Sound Theatre With Crocodiles at Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Grand Théâtre

Crocodiles (known to biologists as Crocodylinae) are large, aquatic, carnivorous reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. They like rivers, lakes, wetlands, brackish water and even saltwater. Unlike alligators, they don’t like cold environments at all. Distractfold, on the contrary, is a young and exciting group of musicians from Manchester. Their trademark is a wild mix of instrumental, electronic, and hybrid music of the 21st century. Together with people from the fields of design, architecture, photography and film making, they created interdisciplinary projects with live music and dance at the Architectural Association in London. They were the first ever UK ensemble to be awarded the renowned Kranichstein Music Prize, and they are currently ensemble in residence at Harvard University. As the “rainy days” festival is going “into the wild” in December 2016, Distractfold will transform the Studio stage at Grand Théâtre. It might look like lakes and wetlands in the end, though normally electronic music instruments don’t go too well with either freshwater or saltwater. Anyway: The crocodiles are coming to Luxembourg.