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Saison 2023 - 2024
April 2024
Theater
Zabou Breitman has transformed Raymond Queneau’s masterpiece into a musical comedy full of passion and fantasy, like young Zazie herself.
Theater
An odyssey through the lives of our ancestors and their suffering, in order to heal the wounds of contemporary society and to finally move forward together !
March 2024
Theater
George Dandin ou le Mari confondu, Molière’s contribution to the Grand Divertissement, has been transposed into a hallucinatory and carnivalesque world that cheerfully borders on musica…
Theater
At the intersection between performance, installation, concert, cinema and theatre, The Employees is a comprehensive work that redefines the boundaries of theatre.
Theater
An elegy to the power of art and its power to save
Theater
The story of two actors confined to their homes, haunted by their overwhelming desire to be on stage, who tirelessly continue to perform in order to affirm their desire to live !
Theater
Guillemette Laurent and Yoann Blanc revisit Ibsen’s classic with a light and fresh touch, accompanied by twenty amateurs, like a new way of producing theatre.
Expositions
February 2024
Theater
Bobo Jelčić, in close collaboration with his actors, explores life through art, in which reality and imagination merge.
Theater
Il n’y a rien dans ma vie qui montre que je suis moche intérieurement
From21 Feb on24 Feb 2024
Salle de l’Œil vert
Tragicomic theatre of objects, in which the second degree and dark humour are combined to clearly question femicide in our era.
Pays de Danses
Dance
The most original and unique creation at the 76th edition of the Festival d’Avignon, full of passion and humour, rounds out the Pays de Danses with a bang !
Pays de Danses
Pays de Danses
Pays de Danses
Pays de Danses
Pays de Danses
Pays de Danses
Pays de Danses
Pays de Danses
Expositions
Play with me
From3 Feb on16 Feb 2024
B3 – Centre de ressources et de créativité de la Province de Liège
Pays de Danses
January 2024
Pays de Danses
Pays de Danses
Pays de Danses
Pays de Danses
Dance
A powerful corps de ballet, comprised of eight women who share the stage to joyfully confront their creative singularity !
Dance
Theater
A work with singular language – written like a poem – in which people sometimes sing to overcome their fear of communicating.
Theater
Sophocles’ ancient myth, inscribed at the heart of our times, combines power games and familial silences, reimagined around a modern and revitalised Jocasta.
Theater
A show presented at school, and an artistic offering that tackles the sensitive issues of suicide and bereavement among young people.
Theater
A vertiginous dive into the heart of an unusual subject.
December 2023
Theater
Theater
A burlesque and musical piece with Natalie Dessay, where the pathetic and moving side of pseudo-stars searching for success is revealed as the play proceeds.
Theater
An ode to human life and its evolution, tinged with magic and absurdity, which leads us happily towards the future.
Theater
An ode to human life and its evolution, tinged with magic and absurdity, which leads us happily towards the future.
Theater
An unforgettable ballet for seven dancers with singular identities, who speak with a single voice.
Theater
A theatrical journey to the heart of the world of childhood, like so many potential worlds, in order to (re)learn how to see through their eyes and alter our fixed worlds.
November 2023
Theater
The story of life, told from the very beginning until the present day with humour, poetry and a dash of seriousness.
Theater
An introductory, festive tale to celebrate the joys of life and the theatre!
Theater
In a Vietnamese restaurant in the heart of Paris, where songs are sung to keep memories alive, the wounds of exile emerge, demonstrating the full power and tenderness of family ties.
Dance
The choreographic autobiography of one of the greatest contemporary directors, as reinterpreted by Ayelen Parolin.
Theater
A hilarious stage play that borrows from the sacred, dirty songs, Italian cinema, Mylène Farmer and Monty Python and offers a unique creation with an absurd and joyous sense of humour!
Theater
The portrait of a full life and a whole woman, recounted from birth to death, through her confessions about love.
Theater
A timeless fable about an eternal debt, inspired by Anglo-Saxon psychological thrillers and the Congolese art of storyteller.
Theater
La Dernière Génération ou Les 120 Journées de Sodome
From5 Nov on10 Nov 2023
Salle de la Grande Main
The theatrical and film version of 120 Days of Sodom, orchestrated by the master of realistic theatre, which questions our relationship with normality.
Expositions
October 2023
Dance
Dance
We regret to inform you that the show has been cancelled.
Dance
Theater
A touching and incisive look at the fantasies and mirages of the seventh art, freely inspired by the film of the same name by Luchino Visconti.
Theater
The story of a free, independent woman from the perspective of her son.
Theater
The stage adaptation of Andreï Zviaguintsev’s masterpiece, which combines elements of thriller and social drama.
September 2023
Theater
Racine’s classic tragedy in its original language, softened by the musical accompaniment of a quartet on stage.
Expositions
What if you almost won the lottery?
Dance
Through twenty dancers on stage, Christos Papadopoulous draws his inspiration from the natural world and his ability to communicate wordlessly in order to create a new, collective approach to creat…
Expositions
Theater
Dance
An event dedicated to street dance, which highlights the city and its artists.
Saison 2022 - 2023
June 2023
Theater
May 2023
Dance
April 2023
Circus
Theater
Theater
Theater
Theater
Theater
Dance
Theater
March 2023
Theater
Theater
Young public
Theater
Theater
Theater
Theater
Theater
Theater
February 2023
Theater
Theater
Dance
Any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones
The11 February 2023
Salle de la Grande Main
Dance
Theater
January 2023
Theater
Theater
Theater
Theater
Theater
December 2022
Theater
Young public
Dance
Dance
Theater
SHOW CANCELLED
Theater
Dance
Theater
November 2022
Theater
Dance
Dance
Concerts
Forum Sans Transition !
Forum Sans Transition !
Forum Sans Transition !
Forum Sans Transition !
Dance
Young public
Forum Sans Transition !
Forum Sans Transition !
Dance
Forum Sans Transition !
October 2022
Theater
Krystian Lupa is an all-round theatre creative who has been the recipient of a number of awards.
Theater
This fascinating show, which is part play and part documentary, speaks to the responsibility of telling stories, the limitations and the fight against indifference and being forgotten, which is rea…
Theater
Theater
Tonight, he wants to talk to you about love. The love we judge, the love we censor.
Theater
September 2022
Dansathon
The Théâtre de Liège hosted the Dansathon – the first international dance Hackathon – in 2018 and 2021.
Expositions
Theater
Hedda – Variation contemporaine d’après l’Hedda Gabler d’Ibsen
From18 Sep on28 Sep 2022
Salle de la Grande Main
Starting from the work by Henrik Ibsen, Aurore Fattier’s Hedda immerses us in the last days of Hedda Gabler’s rehearsals.
Theater
Dance
Saison 2021 - 2022
June 2022
Theater
In recent years, stand-up has continued to evolve and can be discovered on stage, in a café or even through the screen of your computer or smartphone.
May 2022
Circus
Annual Gala of the Amis du Théâtre de Liège
April 2022
Theater
Two sisters, Anna and Ester, return to Sweden with Johan, Anna’s young son.
Theater
After the acclaimed creations Vangelo and La Gioia, Théâtre de Liège brings Pippo Delbono back to Liège in 2022
March 2022
Theater
In 1938, in order to fill his coffers and regain prestige, the avant-garde poet Jean Cocteau converted to the popular theatre, the tricks and stars of which seemed able to capture the audience that…
Dance
As part of Piano Day, the iconic Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker presents her latest piece, accompanied by pianist Pavel Kolesnikov, as sole performer.
EUROPALIA
INSTALLATION
EUROPALIA
EUROPALIA is focused on this invention, which is a significant source of inspiration for the arts.
EUROPALIA
Dancer Mohamed Toukabri and graphic artist Eyes-B will meet you in their alternative photo booth at Liège-Guillemins train station.
Young public
Theater
At dawn on 4 November 1956, Soviet tanks entered Budapest to suppress the Hungarian insurrection.
Corps de Textes
Corps de Textes – Festival de littérature à travers la ville
From14 Mar on20 Mar 2022
Théâtre de Liège
Theater
Unlike her husband, Winnie Madikizela Mandela aggressively disturbed her contemporaries by refusing to forget the sins of the past and her mistrust for the reunified, rainbow nation.
Theater
Theater
In 2007, the bodies of a family were found hanged in their home in Pas-de-Calais.
February 2022
Theater
After By heart and Sopro, Tiago Rodrigues returns with The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, accompanied by the sublime Isabelle Huppert.
Theater
Dance
Festival Pays de Danses 2022
Pays de Danses
Through this ceremony, in which joy is tinged with melancholy and sensuality, Lara Barsacq evokes the values of contemporary eco-feminism, urging us to take care of the living from this moment on.
Pays de Danses
The energy is communicative, the lighting remarkable, the virtuosity total and the joy of being together absolute.
Pays de Danses
The Pays de Danses 2022 festival will welcome the final presentation of their projects, after a year of research and fine-tuning.
Pays de Danses
Gabriella Iacono and Gregory Grosjean trace the history of dance throughout the evolution of mankind, in an admirable blend of painting, music, photography, footwork, hand dancing, finger dancing a…
Pays de Danses
The Pays de Danses 2022 festival will welcome the final presentation of their projects, after a year of research and fine-tuning.
Pays de Danses
The Pays de Danses 2022 festival will welcome the final presentation of their projects, after a year of research and fine-tuning.
Pays de Danses
The Pays de Danses 2022 festival will welcome the final presentation of their projects, after a year of research and fine-tuning.
Pays de Danses
Choreographer Anton Lachky presents young audiences with a sensitive, physical and carnal experience, as well as concepts and ideas that we must consider in terms of the world of today.
Pays de Danses
PREMIÈRE BELGE
Pays de Danses
This baroque, fanciful, iconoclastic and enjoyable fable, which takes place under the blow of a wind machine, depicts an indescribable freakshow that dances on the edge of chaos.
Pays de Danses
This powerfully poetic and creative duet, which requires a great deal of physical intensity, introduces us to a world that lies somewhere between an imagination steeped in symbolism and a sombre re…
Pays de Danses
Unlike the over-the-top sentimentality of some stars saying farewell, Ioannis Mandafounis takes his bow with emotion, humour and a disarming level of simplicity.
January 2022
Pays de Danses
This fiery show exudes youth, emotion and humour. Olé!
Pays de Danses
Romain Bertet et Marie-Laure Caradec nous immergent dans l’imaginaire de l’incandescence des corps et de l’ardeur des désirs.
Pays de Danses
This delicate and inhabited duo offers us a love song to life and, despite conventions, to the fragile beauty of aging bodies.
Pays de Danses
RUUPTUUR calls on mythical and futuristic figures – half-divine, half-plastic female cyborg centaurs.
Pays de Danses
As the title suggests, life courses through everything!
Pays de Danses
Set to an electro-acoustic piece by Daniel Perez Hajdu of Cuba, the work stuns with its radical nature, its rigour, its dazzling beauty and the dancers’ excellence.
Pays de Danses
Within an ecosystem that is recreated on a stage covered in moss and through remarkable lighting variations, Belgian choreographer Louise Vanneste experiments with the sensory listening of those wh…
Pays de Danses
In the heart of a set designed by Chevalier-Masson, the six dancers, including Thomas Hauert himself, cohabit with Thirteen Harmonies, a work for violin and keyboard by John Cage.
Pays de Danses
Balloon Bandit evokes the joy of imagination, the pleasure of dancing, the pain of feeling abandoned, the happiness of being united and the giddiness of movement and leaves us amazed.
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Pays de Danses
Quiet brings together a fiercely masculine quartet that showcases a complex emotional landscape in which aggression, compassion, confusion and desire create an intense dynamic.
Dance
Dance
OPENING
Festival Pays de Danses 2022
Pays de Danses
PRE-OPENING of PAYS DE DANSES
Theater
In this production of Tartuffe, Yves Beaunesne removes the main character from his role as imposter and fanatic, in order to depict a fascinating Casanova in search of the absolute.
Theater
In this piece, author and actress Geneviève Damas tackles the idea of the traditional couple and how to exist in a world for two.
December 2021
Theater
Alessandro Baricco is de auteur en regisseur van Smith & Wesson. Samen met actrices Lio en Lou Chauvain, evenals onze landgenoten Laurent Caron en Christophe Lambert, zet de Italiaanse…
Theater
Jojo is an average boy and he has disappeared.
Theater
Caroline Guiela Nguyen writes and directs a fantastical tale, the second chapter in a cycle of works based around the term ‘brotherhood’, from which the adventure takes its name.
November 2021
Theater
At the heart of a futuristic fable that takes place in 2120, Selma Alaoui puts her finger on the pulse of the anguish and hope that the future arouses in us.
IMPACT
An unusual artist, Franck Vigroux explores the moment immediately after the collision of a car accident, the moment when time seems to stand still and dilate, the moment when the spirit se…
Theater
By peeling off the layers of fantasised intimacy, she invites us to overturn our beliefs and release a new… pornographic imagination.
Expositions
Dans le cadre du Festival PAYS DE DANSES
Theater
With La Grotte, Clément Papachristou creates and directs his first dramatic text.
Theater
Ouragan recounts the story of an absurd, but initiatory, sleepless night.
Dance
IMPACT
This is the story of a magician who realises that machines do his job better than him, that algorithms are faster than his brain and that software is more accurate than his intuitio…
IMPACT
This show without actors narrates the story of the Parisian apartment that writer Samuel Beckett lived in with his partner, Suzanne, during the Second World War.
IMPACT
Forêt is een innerlijke, droomachtige reis, een zintuiglijke en poëtische opera.
IMPACT
_jeanne_dark_ is the Instagram handle of Jeanne, a sixteen-year-old from a strict Catholic family who is bullied at school and obsessed with her virginity.
Expositions
Guillame Marmin’s installation is a matrix of 120 LED projectors, which were specifically designed to emit straight beams that sculpt the space and draw moving architectures.
IMPACT
The Barcelona-based company Agrupación Señor Serrano manipulates live videos, models, miniatures and drones around a reproduction of Mount Everest.
IMPACT
Choreographer and director Blanci Li invites you to an incredible show, 35 minutes of which take place in virtual reality.
October 2021
Theater
The Aventures de Zelinda et Lindoro is a romantic comedy that hinges on the contradictions inherent to love.
Theater
The recipient of the Grand Prix from the Académie Française and winner of several Molière and César awards, Jean-Claude Grumberg is an exceptional storyteller.
Theater
Theater
Nicolas is paying for his shopping at a supermarket check-out. As he cannot find his loyalty card when asked for it, he is accosted by the guard. Filled with panic, he flees armed with a leek.
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Theater
The British playwright and radio presenter Alan Bennett tells us about his incredible cohabitation with the homeless woman Miss Shepherd.
Theater
École des Maîtres is a theatrical training programme dedicated to young actors who are already working professionally.
Theater
Tatjana Pessoa explores her grandmother’s library, which she does not know much about, in the suburbs of Lisbon.
September 2021
Expositions
Theater
Kingdom recounts the story of two families who left Europe to live on the borders of the East Siberian taiga region, in order to live in harmony with nature.
Dance
August 2021
Festival Scènes d’été
Festival Scènes d’été
Festival Scènes d’été
Festival Scènes d’été
Festival Scènes d’été
Saison 2020 - 2021
June 2021
Dance
A member of the iconic French hip-hop group Wanted Posse, Ousmane Sy developed the contemporary Afro House Spirit style, which is steeped in the heritage of traditional Afr…
May 2021
Theater
Young public
It seems clear that there is a natural affinity between the child and the philosopher, both of whom are astonished by the world and question it.
April 2021
Festival Emulation
The gods transform Medusa into a monster that has the power to petrify men who look at her.
Festival Emulation
Four actors, each speaking in their mother tongue, present a conference on the survey they have dedicated to the far right and youth in Europe.
Festival Emulation
(Il)legitimate play by a son of colonialism.
Festival Emulation
Every day, Julie and Cédric receive letters from men and women who are suffering from this new generational malaise, which is caused by the anxiety of seeing humans destroy the earth.
Festival Emulation
In this auto-fictional performance, a young woman doubts, questions and exposes the meandering paths of her desires.
March 2021
Theater
With emotions, lucidity and quirky, surrealist humour, a calm little woman tells us about the world she lives in.
Theater
The Portuguese author Tiago Rodrigues directs eight flamboyant actors who tell the story of a family who kills fascists.
Dance
Clément and Guillaume Papachristou are twins. One is an actor; the other has CP (cerebral palsy) and goes to a specialised care home every day.
Theater
Theater
Questioning strangers and relatives, the ethnologist Jean Rouch accompanied by sociologist Edgar Morin takes us back to the summer of 1960 to reveal the daily life, aspirations and injuries of men …
Corps de Textes
Dance
Lara Barsacq
Theater
The director Juliette Navis draws loose inspiration from the writings of Belgian economist Bernard Lietaer.
February 2021
Theater
In this choral work devoted to contemporary Algeria, the writer and poetess Sonia Chiambretto pursues her collection of testimonies and archival documents, which she kneads together into a raw, mus…
Theater
The story of Irina Lucidi is unfortunately famous in Italy. One day, this woman’s two six-year-old twin daughters are taken from her.
Theater
Loosely adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s novel Mademoiselle Else, Jeanne Dandoy’s play immerses us in the mental labyrinth of a young fifteen-year-old girl.
Theater
Laurent Delvert enthusiastically explores the world of Alfred de Musset and directs Camille and Perdican, two young people whose engagement is announced. But the two fiancés resist.
Theater
The new text by Ismaël Saidi, which he performs solo, narrates a story from the past.
January 2021
Musique
Staged by Lisaboa Houbrechts, the new creation by the composer and saxophonist Fabrizio Cassol draws its essence from Monteverdi’s madrigals, which were composed between 1587 and 1638.
Dance
DD Dorvillier has been developing her artistic work in New York since 1989, before moving to France in 2010.
Dance
The enfant terrible of choreography, Marlene Monteiro Freitas holds international appeal thanks to her language of overflowing vitality, her taste for excess and the wealth of he…
Dance
Thomas Hauert returns with a bold offering.
December 2020
Theater
In this youthful play, we find all the talent of Georges Feydeau on display, illustrated by his virtuosity with language, his sequences of misunderstandings and his implacable comic dynamics.
Theater
Professor Pompon is an expert in questions.
Theater
Paris, 1897. Edmond Rostand is still nothing more than a penniless, unknown poet.
Dance
In 1989, Claudio Bernardo watched the last performance of the play Les Troyennes (The Trojans), directed by Thierry Salmon and set to music composed in ancient Gr…
November 2020
Young public
IMPACT 2020 becomes 100% DIGITAL!
IMPACT
APPLICATION IOS & ANDROID – GRATUIT
IMPACT
Theater
Rémi De Vos has often observed the latent violence and total absurdity of hierarchical relationships in the workplace environment. Kadoc humorously depicts the struggle between social ins…
Theater
Normand is a regular little boy, but he likes to wear dresses.
IMPACT
LIVE PARTICIPATORY SHOW
IMPACT
IMPACT 2020 becomes 100% DIGITAL!
Dance
SPECTACLE FILMÉ – GRATUIT
Theater
In collaboration with the playwright Thomas Depryck, the director Antoine Laubin has intelligently crafted a flowing play that adapts the five films tha…
October 2020
Theater
The Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues makes Cristina Vidal – the actual prompter of the National Lisbon Theatre that he directs – the centre of his play Sopro (Breath).
Theater
Tiago Rodrigues recounts the story of his grandmother, Candida, who, before becoming totally blind, asked him to choose a text that she could learn by heart.
Theater
Director of stage and screen Claude Schmitz continues his artistic and human adventure with a group of actors from diverse backgrounds.
Theater
With refreshing energy and valiant hopefulness, the Pop-Up company encourages us to reconsider compromises that we may find anodyne, the cowardice that we succumb to, the head-in-the-sand behaviour…
Saison 2019 - 2020
June 2020
Theater
In 1936, a new conservative, anti-liberal, anti-Marxist and racist generation, the dream of a unified Reich.
May 2020
Dance
Theater
Theater
April 2020
Theater
Theater
Questioning strangers and relatives, the ethnologist Jean Rouch accompanied by sociologist Edgar Morin takes us back to the summer of 1960 to reveal the daily life, aspirations and injuries of men …
March 2020
Theater
Lecture
FOCUS QUÉBEC
Theater
Festival Atlas Of Transitions
Due to travel difficulties caused by the recent epidemic, the Teatr Powszechny canceled its visit.
Theater
With Le chef est chef même en caleçon, Dominique Bela questions freedom of expression and highlights, with humour, the discrepancy between the Europe of Human Rights and how it treats mi…
Festival Atlas Of Transitions
This growing archive, this map, this site named NECROPOLIS is stretching in all directions across space and time, interrelating the mythologies, histories, geographies, movements, and anatomies of …
Young public
Young audience show from 6 years old
Festival Atlas Of Transitions
In the performance we see – apart from Adel Darwish himself – three actors from Backa Teater, two professional dancers and five young people who used to live somewhere else but now live in Goth…
Expositions
His work is mainly related to current topics and in last years he focused on the immigration crisis in Europe, producing his first annd still ongoing long term project “Harraga”, that in 2017…
Theater
Theater
Almost twenty years ago, the director Guy Theunissen worked with artists from sub-Saharan Africa.
February 2020
Dance
Dance
Organisch en gevoelig..
Dance
This fluorescent, pop and vaporous solo, which is close to NOH theatre (a traditional Japanese theatre) escapes us and grabs us as though we were dreaming, driving us wild.
Pays de Danses
Drawing on a variety of effects – both visual and sound effects – a string of joyous and theatrical speculations and some playful criticism, the foursome depicts humanity while savouring all of…
Dance
It is an undefinable moment between the exposed body and stereotypical design, between farce and horror.
Dance
Scandalous and effortless.
Dance
Een scheppende transhumance met meeslepende muziek, een opaalachtige scenografie en een hypergevoelige dans komen samen in één ademtocht, de zoektocht naar de absolute schoonheid!
Dance
Tribal and contagious energy in a microcosm of humanity!
Pays de Danses
Along with the Reunionnese krumpers on the programme, Pays de Danses and the Théâtre de Liège are hosting a ‘battle’ for the first time.
Dance
Young public
Simply radiant!
Dance
Burning – Je ne mourus pas et pourtant nulle vie ne demeura
The8 February 2020
Latitude 50 / Marchin
Door middel van een overweldigende choreografie met circustechnieken houdt Julien Fournier hier een vlammend betoog!
Dance
A highlight of the festival.
Dance
An impetuous human abundance that is sensitive and dressed up!
Dance
An act about unveiling, which redesigns the boundaries of the choreographic outlook.
Dance
Art that pulsates and a show that is undefinable, unpredictable and unexpected!
Dance
A reconnection with life!
Dance
Young public
Gentle and mischievous!
January 2020
Dance
OPENING SHOW PAYS DE DANSES
Dance
A celebration of the body and spirit, which liberate themselves from imposed models!
Dance
For its eighth edition, brings Portugal to the stage
Dance
EUREGIONAL OPENING PAYS DE DANSES
Pays de Danses
A compelling and jubilant short film by the visual artist and director Clément Cogitore.
Theater
A political exercise in the manner of Brecht’s didactic works, Žižek proposes three possible ends to the tragedy, leaving the public free to decide the fate of a contemporary Antigone.
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Theater
A restless spring that echoes his inner turmoil. Here is the starting point of this story, which unfolds on both sides of the Mediterranean and is interwoven with childhood memories.
Theater
This is the story of a scorching summer.
December 2019
Theater
Theater
Dating back to the 19th century, this work in verse by Edmond Rostand has delighted all generations for more than one hundred and twenty years.
Young public
In every home, the children adopt a space. For the Alula company, it is the cupboard under the stairs that is chosen as the ideal place.
Theater
The American director Robert Wilson staged Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinoceros in Craiova at the invitation of the Marin Sorescu National Theatre.
Theater
De la sensation d’élasticité lorsqu’on marche sur des cadavres
The13 December 2019
Salle de la Grande Main
A homage to the oeuvre and genious of Eugène Ionesco.
Theater
Comedian, director and teacher at ESACT Liège, Frédéric Ghesquière began his career by playing the role of Scapin in Les Fourberies which we owe to Molière.
Theater
Linda Vista (“belle vue” in Spanish) is the name of a district overlooking San Diego, close to the Mexican border.
Theater
The Karyatides, stages two actor-manipulators working with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
November 2019
Theater
What is Europe?
Circus
In this dreamlike interlude, the elements become play partners in a being searching for the infinity and truth.
Dance
From the global avant-garde of the audio-visual scene, the Japanese artist Hiroaki Umeda combines choreographic writing, computer code, sound and visual composition in a kind of global language.
Dance
Dancers Florencia Demestri and Samuel Lefeuvre act on the realisation that the omnipresence of technology has hijacked our perception of reality.
Theater
This Belgian piece tells us of the initiation journey of two children discovering parallel and invisible worlds.
Dance
In a Belgian first, Rhizomatiks Research, a group of Japanese artists and engineers, including world-renowned designer Daito Manabe, in collaboration with ELEVENPLAY dancers led by choreographer MI…
Dance
In autumn 2019, the 3 winning projects are revealed to the public in Lyon, London and Liège as part of the IMPACT festival.
Theater
Combining theater and science, Cerebrum reveals the strange phenomena created by our brain.
IMPACT
Theater
The shrewd director Yves Beaunesne, surrounded by a troupe of high-flying actors, works with the sublime verses and the sumptuous style of Victor Hugo.
Expositions
Wind Avatar is part of a vast trilogy on which the American researcher (MIT & School of the Art Institute de Chicago) based in Brussels, Ahmed Haseeb, works.
Theater
In The promise of the dawn, Romain Gary recounts his past not as he lived it but as he perceives it retrospectively in light of what he has become.
Theater
A show that is both realistic and dreamlike, Lavomatickx could be seen as a film in which a model citizen, a fugitive conspirator, a woman in distress and a homeless cowboy meet.
October 2019
IMPACT
Troisième édition
Theater
Gurshad Shaheman went in search of testimonials.
Others events
Morel takes sketches from Raymond Devos as we take from the repertoire.
Dance
A major figure in contemporary dance, Bruno Beltrão develops a rigorous and jubilant choreographic language, focusing on questioning and enriching the codes of street dance.
Theater
Issue de deux générations de frituriers, tout destinait la petite Julie à régner sur une de nos fiertés nationales.
Theater
Thomas Ostermeier presents a French adaptation of Return to Reims, a major event for the sociologist Didier Eribon.
Theater
Scheduled in March 2019, a work in progress of Out of the dark, already engaged us in a more than documented reflection on the reality of migratory flows and the delicate funerary…
September 2019
Theater
The third piece of the great actor Vincent Lécuyer (Tristesses, La Trève 2 …)
Theater
After the huge success of Blockbuster, the Collectif Mensuel tells us the story of a sinking island in Oceania.
Famille
The urban picnic by Théâtre de Liège
Theater
Dominique Roodthooft envisioned Patua Nou based on the tradition of the patachitras.
Theater
At the crossroads of documentary theatre and the musical and visual experience.
Saison 2018 - 2019
May 2019
Young public
It is indeed a young Princess, a rival in spite of her stepmother, so it is about, but … But, it is Elizabeth, the “wicked” who tells us her version of the facts humorously.
April 2019
Lecture
Literature festival around the city.
March 2019
Theater
Coming from the distant 16th century, L’Heptaméron is the last piece written by Marguerite d’Angoulême, Queen of Navarre and sister of Francis I.
Festival Emulation
Ridiculous dialogue dotted with dark humour.
Festival Emulation
It is already time for the eighth edition of Festival Émulation, a vital professional lever made available by young theatre performers from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
Festival Emulation
({:}) explores the unique geography of the female sex.
Festival Emulation
In the style of a dream-like story, Quelques rêves oubliés by Oriza Hirata tells the story of a former popular singer, her young assistant and her manager, all three pushed into their re…
Festival Emulation
Agnès Limbos and Simon Wauters give a beat, material and a voice to these souls abandoned in the cogs of hell.
Festival Emulation
If the murder of François Ferdinand in Sarajevo was a show, the visible part of the Iceberg?
Festival Emulation
A nightmare with the smell of chlorine and blood, a modern comedy inspired by Charles Burns, David Cronenberg and… Free Willy.
Festival Emulation
In an original piece by Simon Thomas, Tristan and Marceline roam in an empty space reminiscent of a labyrinth.
Theater
Atlas of Transitions – a new geography for a multicultural Europe – is one of the international projects chosen by the Creative Europe programme.
Theater
A member of Collectif Mariedl, the producer Coline Struyf, inspired by the narrative structure of the graphic novel Ici by Richard McGuire, tells us the story of a place.
February 2019
Young public
In his life just like at school, nothing happens to him or not much and no-one pays him any attention.
Theater
Myriam Muller gives us a powerful staging of Breaking the Waves.
Theater
In this universe that he knows well, Warlikowski injects new, recently proven, emotions and brings out the disillusioned smile of Levin.
Theater
Written by Duncan MacMillan, adapted and staged by Françoise Walot, this story, as funny as it is moving, is that of a young boy whose mother makes a big mistake when he is seven.
Theater
With the participation of the musician Hervé Rigaud and three absolutely outstanding actors, Jean Boillot uses the lively and funny piece by Jean-Marie Piemme and produces a spirited, choral and m…
Theater
From different countries, Monica, Charlie, Amy and Christophe, young people with broken dreams, meet in New York
Theater
Five actors and actresses – a French, a Belgian, a Romanian, a Slovenian, a German – come together to perform a show, all speaking a different language and having nothing in common.…
Theater
There are many male characters in Molière who, haunted by the fear of women, show sickly jealousy, unbridled possessiveness and fear of being deceived.
Musique
A Belgian actor, rapper and poet of Congolese origin, Pitcho conceived L’expérience Pi.
January 2019
Theater
Written in 1960 by the Irishman Samuel Beckett, the piece Oh les beaux jours (Happy Days) is a masterpiece with the language, between apparent simplicity and great…
Theater
In machinists’ jargon, faire la salade means restoring order to the stage turned upside down by the events of the previous day.
Dance
Discovered around Lošinj, a Croatian island, the Apoxyomenos was treated mercifully by the sea for two millenia.
Theater
Amalgamated with history and not hiding anything of the intimate, this hybrid scenic piece oscillates between theatre, performance and sound installation.
Theater
A questioning of the world’s hidden face to, perhaps, come out of eternity…
Dance
Avant-garde Italian artist, performer, choreographer and producer Alessandro Sciarroni develops a hybrid piece combining visual arts and living art.
Theater
Gwen Aduh is responsible for the staging and gives us an honest comedy that gives us all a boost.
December 2018
Theater
Gwen Aduh is responsible for the staging and gives us an honest comedy that gives us all a boost.
Young public
In the theatre’s grand Noël
Theater
A story, beautiful because impossible, to live as to understand.
Theater
With Brussels as the muse, KVS and La Monnaie join forces to breathe new life into this timeless masterpiece.
Dance
Within the confines of dance and theatre, the new investigation by Nicole Mossoux and Patrick Bonté targets the toxic intrigues affecti…
Young public
Young public
This theatre piece glows in the subtleties of its art and honours Hugo.
Young public
A breath of light!
November 2018
Young public
In the heat of Seville, we find ourselves at the heart of a love story between the soldier, Don José and Carmen, the bohemian.
Young public
Flaubert is here!
Young public
Les Karyatides is fun and full of poetry.
Theater
Léandre and Octave’s revolt against their despotic and miserable fathers, their search for financial independence, their desire to choose their fate and life partner freely, echoes the uphea…
Dance
The dancer and choreographer Ayelen Parolin describes her new creation as a quintet of four dancers and one musician.
Theater
Following the critical and public success of Tristesses, Anne-Cécile Vandalem continues her Nordic journey.
Get The Buzz
The revenge of the theatre on real, just, poignant and astonishing sensitivity.
IMPACT
On a stage designed as a golf green, this microcosm – a poetic reflection of current population movements – is manipulated by three performers using humour and commitment.
Dance
A meeting with your avatar!
Dance
Based on the Myth of Sisyphus, using the music of Philip Glass and watched by ten spectators: mixed reality is waiting for you!
Meetings
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec represent an essential part of the Vitra Home Collection which continues to grow.
Get The Buzz
Gepassioneerd door het menselijke lichaam, werkte choreograaf Wayne McGregor — wonderkind van de dans over het Kanaal — samen met grote baanbrekende genetici die…
Dance
Connected by a network of ropes to a human-sized puppet, Iranian Ali Moini holds a troubling dialogue with said puppet where it is a question of w…
Circus
A prodigy of new magic, Étienne Saglio is an enchanter of souls.
IMPACT
This Homeric show examines the place of the artist in our neoliberal society and questions the connections between men and machines.
IMPACT
Imagine that the technology of tip saves you from suffering, aging and to die !
IMPACT
Responding to the SOS of his colleague Mitra Kadivar in late 2012, the psychoanalyst Jacques-Alain Miller tries, by exchanging letters, to get her released from a psychiatric hospital in Teheran wh…
Expositions
The Hong Kong artist, Chi-Yung Wong specialises in the design of immersive lighting installations.
IMPACT
IMPACT
Het Italiaanse fuse* is actief op het kruispunt van digitale kunst en design.
October 2018
Theater
During an uninhibited work session, looking like a real making of a show, three actors play their own roles as amateur researchers and present, in a series of offbeat conferences, the resu…
Theater
The true story of Judith Scott, a deaf person with Down’s syndrome, and of Joyce, her twin sister. As children, they were separated to allow Joyce, the “normal” sister, to develop properly.
Theater
A member of the Comédie-Française, Denis Podalydès puts on this comedy by Marivaux, which analyses romantic desire with spirit.
Theater
A notorious figure in modern theatre, Pippo Delbono gives us La Gioia, an evocation of the fragility and transience of moments of joy.
Circus
A magnificent modern circus!
Theater
A man and a women fall in love and get married Then they separate.
Theater
In this enigmatic book, Marguerite Duras probes her belief that no emotional or sexual intimacy is possible between men and women.
Theater
The piece is based on a text by the great Michael De Cock.
Theater
In the form of a satirical-political fable, this show follows the adventures of three characters in terms of marginality.
Theater
The piece is based on a text by the great Michael De Cock.
September 2018
Expositions
Since its residence at Emulation, Théâtre de Liège is entirely furnished by Vitra.
Theater
A controversial figure in the literary and political fields in the 80s, Marguerite Duras is the protagonist of this portrait piece.
Theater
Behind the tragedy of jealousy, there is the unbearable fragility of love in the face of the rampage of men.
Famille
Place du 20 Août is pedestrianised for the occasion. Now a traditional back-to-school celebration, the urban picnic by Théâtre de Liège celebrates its 5th anniversary with a series of activitie…
Saison 2017 - 2018
June 2018
Theater
The theatrical adaptation of Liège’s Nicolas Ancion’s sixth novel juggles with genres, styles and registers to talk to us about Lakshmi Mittal, the owner of the world’s largest s…
May 2018
Theater
We are in London, in a near future, the western societies have evolved into an ultra-secure management of the population.
Theater
Blockbuster is a mashup, in other words, a montage of clips from American cinema big budget productions.
Circus
April 2018
Theater
Ruben and Mathilde, assisted by their black servants, have invited Daniel and Corine to dinner.
Theater
Given the decent success last season, we offer you the chance to see or see again Sing my life, written and produced by Cathy Min Jung.
Theater
After the stage reading of his novel, Lettres à Nour, on our stage last season, Rachid Benzine comes back with a text called Pour en finir avec la question musulmane.
Theater
Author and philosopher Aurélien Bellanger and producer Julien Gosselin imagine a show about contemporary mythologies of Europe.
March 2018
Theater
Producer Peter Brook comes back to the Mahabharata that he created in 1985, which was a summit of his work.
Theater
Songs of joy, sumptuous ballets and light music are on Harmonie de la Gent à Plumes’ agenda.
Theater
Aurore Fattier offers us Bug, adapted for cinema, that we owe to American scriptwriter Tracy Letts’ vertiginous quill.
Theater
According to an original idea from composer Nicolas Ducloux and with the cooperation of the irresistible Pierre Guillois, this scandalous opera tells the scabrous and erotico-comic stories of a sma…
Theater
The highly productive producer, actress and author Jeanne Dandoy offers us a virulent adaptation of Pélican by August Strindberg.
Meetings
In an unprecedented way, the performances chosen for the second Philostory cycle use art to question the group and the larger community.
Theater
While her mother is involved with aerobics and the culinary arts, young Camille is stuck each day in a painful daily cycle full of vexations, traps and threats.
Theater
About to become Prime Minister, Martha Heiger, leader of the Parti du Réveil Populaire (Popular Awakening Party), goes back to her native island, Tristesses, to bury her mother who was found dead …
February 2018
Dance
To finish out the festival on a high note, the Moroccan Choreographer, Bouchra Ouizguen, escorts us to the gates of the desert.
Dance
In obscurity, light is elsewhere. We can see so much when we close our eyes.
Dance
Fré Werbrouck presents us Murmurô, part three, after Sillon and Phasme, of his Variations sur l’immobile.
Young public
This reflection on the ways to vent within both a permissive and repressive society that addresses sensuality with an aesthetic rigor and infinite delicacy.
Dance
A crazy adventure that is definitely worth the detour.
Dance
This unprecedented multifaceted dialogue brains the inventiveness of each person in an enthralling eulogy of complexity.
Young public
Accessible to everyone, Corps confiants is an introduction to “contact dance”.
Dance
A festive ritual where the sadness of the oppressed and the sovereign wind of rebellion soar.
Dance
Uri Ivgi and Johan Greben, a duo of internationally acclaimed Israeli-Dutch choreographers, fashion their work as an expression of the beauty and emotional weight of life and suffering.
Young public
Here, the dance captures daily life and transposes it into poetic gesture.
Young public
On a bright stage, children, little robots, and a dancing couple begin a slow dance of weightlessness, which progressively leads to an apotheosis of rhythm and fury.
Dance
Two undisciplined figures of South African creation unfurl the path of an individual who aspires to his rightful place.
Dance
The sewing workshops of the Theatre of Liège have made the incredible super distribution battalion costumes that the of this hilarious fresco is donning.
Dance
A large, hybrid, and hypnotic Rorschach test.
Young public
A real gem that sparkles in the heart of the sensitive individual.
Dance
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s affinity with Bach has already been evident in numerous earlier productions including ‘Partita 2’, which was previously seen at the Ruhrtriennale.
Dance
With an infinitely graceful dance, with speech, the relay of knowledge, vector of emotion, and with a disarming simplicity, she provides us with a solo of rare beauty.
Dance
A night at the club, but…in pointe shoes.
Dance
In the first part of the evening, young Liège street dance recruits will demonstrate for you their dexterity.
Young public
The themes of sharing, friendship, and groups are addressed with humour and bravery in a bubbling of energy, dance, music, and games with high-profile artists for our children!
Dance
As she logically follows up on her work exploring the body in a perpetual metamorphosis, the choreographer and performer Karine Ponties digs deep into unsuitability to reality in a sincere body.
Dance
Upon rhythmically contagious songs, the protagonists traverse the multi-identity reality of a southern Africa suffocating from a deleterious situation. She is an exquisite dancer bursting with ener…
January 2018
Pays de Danses
The “Enfant terrible” from Italian dance, Francesca Pennini revisits Maria Taglioni’s La Sylphide and Michel Fokine’s Les Sylphides, two emblems o…
Dance
The programme of the 2018 Festival of Avignon included Raimund Hoghe’s new creation that uses the past to gain a new perspective on the current turmoil that is adorned with both elegance and desp…
Dance
Dance
The opening performance of the festival 2018
Theater
The story happens in a village enclaved between the sea, the mountains and a volcano where a violent wind rages for six days every month.
Theater
Moutoufs. That’s what they used to be called, them, Moroccans, in schoolyards.
December 2017
Theater
In Berlin in the 1930s, the young American Cliff Bradshaw arrives at the Kit Kat Klub.
Theater
In the bookcase of a strange house, a small girl drawn on the last pages of a mathematics book pulls the audience into a wonderful adventure.
Theater
Once upon a time, there was America…
Theater
Humanist poet, rapper, creator of languages, Kery James temporarily leaves rap to throw himself into theatre and conceive his first play.
November 2017
Theater
Ismaël Saïdi is an author, screenwriter and director. He gave us the show Djihad, a veritable success in Belgium and in France and Géhenne, programmed within our walls last sea…
Expositions
On the occasion of its bicentenary, the University of Liège intends to evoke its past, to highlight its values and to sketch its challenges for tomorrow th…
Theater
Trying to cross the linguistic border, a new partnership between the Théâtre Royal Flamand, the KVS and the Théâtre de Liège is born.
Dance
The EUROPALIA festival honours Indonesia this year.
Get The Buzz
A breathtaking performance for the closing of the IMPACT 2017 Forum
IMPACT
The explorations of Eric Arnal Burtschy, implanted in the living and visual arts, deal as much with a questioning of the human as with the more abstract per…
IMPACT
C.a.p.e KIT (computer assisted personal environment) is a unique kind of performance, developed in close collaboration with scientists.
Theater
With the team of enchanters led by Michèle Anne De Mey and Jaco Van Dormael, the death, here treated, does not resemble anything known.
Meetings
Artificial Intelligence Vs Human Intelligence: Around an internet of emotions | Immersive realities – the world at 360° degrees
Meetings
IMPACT
Here is an experiential work halfway between object theater, optical installation and existential tale.
Dance
An innovative evening of productions between the arts and sciences, experience and expression, the known and the unknown.
IMPACT
Workshop led by Black Adopo (Sébastien Kouadio), Marco Porcher, & Laurent Malys
IMPACT
The French artist Michel Paysant, known for his research articulated between art and science, created a device called the Portrait Factory.
Musique
Wende has become one of the most versatile and talented artists on the Dutch stage in recent years. His musical interpretations extend to the fields of pop,…
Dance
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Expositions
This exhibition will bring together interactive …
Meetings
Sander Veenhof is an independent developer of formats based on the interactions between the virtual and physical domain.
Dance
Landskin
Meetings
Christoph De Boeck creates a work of visual installations in which sound resides as an articulation of energy.
Dance
In der japanischen Sprache beschreibt das Wort Hakanaï das Vergängliche, Fragile, Unbeständige; das, was zwischen Traum und Realität existiert. Das Wort setzt sich aus den Schriftzeich…
Meetings
Robertson : Siècle des Lumières, théâtre des ombres, spectacle des savoirs
The6 November 2017
Salle de l’Œil vert
Conference in French / Free admission
Theater
As technology and digital culture invest all sectors of society and as art uses them more and more, the Théâtre de Liège and its nine partners from Euregio Meuse-Rhin are launching IMPACT.
Theater
In homage to Robertson (1763-1837), a Liège master of phantasmagoria, this creation plunges us into the center of pure imagination, the one …
Theater
Robert Lepage deepened, through the invention of theatrical forms, his relationship between the intimate and the world.
Expositions
Frédéric Penelle is an engraver and Yannick Jacquet is a videographer. One wishing to erase the engraving from its frame and its “beautiful papers&#…
Meetings
Who has never dreamed of living in Minority Report mode?
October 2017
Theater
Argentinian author and producer Rafael Spregelburd offers us a montage made of three fraction and independent plays: Esquisses choisies pour la fin de l’Europe, Esquisses écartées pour la f…
Theater
Radical, unconventional, contemporary. Placing the spectator at the centre, the trans quinquennial collective excels in questioning the theatre’s here and now.
Theater
This play by Rafael Spregelburd narrates how Monti, a Neapolitan teacher, victim of a bizarre accident, lost his memory.
Theater
Young public
Dancer and choreographer Maria Clara Villa-Lobos shows the hidden side of the abundance and the hyper consumerism generated by our society.
Theater
Malcolm X, radical defender of citizens’ rights, represents a source of controversy and inspiration.
Theater
The story of a lone and anonymous woman in one last conversion with her lover, who has decided to put an end to their relationship.
September 2017
Theater
Adapted from the last chapter of Hubert Selby Jr’s first eponymous novel, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Coda depicts a 24-hour period in the warehouse area of Brooklyn.
Theater
The crisis, the unsteady future, the rise of populism… this breading-ground for hatred is experienced by a very blonde family.
Theater
As a celebration of a new theatre period, the traditional Picnic urbain dresses in the colours of Haiti for the 20th anniversary of the cooperative agreement between WBI and Haiti
Theater
Stage adaptation of Olivier Py’s novel, Les Parisiens tells the story of Aurélien, a young artist about to conquer the city of light.
Saison 2016 - 2017
May 2017
Get The Buzz
The National Ballet of Amsterdam pays glowing homage to the key Russian-American choreographer of the twentieth century, George Balanchine, in a production of three of his most famous masterpieces …
Get The Buzz
Visionary British artist Katie Mitchell’s “innovative and brilliant” production of Bonnes by Jean Genet: the rebellious writer par excellence, who opposes the values of …
Theater
Director Christine Delmotte brings Monsieur Optimiste back to the stage with unfailing loyalty to the original novel by Alain Berenboom (which won the Rossel prize in 2013). The story of …
April 2017
Meetings
A cycle of lectures, open to everyone, to (re)discover the great figures of popular fiction.
Theater
Fabrice Adde is already well-travelled around theatre stages and cinema screens, including work with Bouli Lanners (Eldorado) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant). In…
Theater
A sort of poetic performance on the need to rethink the entire economy, La Montagne is an artistic battle between two actresses, compelled by the urgency of no longer letting their world…
Theater
Objects, puppets, a sewing machine, text and music are the elements of a home-made approach telling Eddy’s story. A local hero, he has always ridden his bicycle. In a beautiful and lively gro…
Theater
An iconoclastic and pop approach to the sacrosanct topic of spelling! A new type of show which is taking a risk: two French teachers allow the public to cast a critical eye over spelling, too often…
Theater
His urge to speak out on mass unemployment came about when young director Laurent Plumhans entered the turmoil of the world of work. Presented in the form of interviews for unemployment benefits, a…
Theater
During a week, the theatrical youth
Theater
It is the idea to create a show about and with the remains of our common history.
It is the will to seize the pas…
Theater
Contemplative Meditation on the Human Condition
Get The Buzz
A man and a woman read each other’s personal diaries. Doing this, they mutually guide each other through their hidden desires, until they entangle themselves in an increasingly dense fabric o…
March 2017
Theater
Controversial director Milo Rau journeys to the heart of current political tensions: the civil war in the Congo, and follows the flow of refugees onto the waters of the Mediterranean. He offers a d…
Dance
Antony Hamilton, outsider artiste, dancer and choreographer, and Alisdair Macindoe, dancer and sound designer, operate in the centre of a field of programmed, automatic percussion. Arranged in a ci…
Theater
The NIMIS Groupe – a theatre collective of young actors from Belgium, France, Sweden and Switzerland – tackles the politics of European migration. Not without humour, their show reflects their …
Concerts
Liege Theatre offers “Les Bons Plans CU du Théâtre de Liège”, in partnership with the C.U. Festival, evenings especially designed for 18-30 year-olds.
Theater
Marianne Pousseur and Enrico Bagnoli work brilliantly to explore an innovative, experimental and contemporary theatrical language. Their research is built around three amazing monologues written by…
Theater
In a smoky atmosphere reminiscent of the 70s, a group of reporters meet with one aim in mind: discovering beauty. True to the inventive set design constructed from the stage, the Raoul Collectif co…
Get The Buzz
Jan Lauwers, inspired by the family trees of his performers, has written a new story based on their different nationalities, cultures and languages. He goes back more than 1,000 years to tackle the…
Theater
Marianne Pousseur and Enrico Bagnoli work brilliantly to explore an innovative, experimental and contemporary theatrical language. Their research is built around three amazing monologues written by…
Theater
After 15 years of living together, Jack and Sally agree to separate: a huge shock to their family and friends. Director Michel Kacenelenbogen and his sparkling troupe of actors take great pleasure …
Theater
Marianne Pousseur and Enrico Bagnoli work brilliantly to explore an innovative, experimental and contemporary theatrical language. Their research is built around three amazing monologues written by…
February 2017
Meetings
Every month, on one Monday at 6pm, the Théâtre de Liège welcomes the guests of the Alliance Française de Liège: writers, poets, playwrights, historians, scientists,… as long as they underlin…
Theater
A one-man show written by Tatjana Pessoa, guides us with humour and tenderness towards an other-worldly place, which explores the childhood of a son of immigrants, his relationship with his family,…
Theater
In a little village in Vermont, four characters, made vulnerable by life, take part in an amateur theatre workshop. Through role plays and incongruous exercises, they move beyond their complexes, t…
Theater
Denoucer of the injustices of our times, Pippo Delbono presents a show inspired by the Gospels. Theatre and biography overlap, interact and feed each other. Performed at the ORW (with the orchestra…
Get The Buzz
Director Luk Perceval and the NTGent present an adaptation of the subtly humorous political novel Sneeuw (Neige), by Turkish Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk. Centred on love, politics and r…
Theater
Lost in the middle of the sea, a couple drifts in a tiny boat. They are in crisis, having lost everything. Agnès Limbos, a leader in object theatre and a high-flying actress, works once again with…
Theater
François Sauveur – gutsy author, actor, and director – tackles the difficult subject of euthanasia, seen from the point of a view of an ill person as well as from the treating doctor, with no …
Concerts
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liege, in partnership with the Theatre of Liege, the Cité Miroir and the Concerts de Midi of the City of Liege, invites us to the Festival Exils and leads us al…
Get The Buzz
In Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich, the choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is a sort of crazy movement, a tide or fire, passing from body to body. The dancers abandon themsel…
Theater
Le Roi nu, by Evgueni Schwartz, was inspired by three of Andersen’s tales. In a fun circus tent two companies (the Baladins du Miroir and the Maison Éphémère) invite you to enjoy …
Theater
Salvatore Calcagno has created a visual concert, a contemporary mime performed by a dancer from the Opéra de Paris, a soprano and an actress. The inspiration for the show was the death of his fath…
January 2017
Dance
Pour le lancement officiel du projet européen IMPACT, le Théâtre de Liège vous invite à découvrir deux pièces de l’artiste japonais Hiroaki Umeda.
Get The Buzz
The paradoxical combination of light and shade, hardness and tenderness, silence and noise, goodness and meanness, fullness and emptiness, is central to this diptych in which Rocío Molina pushes b…
Theater
Having taken part in an attack during which several people died or lost the use of their legs, a prisoner meets an officially appointed priest, whilst at the hospital where he regularly goes for tr…
Dance
Fresh from their amazing success in Expiry date at the Festival Pays de Danses 2016, the BabaFish/Petri Dish Company are back with a new show at the crossroads of theatre, circus and dance…
Expositions
Dimitri Coppe is the guest of Jaco Van Dormael.
December 2016
Theater
Dramatic author, director and filmmaker, Jean-Michel Ribes pays homage to three 1920s Dadaist dandies, three scintillating scandals, three thinkers going against the tide of received ideas. Their m…
Dance
This time, dancer and choreographer Claudio Bernardo dissects the myths of Don Giovanni, Don Juan and Casanova, incarnations of the impious, libertine seducer, questioning virility at the beginning…
Concerts
The Henri Pousseur Centre presents its festival Images Sonores, dedicated to mixed music.
Theater
For his first show in French presented in Liège, Krzysztof Warlikowski is infatuated with Phaedra – the tragic heroine who has stalked the history of theatre for 25 centuries – and has chosen …
Get The Buzz
Maarten Van Cauwenberghe, a long-standing collaborator of the choreographer and dancer, presents several numbers by the singer on old vinyl records, whilst Lisbeth Gruwez dances, alone on stage, so…
Dance
Tackling the subject of shamanism, Belgian-Argentinian choreographer Ayelen Parolin has created repetitive, hypnotic, lightening-flash movements.
November 2016
Theater
Yves Beaunesne presents the most iconic of Pierre Corneille’s plays, Le Cid.
Theater
“As we’re no longer anyone, we’re not worth much”. A couple of decadent plutocrats – the truculent Agnès Limbos and Thietty Hellin – hanging on to their privileges like…
Dance
Composer and film-maker, Thierry de Mey turns his hand to choreography.
Theater
For some years now director Antoine Laubin has been developing a style of theatre which is both funny and black.
Theater
Cathy Min Jung looks at the impact of the economic crisis on workers, who, caught up in the massive waves of job losses, have been stripped of incomes which were already insecure: affecting women i…
Theater
Ève Bonfanti and Yves Hunstad put their Fabrique Imaginaire back on the road to present a new show – the sixth – which plunges us into a night during which an insomniac author is writing. It&#…
Expositions
A selection of works drawn from the depths of Duvel Moortgat where strange worlds take us back to our own mythology of America.
October 2016
Theater
François Sauveur – gutsy author, actor, and director – tackles the difficult subject of euthanasia, seen from the point of a view of an ill person as well as from the treating doctor, with no …
Theater
James Frey’s novel presents an angry critique of puritan America – shot through with individual and State violence, poverty, racism, and inequality – through the eyes of a New York messia…
Dance
Between Zulu dance, contemporary choreography and hip hop, Constanza Macras loves to mix up the arts.
Theater
Director Galin Stoev presents, with his magnificent actors, a jewel of comedy and feeling.
Theater
This adaptation of Beaumarchais’ masterpiece is great fun, the lively performances punctuated by a band which shifts from Mozart to the Beatles via Beyoncé in order to paint a cameo of roman…
Theater
This family musical from the Festival of Wallonia will plunge us into the simultaneously unnerving and reassuring world of yôkai spirits and the Japanese fairy-tales which, over the centu…
Concerts
The Centre Henri Pousseur and Ça Balance Classique will present the prizes to the winners of the two competitions for composition of contemporary music.
Expositions
Architecture Wallonia-Brussels Inventories # Inventories will produce, every three years, a portrait of a recent piece of architecture in Wallonia and in Brussels, in the form of a publication and …
September 2016
Theater
With this previously unseen montage of two plays by Falk Richter – simultaneously amusing and tragic – Vincent Hennebicq presents a stark portrait of people alone, “in crisis”, who …
Theater
A detective is hired by an intellectual, bourgeois family to investigate the disappearance of their daughter. Selma Alaoui has adapted the novel by Virginie Despentes, between thriller and scary ro…
Theater
Accompanied by readings from the poet René Depestre, Pietro Varrasso and a mixed team of artists from Haiti, Senegal, Belgium and France explore voodoo rituals, to the sound of Haitian and Cuban s…
Theater
The third annual urban picnic organised in the Place du 20-Août, pedestrianised for the occasion. On the programme: Liege Vintage Market, a pyrotechnics workshop for children, music, concerts, a D…
Theater
With their quirky sense of humour, Claude Semal and Agnès Limbos throw the spotlight on the famous spud which has cemented the Belgian reputation worldwide. In a circus tent, taste crispy chips an…
Concerts
Liege Theatre and the C.U. Festival present an exceptional concert by An Pierlé. This artist from Ghent will perform her new album Arches as part of the C.U. Festival (9-11 September).
Saison 2015 - 2016
May 2016
Meetings
Aménagement de bureau, objets usuels, intérieurs et sculptures, peu de designers se sentent à l’aise dans autant de disciplines !
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In Het jaar van de kreeft (the Year of the Lobster), Hugo Claus, a key writer of the 19th century, close to Antonin Artaud, draws the portrait of a couple, devastated by separation anxiety…
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In Pixel, the choreographer Mourad Merzouki works together with the graphic designers Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne.
April 2016
Theater
We are pleased to present you an exceptional show for the annual gala of the association “Les Amis du Théâtre de Liège”. It was founded in 2007, during the presidency of the Gouverneur de la…
Theater
Oscar Van Rompay is an actor in the troop NTGent and, this is quite uncommon, he also lives in Kenya where he manages a trading tree plantation.
Meetings
The 2015-2016 season is an opportunity to experiment the direction of new encounters: for one evening, a philosopher is invited to converse with an artist on a show. Their points of view allow the …
Theater
But what becomes of all the tears that
March 2016
Dance
In this nostalgic creation, the German choreographer and Pina Bausch’s former playwright Raimund Hoghe celebrates reduction and ritualization.
Theater
This majestic, festive, superb and arrogant funeral oration is the death knell of the old shapes and a celebration to the ones to come.
Theater
An ingenuous and quite good-looking plumber is first phoned to unplug a clog in a shower. But when he arrives, the eager and a bit undressed owner throws herself on him.
Theater
Here are six writers gathered for a work session. They are writing together the pilot for a new TV series which tells the story of Max, a communist German worker who works in Seraing (Liège) in th…
Expositions
Vernissage le mardi 15.03 à 18:00
Theater
Inspired by the work of Rainer Fassbinder which tackles the representation and analysis of women, he speaks here about Veronika Voss, the Bavarian author’s last character and one of his …
Young public
All age groups (14 and above)
On a stage with a used door, barefooted Thierry Lefèvre is telling us us the story of an unattached wanderer who walks through the rocky paths through a mounta…
Young public
From 8 years
Tonight, it is Christmas: we eat, we laugh and we speak several langu…
February 2016
Theater
After their successful collaboration in L’homme qui valait 35 milliards, the Collectif Mensuel and Nicolas Ancion are coming back much to our delight.
Dance
We were particularly delighted with the closing of the Festival Pays de Danses this year. Indeed, three amazing couples of tango dancers will be reunited in Liege especially for this occasion.
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Dance
For the first part of the performance, the company D’ici P. based its work on paintings of the Belgian artist Michaël Borremans.
Dance
Characterized by liberal capitalism, the current political trend is to govern in a state of constant threat which creates and demands more and more order through repres…
Dance
This fourth part Corps en Révolte (revolting bodies) is a coproduction of the Ballet National de Marseille and the ICKamsterdam.
Dance
This work results from the collaboration between the French-Malian choreographer Fatou Traoré, the double bassist Alex Gilain and the dance company from Bamako GnagamiX.
Dance
Arrived from Argentina in the beginning of the 2000s, the dancer Ayelen Parolin created her autobiographical solo over 10 years ago, to which she gave her birth date as…
Young public
Family show from 6 years.
Young public
Family show from 2.5 years.
Dance
Expiry date starts on one last breath, one last hour. An elderly man is standing quietly ready to leave this world: however, inside him, his memories are floating like the objects around him: nothi…
Dance
Let us picture Anna Pavlova, Gene Kelly, John Travolta, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and William Forsythe reincarnate one human being to dance their legendary solos from Swan Lake, Singing in the Rai…
Young public
Family show from 8 years.
Eric …
Dance
10 Miniballeti is an exploration based on a note book from the Italian choreographer Francesca Pennines’ childhood. In this time machine, there is room for each part of the memory but also for th…
Young public
Family show from 8 years.
Dance
When she was 16, Michèle Noiret attended the école Mudra, founded by Maurice Béjart, met Karlheinz Stockhausen, a pioneer of electronic music, and she has become her virtuoso.
Dance
The young dancer and choreographer from Slovakia Anton Lachky places his second performance Side Effects at a time when stupidity is praised and the thirst for monstrosity is everywhere.
Dance
The young choreographer from Brussels Louise Vanneste, who is now working at Charleroi Danses and is a partner at the Halles in Schaerbeek, creates meticulous choreographies building an environment…
Young public
Family show from 8 years.
Dance
The Compagnie KM29 includes on the one hand professional dancers and on the other hand, young marginal people coming from the suburbs in Buenos Aires who have taken contemporary dance and hip-hop l…
Dance
During her former performances, the choreographer and dancer Nicole Mossoux has learnt to tame puppets, shadows and manipulated objects. This time, she also uses Foley equipment, which echoes her h…
Dance
Coming from Buenos Aires and living in Berlin, the choreographer Constanza Macras explores in this performance the ars memoriae – the art of memory.
Dance
This solo performance is based on Malika Djardi’s mother’s Islamic faith and her praying. The choreographer has used interviews with her to create a kind of “documentary” solo.
Dance
This solo performance is based on Malika Djardi’s mother’s Islamic faith and her praying. The choreographer has used interviews with her to create a kind of “documentary” solo.
January 2016
Young public
Family show from 6 years .
Ma…
Dance
The Festival Pays de Danses is proud to welcome two solo choreographies by the choreographer and dancer from Ankara Ziya Azazi on the occasion of Europalia Turkey.
Dance
Paul Valéry once wrote “Dance: it is a kind of drunkenness which goes from slowness to delirium, from a kind of mystical abandonment to a kind of fury.”
Expositions
The collection of the exhibition by Alain Platel Madmusée view
From28 Jan on5 Mar 2016
Salle des pieds Légers
Vernissage on Thursday 28.01 at 6pm
Dance
Freely inspired by Virginia Woolf’s book The Waves, Vai e passa is a race to the sun which conveys extreme tension between the world’s frenzy and life’s fleeting character.
Dance
The Batsheva Dance Company was founded by the American choreographer Martha Graham and baroness Batsheva de Rotschild, whom the company was named after, and is now based in Tel-Aviv.
Dance
Video installation
The Festival Pays de Danses does not on…
Meetings
After winning of the Prix Rossel for Le jour du chien, éd. Minuit 1996, Caroline Lemarche has published some novels and short stories for the radio or the stage and some unclassifiable st…
Theater
On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Turkish and Moroccan immigrations, you will be able to discover the remarkable artistic work of the author and actor Kenan Görgun, between a stan…
Theater
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, Transquinquennal takes up the challenge to present in the Théâtre de Liège the play that you will choose.
December 2015
Theater
Here they come together once more on stage to present their new play: Agnès, a scatterbrained singer, and Philipp, his not-so-chatty partner.
Theater
This play, whose creation was initiated on the occasion of the Aube Boraine (Mons 2015), brings you into the world of cycling. Indeed, the porteurs d’eau (a “water carriers”) are the…
Theater
The Vicomte de Valmont, a depraved strategist, stays in salons to seduce women. He plots with the Marquise de Merteuil, a devilish creature hungry for intrigue.
Theater
Jaime, a fifty-year-old father, calls his joyful eighty-year-old mother more often than he visits her. Yet, one night, he goes to see her in person to tell her some very bad news: because of the ec…
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In this play written by Jean Cocteau, a woman is on the phone with her ex-lover.
November 2015
Theater
This work, created by the collective UBIK, is in keeping with their amazing first show, Pourquoi Ève vient-elle chez Adam ce soir? that was shown to you in our theatre last season, asking…
Theater
The director Yves Beaunesne tackles joyfully this founding play of the modern German theatre that will speak to the public as long as there are young people who feel love and injustice, and older p…
Theater
After The Walls (UTOPLA) is the final piece of the Trilogie des parentheses, directed by the fabulous actress Anne-Cécile Vandalem.
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Originally: a couple is lost at sea in a small tub. The wind makes the boat and the couple sway. They have literally nothing left.
Theater
Elisabeth II is one of the funniest and cruellest plays that Thomas Bernhard has ever written. It tells the story of Herrenstein, a disillusioned calculating retired manufacturer, who live…
Young public
Jean-Michel Rabeux, a big fan of Charles Perrault’s, has decided to tell La Belle au bois dormant his own way. He has kept from the original story: the initiatory woods, the for…
Concerts
The festival Images Sonores is without a doubt the place to be for electroacoustic music in Belgium. It’s also a focal point for mixed music, in which a sonorous world and acoustic…
Theater
Gala in favor of the foundation Fondation Ihsane Jarfi
Theater
Ubu, who is manipulated by his ambitious wife, kills the king of Poland. Then he begins to reign with a striking brutality and increases his fortune with a barbaric greed as he gets himself rid of …
Theater
The great sensitive artist Pippo Delbono has created this time a concert in a dramatic manner.
Young public
On November 9th and 10th, the Chiroux library is participating to the third edition of Livr@do, a book day about youth literature, in the Théâtre de Liège.
October 2015
Dance
In the footsteps of Raymond Roussel, the Austrian company Liquid Loft invites us to an enchanting surrealistic journey.
Theater
In this play which was written, staged and directed by Hamadi, the actor Soufian El Boubsi tells us the story of a man brought down by difficulties in a poverty-stricken country.
Theater
The Companie Point Zéro, led by Jean-Michel d’Hoop, presents us a comedy that goes after the ghosts haunting every family history.
Theater
Nicolas Luçon, who skilfully directed Blanche Neige and L’Institut Benjamenta, is now working on a new creation based this time on the atypical work of the Polish author S.I. W…
Theater
After he loses his wife, Argan remarries with the kind Béline. Although he is completely healthy, he receives all kinds of treatments (bloodletting, purges, and potions) which are given to him by …
Dance
Have you ever seen a show with 3D-glasses?
Concerts
Giovanna Marini, a musician, singer and ethnomusicologist, is one of the greatest female voices in the field of world music. She was invited in Liège for the first time in 1992, on the occasion of…
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At the end of the nineteenth century, Jef Lambeaux sculpted his colossal relief called Human passions, which was very controversial among conservative spheres.
September 2015
Theater
The brand new theatre company from Liege, Hop Ar Noz, is presenting a tasty satire about food-related excesses.
Expositions
Vernissage on Sunday 27.09 at 1pm
Theater
Sixty minutes to speak every language