BIPOD is the first contemporary dance platform to be founded in Beirut, Lebanon in 2004. The festival has created a significant presence for dance in Lebanon and became one the most important dance festivals in the region. It offers a rich international program of performances, debates, video dance, talks, lectures and workshops.
It allowed more visibility, collaboration, networking and exchange for artists on a local and international level. BIPOD has proved its relevance as a major artistic and cultural event in Beirut. Its solid and excellent reputation raised international curiosity about the dance scene in the region and promoted Beirut to be the center of contemporary Dance in the Arab World. The festival has taken a special significance in relation to the wide public interest, the artistic quality of its program, the ability to invite very well known international companies performing for the first time in the region, the outreach to remote cities, towns, and other disadvantaged communities, the strong motivation for young artists, and the positive atmosphere it creates every year in the capital.
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“Where there are no structures that make art possible, art celebrates itself. It creates its own structures, in Beirut, a deeply troubled city where everything is back to square one and everything seems possible again.”
Arnd Wesemann
