founded his own company – Dance Theater Luxembourg. In addition Jean-Guillaume has taught ballet and contemporary dance in institutions such as BAC New York, HJS Amsterdam and ArchiTanz Tokyo.

Elisabeth Schilling
Elisabeth Schilling develops transdisciplinary projects between movement, design, visual arts and music. As a dancer she has performed for almost 40 choreographers and companies such as Scottish Dance Theatre, Sasha Waltz, Trisha Brown, Clod Ensemble. As a choreographer, her works have toured in 19 countries in institutions such as Saatchi Gallery London, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Kunstfest Weimar. Since 2021, she has been an artist in residence at the TRIFOLION Echternach and since 2022 an associate artist at the Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg. Elisabeth has received awards from Dance Umbrella, Bolzano Danza and AWL Mainz and the Luxembourg Dance Award 2021.

Venue: Grand Théâtre
1, boulevard Robert Schuman – Luxembourg