Art during the start: three festivals, a creative weekend
Whether in the historic Neimënster, on the industrial site of the Nisch Melz or in the experimental rooms of the Talentlab: Luxembourg’s cultural scene is alive this weekend alive, brave and surprising. Three festivals rely on diversity, encounter and artistic risk.
New Festival Embellie celebrates the art of tomorrow in Neimënster
What is behind the walls of Neimënster? What creative processes are there? With the new Festival Embellie, the cultural center invites you to discover exactly that next Sunday: the artistic diversity, which otherwise mostly thrives behind closed doors. Embellie is a shop window for ongoing projects, visionary art and performative discoveries. Musical contributions from Englbrt and Santiago Moreno, performances and presentations by Clio van Aerde, Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Dee Meaden, Jérôme Quiqueret and Mike Bourscheid as well as exhibitions by Thierry Ardouin, Victor Guerin, Justine Blau and José Eurico Ebel can be experienced this coming weekend.
One project among many: The actress and writer Lénaïc Brulé has created a documentary fiction based on the collected testimony, documentation and her own personal history that is connected to Iran. We follow Adèle, a young woman who falls in love with a man in Luxembourg …
The choreographer Anne-Mareike Hess-an urgent poetic journey through body, identity and transformation, which will be performed on 30. and 31 May and on June 1st, is also a special framework.
Festival embellia in Neimënster, details and further information on the website of neimenster.lu.
Festival Usina25 in Dudelingen
On Friday and Saturday, the iconic terrain of the Nisch Melz in Dudelange is again transformed into a pulsating cultural center when the Usina25 festival brings some of the largest actors in the Luxembourg cultural landscape together to an unprecedented extent.
Joel Marques is on Friday in the line-up of the Usina25 festival. Photo: Marc Wilwert
On Friday there are Rea Garvey, Kamrad, Jack Curley, Joel Marques, Dutch Criminal Record, Miss Sappho, Blue-Ish, Edsun; On Saturday Deus, Fil Bo Riva, Big Special, Tuys, Edsun, Loverman, Pip Blom, Moyka, Mambo Schinki, Miss Sappho, Rave Aerobic and Hannah Ida.
Tickets (for Friday) are under www.usina.lu available.
Talentlab 2025: Already ten years old!
The Talentlab is a laboratory of the theater and dance world, a platform of exchange and mediation where dialogue, education and discoveries are in the foreground. The festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. This weekend a dance and a theater performance are in the foreground:
In « The Great Chevalier » (dance) choreographer Simone Mousset uses her fictional Ballet National Folklorique du Luxembourg, founded by the equally invented Joséphine and Claudine Bal, with their Monsieur Chevalier, a « Enfant Terrible », the historical connections between the villa Vauban and the said To appreciate national ballets.
On Friday at 6 p.m. and on Sunday at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. in Villa Vauban.
“Tragédie” by David Bobée and Éric Lacascade meanwhile tells of an aircraft crash. 16 young actors and actresses rise from the smoking fuselage on the stage. They know each other well, they studied together. But the story you tell is not about an aircraft disaster, but about the disaster world in which you live, here and now.
In the Grand Théâtre on Friday at 8 p.m. and on Sunday at 5 p.m. The entire program of the Talentlab, which continues until June 8th, can be found on the website www.theatres.lu/fr/talentlab
