For this winter edition, the feminine is in the spotlight with 3 pieces by 3 women choreographers and an exhibition by Cristina Picco, all dealing with various and shared subjects.

Umwamdlung – Anne Martin

> Work in progress

“What is left?”
This is Anne Martin’s primary question. What is left after all these years of dance, music, love, life? What is left until the end? Until this last breath of life?
Umwandlung is a desire to look even further, to go deeper, to spread this never-extinguished inner flame, this imperious desire to dance, here and now, this dance at 68.

Choregraphy, interpretation : Anne Martin | Performance, drawing : Gilles Nicolas | Lights : Rémi Nicolas | Costumes : Julia von Leliwa | Sound : Thibault Cohade | Musics : naissance d’une salamandre de Ivo Malec (cloches proches et lointaines), alambic, pompe à eau, glas romain, chute de neige, chant orthodoxe, feu d’artifice | Supports : CCN de Rillieux la Pape direction Yuval Pick, Tanzstation Wuppertal, SACD, CND Lyon, TROIS C-L – Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois, Montpellier Danse

INVASION(S) Love me_ I’ll let you in. Anyway – Hannah Ma

> Work in progress

Hannah Ma offers to develop the act of invasion from a feminist and post-migration perspective.
INVASION(S) Love me_ I’ll let you in. Anyway focuses on the body as a witness to political change in our multi-migratory world. It is a meditation on the past and a future filled with hope and tenderness.
Micro- and macro-cosmos blend together to depict a rich and sensitive choreographic explosion.

Choregraphy, artistic direction & design : Hannah Ma | Dramaturgy : Pink Beast Kills | Composition & music : Nora Amin, Sebastian M. Purfürst, Cloudscollective | Voice installation : Nora Amin | Video installation : Pink Beast Kills, Sebastian Purfürst | Text : Nora Amin, Pink Beast Kills, N.N. | Co-creative choreographic performance : The People United : Ritsuko Matsuoka, Sergio Mel, Maher Abdul Moaty, Christin Reinartz, Valentina Zappa, Nora Zrika | Co-creative performance text : Nora Zrika | Content production: *Wicked** Witch | Special guest : Thobile Maphanga | Production : hannahmadance/ Tufa Tanz e.V. Trier | Executive production : Studio Marshmallow, The People United asbl, Luxembourg | 2023 coproduction : Théâtre National du Luxembourg, Hannah Ma gUG Berchtesgaden, Jomba Contemporary Dance Experience | Partners : TROIS C-L – Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois, LEM-Studios Berlin, Haus Noir, Kiteboarding Magazine

VÉNUS ANATOMIQUE – Sarah Baltzinger

> Work in progress

Sarah Baltzinger, the third and final choreographer of the evening, exposes contemporary mythologies around the feminine and its alienation. Art history, feminist movements, religion and pop culture will feed the movements of the 5 women on stage.
VÉNUS ANATOMIQUE wishes to study the bodies and the multiplicity of the feminine in order to deconstruct our gaze in a universe where brutality and sublime respond to each other.

Concept & choregraphy : Sarah Baltzinger | Creation & interpretation : Fanny Colliard, Chiara Corbetta, Shynna Kalis, Marie Lévénez & Océane Robin | Sound composition : Guillaume Jullien | Assistance & rehearsal : Brian CA | Dramaturgy : Amandine Truffy | Choreographic & external view : Isaiah Wilson | Production : Émile Deutsch | Light design and technical management : Thibault Dubourg | Stage design : Manon Terranova | Diffusion : Alexandre Vitale | Photography and video : Bohumil Kostohryz & Brian CA | Partners : Grand Théâtre, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, L’Arsenal, Cité Musicale-Metz, Compagnie La Baraka, Chapelle Chorégraphique d’Annonay, Théâtre des Cordeliers, Annonay, TROIS C-L – Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois, CND, Centre National de la Danse de Lyon, ministère de la Culture, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, Festival, Fait D’Hiver, Paris, Kultur LX | Art Council Luxembourg, Ville de Metz
The company is financed by the Luxembourg Ministry of Culture as a structuring grant and by the City of Metz as a development grant.

MERCI – Cristina Picco

> Exhibition

On the one hand an embroidered sheet, an almost ritual object in flashy colours. Embroidery is a common practice that is often neglected because it requires a lot of time. For three hours, needle and thread in hand, going over the features of each face, Cristina Picco’s attention goes to the person being embroidered, to the memories of situations experienced together. Embroidery, a gesture that allows us to take the time to pay tribute to the encounter with the other. The second element of the installation is a choreography inspired by the gestures that are used to express gratitude in many latitudes. Expressing gratitude, a ritual of sociability threatened with trivialisation, but far from being banal.