From 19 to 24/03/2019

Energy to satiety, the miracles sparkling with ideas, the verb high, the opinion sliced, the young companies will disembark and storm many rooms in the Burning City!

For here is already the eighth edition of the Festival Émulation, a precious professional lever put at the disposal of the young theatrical guard coming from the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. The windfall is to be seized also for the public, which will be able to devote its interest and curiosity to the works of the rising generation, while vivifying its appointments with the alive art.

A jury composed of international programmers will award the Emulation Prize, awarded by the Association of Friends of the Theater of Liège.
A second jury, made up of secondary school students from the Province of Liège, will award the Coup de Coeur.

For a week, the Théâtre de Liège gives a voice to young emerging artists and brings to the fore seven of their creations.

Every evening, after the shows, the Festival Emulation afters welcome you from 22h in a festive and relaxed atmosphere.

With the support of the Club des Entreprises partenaires of the Liège Theater

Festival 2025 - 2026

May 2026

April 2026

March 2026

February 2026

Pays de Danses

Opéra Punk

8/02/2026
Centre culturel de Chênée
Conceived as an exuberant celebration of freedom, Opéra Punk is a revitalizing musical performance that urges us to shout our wildest desires out loud.
Pays de Danses

MOVEMENTS OF SOUL

7/02/2026
Salle de la Grande Main
Singer, dancer, producer and model, YAV — who has collaborated with world-renowned names such as Beyoncé and Calvin Klein — invites us through his singular artistic approach to experience art differently, to be carried by dance and music, and to savour every moment to the fullest.
Pays de Danses

Blind

6/02/2026
La Cité Miroir
Through the expressive power of krump, Blind offers a sensory and political journey in which dance becomes a way to speak out, to resist, and to find one’s own voice in a world shaped – and constrained – by its limits.
Pays de Danses

BRUT

5/02/2026
cultuurcentrum, Hasselt
An architectural – and ideological – movement with a long-disputed minimalist aesthetic, Brutalism finds a new resonance today in the work of Polish choreographer Kinga Jaczewska.
Pays de Danses

T’façon on est en 2012

2/02/2026
Salle de l’Œil vert
With T’façon on est en 2012, the Belgian choreographer continues her exploration of the outbursts and overflow of violence in our societies, drawing on a phenomenon typical of the time: “clashes.”
Pays de Danses

Kassia Undead

2/02/2026
Salle de la Grande Main
Following in the footsteps of her earlier creations inspired by major historical figures of dance and music, Lara Barsacq brings Kassia’s spirit to the stage, immersing us in a medieval aesthetic at the crossroads of East and West.

January 2026

Pays de Danses

Troisième miNiature

1/02/2026
Verviers / Espace Duesberg
Troisième miNiature is a fascinating journey through the randomness of forms – a poetic performance where imagination takes centre stage and every gaze invents its own story.
Pays de Danses

Sous le volcan

31/01/2026
Salle de la Grande Main
Drawing inspiration from the imagery of volcanoes – destructive yet vital forces for life on Earth – Leslie Mannès choreographs on stage dances of passage, bridges between the visible and the invisible, which may perhaps herald the emergence of a new society united as one chorus.
Pays de Danses

Último Helecho

29/01/2026
Salle de la Grande Main
Born from the encounter between Nina Laisné and François Chaignaud, joined by Argentine singer Nadia Larcher and six musicians rooted in both early and popular traditions, Último Helecho revives forgotten repertoires and reveals the poetic, resistant power of folk heritage.
Pays de Danses

Losing it

28/01 29/01/2026
Manège (Caserne Fonck)
With her first solo creation, the Palestinian choreographer uses dance to question what it means to grow up in a war zone, constantly shaped by politics and violence.
Pays de Danses

Last and first men

27/01/2026
cultuurcentrum, Hasselt
Inspired by Olaf Stapledon’s revolutionary science-fiction novel, written in 1930 yet strikingly relevant today, Neon Dance explores the possible futures of humankind.
Pays de Danses

The Disappearing Act

27/01/2026
Manège (Caserne Fonck)
Surrounded by flamenco guitarist Raúl Cantizano, London-based multi-instrumentalist Donna Thompson, and singer Rosa de Algeciras, Yinka Esi Graves signs a collective, vibrant, and richly layered work, where voices, rhythms, and memories intertwine.
Pays de Danses

noVLand

25/01/2026
La Cité Miroir
As democratic regimes grow weaker across the world, Anton Lachky takes the unusual gamble of exploring democracy through the art of dance.
Pays de Danses

Suzanne : une histoire du cirque

25/01/2026
Marchin / Latitude 50
In a hybrid performance – part film, part lecture, part stage show – Anna Tauber retraces the extraordinary life of this remarkable woman and opens a reflection on memory, risk, death, and the very act of living.
Dance

Ni Ni Ya Mo Mo

23/01 24/01/2026
Salle de l’Œil vert
Sometimes, a work of art is born from an intimate memory. It delves into the past – into the traces it leaves on our bodies and minds – and awakens the hidden layers of our heritage.

December 2025

Famille

Foxes

27/12/2025
Salle de la Grande Main
An old dance hall, four children, and a thousand dreams to reinvent their world.
Theater

Rumba

16/12 20/12/2025
Salle de la Grande Main
The ox and the donkey from Saint Francis's nativity scene… on a supermarket parking lot

November 2025

October 2025

September 2025

August 2025