UNICA
Upcoming
Inspired by motifs from the life and work of artist Unica Zürn, Sascha sings, plays, and moves to texts and fragments of her own writing in a concert-style vocal performance that combines words with improvised music, video art and physical theatre.
Monolabo research viewing
Fundamental Monodrama Festival 2026
June 13
Cosmos (Not Enough) goes Prague
Interdisciplinary solo performance
Sascha's profound and humorous analysis and reflection on unequal perception, memory and reality, on being a woman, being a man, being oneself, on relationship, desire, lust, love, polarity, erotic attraction and the different experience of space and time.
SIMPLE THINGS
New album by Murat Öztürk
Patrice Lerech - Franck Leroy - Thomas Bramerie - Franck Agulhon &
special guests
David Linx
Sascha Ley
Released 27 March 2026
Backstage
Short Film / Dramaby Émile V. Schlesser
A young theatre actor becomes involved in a toxic relationship with his demanding director. What starts as a harmless affair turns into a dark game of seduction, power and manipulation.
Premiere Max Ophüls Festival 2026
Winter Of The Crow
A film by Kasia Adamik
A British professor witnesses a student's murder by secret police in 1981 Warsaw under martial law. She becomes a target while running through the city's streets, eventually forced to stop and take a stand.
Reims Polar Festival's Jury and Critics Award 2026
World Premiere at TIFF 2025
2026 in European cinemas
On sera heureux
A film by Léa Pool
The journey of Saad, a young Moroccan exiled in Quebec, who is willing to do anything to save the man he loves, an Iranian refugee threatened with deportation to his country where certain death awaits him.
CINEMANIA award prix post moderne du meilleur film québécois
Release 11/2025 Cinemania Montréal
2026 in European cinemas
Wolf Down The Rich
An experimental short film by Lucie Wahl
In a cloak-and-dagger operation, five women kidnap Jeff Bezos.
Filmreakter Quickie 2026
World Premiere at Luxembourg Film Festival
2026
Fences
A short film by Maja Jurić & Luc Spada
Three gardeners in the transnational region of Europe are furious when it becomes clear that someone is nicking things from their garden.
Filmreakter Quickie 2026
World Premiere at Luxembourg Film Festival
2026
HÄNSEL & GRÉIDEL
Play
Text: Cosimo Suglia
Director: Daliah Kentges
Choreography: Piera Jovic
A modern version of Grimm's fairy-tale
Opening 14.12.2025, revival DEC 19-22, 2026
Grand Théâtre Luxembourg
BABYPHONE
Scenic Reading
Text: Guy Rewenig
Performed & directed by Sascha Ley
A 17-year-old girl settles the score with her father’s macho behaviour. A funny and cruel reckoning of a shrinking man.
World Premiere 12.10.2025
Théâtre National Luxembourg
Cosmos (Not Enough)
by Sascha Ley
Pluridisciplinary performance
Sascha's profound and humorous analysis and reflection on unequal perception, memory and reality, on being a woman, being a man, being oneself, on relationship, desire, lust, love, polarity, erotic attraction and the different experience of space and time.
Interdisciplinary solo performance, since 2024
Booking via contact page
Hors d'haleine
A film by Eric Lamhène
Emma is referred to a women’s shelter. Withdrawn and apathetic at first, she opens up over time and makes friends with other women at the shelter. Together they stand a chance of regaining themselves, their self-worth and their independence.
Luxembourg's selection for the 2026 Oscar competition
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SONIQ
Lit & Spoken Word
A linguistic-musical synthesis of music, literature, poetry and vocal arts. Inspired by Salman Rusdie's last novel “Victory City”, own experiences and compositions.
Sascha Ley, Mitch Heinrich, Christina Fuchs, Ramesh Shotham and Jarry Singla.
Revival tour
Kasemattentheater 10.6.2026
Axis Mundi
New band project & new album
Experimental jazz
Sascha - vocals
Laurent Payfert - db
Murat Öztürk - p
Jean Pascal Boffo - live sound processing
Release in 2024
opderschmelz
Dudelange (L)
Festival Jazz en Sol Mineur (F)
The Laughter ...
Improvisation & Jazz
Hommage to Hildegard Knef
Georg Ruby - piano & arrangements
Sascha - vocals
HM 309
JazzHausMusik
Release & Concerts
since Oct 2023
Wasserkur für die Ohren
Sound walk performance
w/ Liquid Penguin and Krischan Kriesten
Bad Schwalbach
Schlangenbad
August to October, 2023
Besuch der alten Dame
as Claire Zachanassian
Director: Claire Thill
Independent Little Lies, Biergerbühn & Escher Theater 2021-23
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with the OPL
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
Conductor Gast Waltzing
Jan 2023
Festival Poster girl
... of the Freistil Festival 2022 brochure with an exquisite programme of the equally exquisite Saarland art scene.
In Between
Solo album Release JHM292
Sascha Ley on
vocals, piano, mini synth and other
special guest:
Jean Pascal Boffo
live sound processing
Papercut
Inspired by the School Leaks scandal that rocked Luxembourg in 2015
Written and staged by Larisa Faber
2022
Ley & Payfert
Voice & double bass
free improvisation & psychedelic jazz with Laurent Payfert
since 2010 ...
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An der Paus
Short film by Nadia Masri
Music score & vocals
Sascha Ley
Filmreakter Quickies 2021
ICare
Dubbing
Queen Pasiphae
(in Luxembourgish)
The animated Film by Carlo Vogele to represent Luxembourg at Oscars 2023
Auf der Zunge
Song Cycle
Music Camille Kerger Lyrics Sascha Ley
performed by the Ensemble Kammerata Musicdays Vianden 2021 Festival
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Onirisée
A dreamlike performance, inspired by the surrealist female artists.
Staged & performed by Les Oniristes
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Georg Ruby Village Zone
Georg Ruby - p
Stefan Goldbach -b
Daniel Weber - dr
Sascha Ley - guest
contemporary jazz & improvisation
"Saluti a Peppino"
JHM 279 / (2021)
La boîte à chaussures
Radioplay/music
Catherine Dauphin (writer)
Magaly Teixeira (actor)
Sascha Ley (music)
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End of the Rainbow
as Judy Garland in Peter Quilter's play
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Mi Frida
dance theatre play by Sascha Ley
w/ Sylvia Camarda
Les Théâtres de la Ville (Capucins)
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Radio Night
official video clip
of Lata Gouveia's song
FemmeTotale
Jazz Cabaret
Georges Letellier - p
Eugène Bozzetti - ts, akk, accordina
Jeaannot Sanavia, Laurent Payfert - db
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Fieber
a film by
Elfi Mikesch
as Madame Marguérite
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Der Klang der Lyrik
a concert-reading of Theodor Strom's lyrical work
Kirsti Alho & Sascha Ley - voc
Julien Blondel - vc
Kaori Nomura - p
