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PROJECTS ESCH 2022

THE KINGDOM OF SILENCE

Artists involved: Jonathan Christoph / Rhiannon Morgan /Giovanni Zazzera

Production manager: Marine Rehm

The place

The Science Center - 1 rue John Ernest Dolibois 4573 Differdange- On the 1st floor

Between 11H30 and 13H30 - 14H and 17H30.

The courses last about 30 minutes per group.

The intervention is included in the standard entrance fee for the science center.

On 19 and 20 March, the Science Center welcomes three members of LUCODA for an original performance. In an enclosed space on the first floor of this emblematic science centre, dance and technology meet. Invited to enter a black box, the visitor, alone or in a group, is invited to experience the three spaces that make up this installation.

In this itinerant journey of discovery of technology and movement, the aim is to explore kinetic empathy, stimulate the body and make the audience aware of its capacities for movement by encouraging them to be active part of the process.

Each of the three spaces is linked to an artistic performance that offers multiple alternatives of an experience. For example, exploration around the sensation of touch will give rise to a creation that focuses on the tactile. Thus, from the interaction between humans and technology, transformations of the space will emerge… To guide the journey of the audience through this installation, sound will appear from time to time, not only sound that will be created by the spectators themselves but also that of the soundtrack.

As this installation is open to all, for the hearing impaired, there will be the possibility for them to use the "Immersive Live" waistcoats which, thanks to their vibrations connected to the sounds, offer accessibility to the music.

This project is also supported by Esch 2022 European Capital of Culture and city of Differdange

CHOREOCHROMA

Choreography: Rhiannon Morgan and Giovanni Zazzera

Interpretation: Rhiannon Morgan, Gabriele Montaruli and Giovanni Zazzera

Painting: Chantal Maquet

Video: Melting Pol and Gilles Seyler

Music: Ljubomir Nikola

Photo © Guido Bosua

Put in a museum two choreographers, a dancer, a painter, two videographers and let infuse! The Choreochroma project is a laboratory between different media and artistic vision, starting with the painting by the major Serbian modern artist Sava Šumanović, Luncheon on the Grass. Encouraged by the two European Capitals of Culture, Esch and Novi Sad, the collaborative project has developed into a project of cultural creation and exchange, exploring the links between performing arts and painting. So begins a multimedia research work, mixing dance, painting, video, music and photography, questioning their relationship to time and space, their respective differences and similarities, to allow a common form of expression to emerge. The public will be invited to participate in a multidimensional experience, a choreographic performance that is at the same time sensory, auditory and visual, inviting to explore with a contemporary perspective the works of historical heritage.

This project is created in partnership with The Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection

This project is also supported by Novi Sad 2022 and Esch 2022 European Capital of Culture, Focuna and the TROIS CL Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois

DIFFERDANCEDAYS

In collaboration with the commune of Differdange, LUCODA will create a variety of site specific performances, which will lead the audience on unexpected journeys through the commune.

Ranging from dance performances in bus stops, pop-up dance experiences, community dance workshops and multi sensorial explorations and discoveries at the Differdange Science Centre, to a grand ballroom dance evening, we share but a few of the exciting performances to expect.

This project is also supported by Esch 2022 European Capital of Culture, Ville de Differdange, Œuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte, TICE, Ministère de la Culture du Luxembourg, Science Center, WOK Differdange

Project leader: Rhiannon Morgan and Giovanni Zazzera

Artists involved: Ioanna Anousaki, Aifric Ni Chaoimh, Jonathan Christoph, Serge Daniel Kabore, Sergio Mel, Norah Noush, Rhiannon Morgan, Ileana Orofino, Thierry Raymond, Giovanni Zazzera

Photo © Giovanni Zazzera

THE VISIT

Lucoda in “The Visit”, offers two worlds to the audience; both a performative approach, with site-specific pieces, to a multi-disciplinary and digital work, with the creation of a short film which will highlight different geographical locations in the South of Luxembourg. Hence, the audience will embark on a unique journey, experiencing and being encouraged to discover new artistic perspectives, through the media of dance and film.

This project is also supported by Esch 2022 European Capital of Culture, TROIS C-L Center de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois, Ville de Dudelange, Ville de Esch-sur-Alzette, Fondation Independance by BIL, Re/Max Luxembourg agence immobilière

Choreographer & film director: Baptiste Hilbert

Choreographer & dancer: Gianfranco Celestino, Piera Jovic, Ileana Orofino

Videomaker: Pedro Barbosa

Photo © Emile Hengen

PROJECTS 2022

ACTIDance

Project leader and dance teacher : Sandra Beck, Aifric Ni Chaoimh

Storyteller: Charlotte Reuter

PROJECTS 2021

Inclusive dance workshop - April & May 2022

Lucoda is organizing the dance workshop ACTiDANSE offering movement and dance for young people with disabilities between 14 and 27 years old and their companion (e.g. parent, brother/sister, friend/ friend, reference person, etc.). They will explore the castle and the site together and will be inspired by the imagination of fairytales, princes and princesses, mystical creatures and fantastical beings

Free workshop

April 8-10 2022 at the Käercher Gréiweschlass in Koerich (1 Rue du Château, L-8385 Koerich)

May 26-28 2022 at Erliefnis Baggerweier Breicherwee L-5441 Remenschen.

Registration and more information:

• Email: sbeck.dance@gmail.com

• Telephone: +352 / 661 158 290 (French English)

• Telephone: +352 / 621 294 666 (Luxembourgish/German/French)

• Website: www.lucoda.org or www.ksf.lu.

• Facebook event

This project is also supported by Oeuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte

The Creation of the World / Reson(d)ance

14/05/21 , 15/05/21 at Kinneksbond

16/10/21 at Trois CL

Choreography : Rhiannon Morgan, based on The Creation of the World, op. 81 by Darius Milhaud Musical, External Eye/Artistic Coordinator : Davy Brun, Gianfranco Celestino, Direction : Corinna Niemeyer , Interpretation : Rhiannon Morgan, Ioanna Anousaki, Carine Baccega, Maria Cipriano, , Aifric Ni Chaiomh, 18 musicians from the Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra ,Costumes: BENU Village, Esch Production : Kinneksbond, Center Culturel Mamer, collaboration with the Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra and the TROIS CL - Center de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois, Support Œuvre Nationale de Secours Grand-Duchess Charlotte

Neistart/VOIX MOI

In this project, LUCODA wishes to seek out people of different generations within our community, creating a meeting point and a place for dialogue and

interaction. In order to do so (and respecting all Covid measures and restrictions) Lucoda will utilise new artistic creation formats via digital platforms to research and produce the work, as well as creating a safe and interesting way to experience outdoor street performance for the viewer. This project, hosted by the Commune of Sanem, will include 5 Lucoda choreographers, 10 participants ranging from teenagers to elderly members of society, and an opera singer, and offer the possibility for dance and movement to become the interface for community dialogue and development, and offer democratic arts experiences for all.

Project Leader: Aifric Ni Chaiomh

Choreographers: Ioanna Anousaki, Carine Baccega, Rhiannon Morgan, Aifric Ni Chaiomh and Giovanni Zazzera.

PROJECTS 2019-2020

#lucodastaysactive

LUCODA Active is an online initiative to reached out, stayed connected and engaged with the wider public, during the corona virus pandemic. Each day of confinement our members offered an online classes for amateurs as well as professional dancers, sharing their expertise and interest and keeping the morale of our communities in Luxembourg and beyond positive,healthy, fit and inspired.

TANDEM European Network

23-26/09/2019

Rhiannon and Giovanni visited Novi Sad in Serbia from the 20-24/10 in light of their Tandem Partnership with the Pavle Beljanski Museum. All are happy to announce that the title of this project is “ChoreoChroma” and will see LUCODA collaborate with an extraordinary artistic team compo composed of the Artist Painter: Chantal Maquet (L), Sound Composer Ljubomir Nikolic (S), as well as with the dance students from Novi Sad.

The Bitter Years: Dis/Engage

18.07.19

A choreographic exploration by LUCODA in partnership with Trois CL.

This performance is an interactive experience to the audience

where by each audience member is offered the possibility to share one word to describe the works of Edward Steinchen. These words served as a starting point for the performers, musician and audience members to create a framework of non-verbal dialogue whereby human interactions, relationships and dynamics are explored.

Concept: Rhiannon Morgan

Artistic Coordinator: Gianfranco Celestino

Sound Composition/Installation: Rajivan Ayyappan

Performed by: 5-7 Dance Artists of LUCODA