TROIS C-L – Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois is the country’s leading organisation for contemporary dance. Supported by the Ministry of Culture, it fulfills several missions:

• Supporting and producing artistic work;
• Developing a contemporary dance network in Luxembourg with the aim of offering a demanding and varied artistic programme in the country;
• Providing continuing professional training to professional dancers and choreographers (daily professional classes, master classes and special training);
• Raising awareness among the general public of contemporary dance in its most diverse forms. On the third of each month TROIS C-L organises the public event called « 3 du TROIS », TROIS C-L also proposes amateur dance classes and courses for the public ;
• International promotion : the goal pursued by TROIS C-L is to develop an ambitious programme providing artists with opportunities to achieve greater visibility in their artistic work outside Luxembourg.
• Political involvement : TROIS C-L is the main interlocutor regarding dance and related issues on a political level.

Founded at the initiative of the Ministry of Culture in 1994, from the outset of the TDM association (“Théâtre dansé et muet”) was intended to promote choreography in Luxembourg.

Bringing together various players from the dance world, the TDM‘s objectives were both artistic and educational.

In 2005, TDM became TROIS C-L - Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois. This change was in line with the expansion and the increasingly professional nature of contemporary dance sector in Luxembourg.

TROIS C-L is located since 2011 in the Banannefabrik. An old fruit warehouse. There are 3 studios:

• 100 m2
• 110 m2
• 150 m2

The building can host an audience up to 99 people. The staff works in two office and a meeting room. The building also provide a library for professionals.

Picture: Banannefabrik © Bohumil Kostohryz