bipod 2016

BIPOD co-production | Performances in Beirut sponsored by FNB - First National Bank and WARDE

 About the choreographers
Omar Rajeh Omar Rajeh, choreographer, dancer, and artistic director of Maqamat Dance Theatre. His work, intense and powerful, has made an essential and significant contribution to the establishment of a contemporary dance scene in Lebanon. He established his company in Beirut in 2002 and since then he
has toured locally and internationally.

عمر راجح  كوريغراف وراقص، ومؤسس فرقة مقامات ومهرجان بايبود. يعيش في بيروت حيث عرفت أعماله بقوتها ومساهمتها بشكل كبير وفاعل في بناء مشهد للرقص المعاصر في لبنان. قدمت أعماله منذ ٢٠٠٢ في مسارح ومهرجانات محلية وعالمية. 

Anani Dodji Sanouvi Choreographer and dancer Anani  Sanouvi has been hailed for his ability to assimilate different traditions and disciplines into his own dynamic language. His creations have toured worldwide in Theaters as well as in Museums and Site Specific Locations. Laureate of Unesco, Africa Center and the Rolex ‘Mentor and Protégé’ Initiative, he has also collaborated with artists such as Peter Sellars, Anne Teresa De Keersmaker and Lee Bong Kyo.

أناني دودجي سانوڤي  راقص ومصمم رقص توغولي. عرف بقدرته على جمع مختلف التقاليد في أسلوب ديناميكي خاص به. جابت أعماله أوروبا والولايات المتحدة الأميركية والشرق العربي وأفريقيا. سانوڤي حائز على جائزة ؛رولكس  المرموقة وقد عمل وتعاون مع فنانين مثل بيتر سيلرز وآن تيريزا دي كيرشماكر. 
  
Hiroaki Umeda Hiroaki Umeda is a pluridisciplinary artist: choreographer, dancer, sound, image and lighting designer. His work is both minimal and radical, subtle and violent, and very much in touch with his contemporary Japanese roots. In 2000 Hiroaki Umeda founded his company S20 and has performed many of his dance pieces throughout the world. Hiroaki Umeda currently lives and works in Tokyo.

هيرواكي أوميدا هو فنان متعدد المواهب والاختصاصات: من تصميم الرقص والرقص إلى إدارة الصوت والصورة والأضواء. تتميز أعماله ببساطتها وعمقها في آن، برقتها وعنفها وبارتباطها الوثيق بجذوره اليابانية المعاصرة. عام 2000، أنشأ هيرواكي أوميدا شركته S20 وقام بتقديم عروضه في مختلف أرجاء العالم.  يقيم أوميدا اليوم في طوكيو ويعمل فيها. 

Koen Augustijnen Koen Augustijnen has been working closely with Les Ballets C de la B since 1991, initially as a dancer in performances staged by Alain Platel. From 1997 till 2013 he was one of the dance company’s house choreographers. His principal training and work experience has been firmly rooted in his staging of performances as a member of Les Ballets C de la B. Apart from Les Ballets C de la B he often joins forces with theatre companies. As with Ivo Van Hove (Toneelgroep Amsterdam), Toneelgezelschap STAN and Chokri ben Chika to name but a few.

كون أوغوستينن  منذعام 1991 يعمل كون بشكل وثيق مع “بالية س دو لا ب” بصفته راقصا في عروض لآلان بلاتيل.  بين 1997 و2013 بدأ بتصميم  عروضة   الخاصة التي لاقت حضوراً عالمياً مهماً. تعود خبرته وتدريبه بشكل رئيس إلى العروض التي قدمها كعضو من أعضاء “بالية س دو لا ب”  

About the composers
Le Trio Joubran, Samir, Wissam, and Adnan, accompanied by Youssef Hbeisch a sophisticated and unique oriental percussionist, have been enchanting their audiences through oudic virtuosity since 2004. Captivating local and international listeners with unparalleled and innovative compositions played on their handmade ouds by the artisan Wissam Joubran. Together they seek musical change and growth, influencing the global cultural scene and narrative about Palestine with their unique sound.

الثلاثي جبران: ثلاثة أشقاء من فلسطين ينحدرون من عائلة عرفت بصناعة آلات العود والعزف عليها منذ أربعة أجيال.. ورث إذًا سمير ووسام وعدنان هذا الفنّ أبَّا عن جدّ وحوّلوا العود إلى شغفِ، إلى مهارةِ ،لا بل إلى حياة... يعدّ إتقانهم للعود  أمرَا لا مثيل له وكذلك الحال بالنسبة للانسجام والتزامن في أدائهم مهما اختلف المكان والجمهور فوحدة هذا الثلاثي قائمة على الأصالة والتنوّع.  يرافقهم على النقر المبدع يوسف حبيش الذي يغني ألحانهم بإضفاء سحره على الإيقاع والنوتات الموسيقية. 
  
About the performance

Four choreographers and four musicians, with different artistic experiences and ideas, coming from different continents, cultures, and countries, are meeting onstage over a banquet of food. They talk, drink, laugh, dance, and prepare food together. A simple meeting that would be a starting point to a more complex choreographic and conceptual performance structure. 'Beytna' is an invitation to the home of the other, to the artist's profession and choreographic construction. It is an invitation that confirms diversity, touches on forms and situations of the past, and searches for a new rhythm, pattern, and logic.
Duration: 80 minutes 

يجتمع أربعة مصممي رقص وأربعة موسيقيين، من قارات وثقافات وبلدان مختلفة، على المسرح حول مأدبة غداء. لكل منهم خبرات فنية مميزة وأفكاراً مختلفة. هم يتحدّثون، يشربون، يضحكون، يرقصون ويعدون الطعام سويّاً، لتشكّل بساطة هذا اللقاء انطلاقة لبناء هيكلية أداء أوسع على مستوى التصميم والإبداع والخيال. "بيتنا" هو لقاء أو دعوة لتأكيد الإختلاف، لتلمّس الأشكال والحالات التي طبعت الماضي، وللبحث عن إيقاع حي يجمعنا. 

Cast & Credits

Performed by Koen Augustijnen, May Bou Matar, Adnan Joubran, Samir Joubran, Wissam Joubran, Youssef N. M. Hbaisch, Omar Rajeh, Anani Sanouvi, Hiroaki Umed
Choreographed by Koen Augustijnen, Omar Rajeh, Anani Sanouvi, and Hiroaki Umed
Music Composition Le Trio Joubran
Concept & direction Omar Rajeh
Scenography & costumes Mia Habis
Lighting design Victor Duran Manzano
Graphic design & video animation Joe Elias/Nimslabs
Tailor Georges Jamo
Photography Tony Elieh
Produced by: Maqamat Beit El Raqs
Co-produced by: BIPOD-Beirut International Platform of Dance, Tanzquartier Wien, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, CCN de La Rochelle / Cie Accrorap-Direction Kader Attou, Theater im Pfalzbau-Ludwigshaven, and Fondazione Fabbrica Europa.
Sponsored by: FNB - First National Bank and WARDE
Photo by Tony Elieh
Special thanks to Nathalie Karam

Website: www.maqamat.org

About the choreographer

Jadd Tank is an up & coming choreographer and performer based in New York City. After studying politics and dance at the University of Colorado, he has traveled around the world working with incredible artists such as Michelle Ellsworth, Omar Rajeh, Tara Rynders, Cristina Goletti, Marcel Leemann and Erika Randall. His work consists of theatrical expression and movement that explores the human condition as it is experienced in today's political and socioeconomic climate.

جاد تانك مصمم رقص صاعد وراقص في مدينة نيويورك. بعد دراسته العلوم السياسية والرقص في جامعة كولورادو، سافر حول العالم وعمل مع فنانين مهّمين أمثال عمر راجح، ميشيل ايلسوورث، مارسيل ليمان، كريستينا غوليتي، تارا رايندرز واريكا راندال. عمله عبارة عن تعابير وحركات مسرحيّة  تتطرّق إلى الوضع الإنساني الذي تشهده الساحة السياسية والاقتصادية والاجتماعية اليوم.عن العرض

About the performance

What is freedom and why do we need it? Who do we need it from? The chase is perpetual, like a carrot on a stick. Our miniature wins are celebrated. Our flags and statues erected. But the cycle never ends. It is grotesque and gaudy and it makes for a beautiful performance. LIBERTÉ TOUJOURS is a feverish pursuit of freedom. If LIBERTÉ TOUJOURS means absolutely nothing to you, don’t stress. That is totes okay. It’s not for everyone. Cool, thanks.
Duration: 30 minutes

ما هي الحرية؟ لمَ نحن بحاجة إليها؟ ممّن نريدها؟ السعي في هذه المسألة دائمٌ أبديّ. نحتفل بأصغر انتصاراتنا. نرفع أعلامنا وتماثيلنا. لكنّ الدوامة لا تنتهي. إنها دوامة غريبة وبشعة في الوقت عينه ولكنها تصلح لأداء جميل. LIBERTÉ TOUJOURS هو سعي محموم إلى الحرية. ولو أن LIBERTÉ TOUJOURS لا تعني شيئًا البتة لك فلا داعي للتوتر، إنّه لأمر طبيعي فهذا السعي ليس للجميع. حسنا، أثلج قلبي، شكرا.

Cast & Credits 

Dancer/Choreographer: Jadd Tank Music: Arturo Sandoval – When It’s Sleep Time Down South Arturo Sandoval – Coloratura Concerto for Soprano (First Movement) Ultra Nate – Free (Mood II Swing Extended Vocal) Major Lazer – Sweat (feat. Laidback Luke & Ms. Dynamite) Marwa – Motreb Hambolli Fatme Serhan – Yali Labsa Altob

New creation

About the choreographer

Sharaf DarZaid is a Palestinian refugee from occupied Beit Nabala village. He was born in Ramallah/ Palestine when the 1st intifada started 1987. DarZaid is a dancer in El-Funoun dance troupe since 2001. He performed in many local and international dance shows. Sharaf choreographed four productions: “Follow the light” (Palestine, 2013), “Me, We” (Germany, 2014), “Degrees of Grey” (France, 2014), “Real Talk” (Palestine, 2015), he also co-choreographed many other dance productions. Sharaf has masters in Art Management and works at Popular Art Centre. 

شرف دارزيد لاجئ فلسطيني من قرية بيت نبالا المحتلة. ولد في رام الله في فلسطين مع بدء الانتفاضة الأولى عام 1987. دارزيد راقص مع فرقة الفنون منذ عام 2001. شارك في عروض رقص محليّة وعالميّة وقام بتصميم أربعة إنتاجات: “Follow the light”(فلسطين 2013), “Me, We” (ألمانيا 2014)، “Degrees of Grey” (فرنسا 2014)، “Real Talk”(فلسطين 2015)، كما شارك في تصميم أعمال رقص أخرى. يحمل شرف شهادة دراسات عليا في إدارة الفنون ويعمل في "مركز الفن الشعبي".

About the performance

The piece is about the conflict between tradition and modernity, about determination, freedom and hope.
Duration: 30 minutes

العرض  يدور حول الصراع بين التقليد والحداثة ، حول العزم والحرية و الأمل.


Cast & Credits
Dancer & choreographer: Sharaf DarZaid Music mixing: Ehab Haniyah Lighting designer: Atallah Tarazi Text: Mohammad Al-Safade 

About the company

MaHa Team started in 2013 in Tehran where Dance is forbidden and frowned upon. Without the presence of a single dance academy and from various backgrounds, it started out of a need that lead to the expression of the body, survival and creation.
  
بدأت "مجموعة ماها" عروضها عام 2013 في طهران. وبغياب أي مدرسة للرّقص، استهلت "مجموعة ماها" عروضها وهي التي انبثقت من خلفيات مختلفة ومن هذه الحاجة التي تدفع الإنسان إلى التعبير الجسدي والاستمرار والإبداع. 

About the performance

In 2015, Omar Rajeh was invited to Tehran to choreograph a piece for Ma Ha . Zaafaran is based on the idea of sacrifice; a notion very integrated in both our eastern cultures. This contemporary creation takes place on a Persian Carpet, a rich ground that reminisces a past, no longer present.

Duration: 60 minutes

عام 2015، دُعي عمر راجح إلى طهران لتصميم عرض لـ"ماها". يقوم عرض Zaafaran على فكرة التضحية كمفهوم متجذر في الثقافة الشرقية. يقدم هذا العرض المعاصر على سجادة عجميةٍ، على أرضٍ غنية تعيد إحياء ماض مضى.  

Cast & Credits

Choreography | Omar Rajeh Dance | Mitra Ziaee Kia & Mostafa Shabkhan ‘Tompak’ (Goblet Drum) | Ali Taleie Costume Design | Reza Nadimi Lighting Design |  Production | MaHa Team With support from The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tehran and Maqamat Dance Theatre in Beirut

About the choreographer

Ghida Hachicho is a dancer and scenographer based in Beirut. She graduated with a bachelor degree in architecture from the American University of Beirut in 2012, where she was granted several awards and recognition. She uses performance and installation to explore the overlap or intersection: between the architectural space and the moving body or the architectural body and the moving space. It is a possibility for space to become performance and for movement to become a new space. "Traces of Absence” is her first collaborative performance with designer, visual artist and teacher at AUB, Karim Farah.  It was recently presented in Beirut in 2015.
Duration: 35 minutes

غيدا حشيشو راقصة وسينوغراف تقيم في بيروت. حازت عام 2012، على إجازة في الهندسة المعمارية من الجامعة الأميركية  في بيروت حيث حصلت على جوائز عديدة وتمّ التنويه بأدائها. تستخدم غيدا الأداء والسينوغرافيا لاكتشاف التداخل والاندماج بين المساحة الهندسية والجسم المتحرك أو بين الجسم الهندسي والمساحة المتحركة. إنها فرصةٌ لكي تصبح المساحة أداء ولكي تضحي الحركة مساحة جديدة. "Traces of Absence” هو أوّل عرض لها مع كريم فرح المصمم والفنان التشكيلي والمدرس في الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت.

About the performance

Can poems manifest as movement and visuals? Contemplations, memories and words, are no more than a gesture of the body, fleeting sounds and passing images. In the performance movement, moments, and time lost, observations of life within time, are distillations or isolation of moments or continuities. The body sculpts within space a time. Using rhythm, we attempt to grasp the imperceptible within movement's continuum. Extreme variances in speed put present perception into relation with its immediate past, moments dissolve into emptiness. Absence is reconstituted with traces of memory.

هل للقصائد ان تتجسد حركة وصور؟ التأملات، الذاكرة، الكلمات، ليست سوى ايماءة جسد، انسياب اصوات وصور تمرّ في الزمن. في هذا العرض نفترض أن الحركة واللحظة ومرور الوقت هم تشكيلات الحياة داخل الزمن. تكثيف وعزلة للوقت كلحظات واستمرارية. جسد ينحت ضمن الفضاء وقتا. عبر توظيف الايقاع نحاول الامساك بغير المدرك في تواصل الحركة، وعبر اختلاف سرعة الحركة نواجه الادراك الآني بعلاقته مع ماضيه المباشر. اللحظات المفردة تتماهى مع الفراغ. ملامح الغياب تتشكل من بقايا الذاكرة.


Cast & Credits

Concept and direction: Ghida Hachicho and Karim Farah
Dance: Ghida Hachicho
Music: Faouzi Halabi
Dramaturgy: Clara Sfeir
Video: Karim Farah

Performance in Beirut is supported by Institut Francais du Liban | Institut Francais Paris

About the company

Aïcha M'Barek and Hafiz Dhaou began their training with the Sybel Ballet Company in Tunisia. after studies at the Cinematographic Magrébin Film Institute in Tunis, they integrated the Higher School of the CNDC Angers. Aicha M'Barek   and Hafiz Dhaou created many works together that were presented in la Biennale de la Danse in Lyon, Bonlieu Scène Nationale in Annecy, Avignon Festival. In 2011, invited by the Ballet de Lorraine in Nancy, they create “UN DES SENS” for 28 dancers. In 2003 Hafiz Dhaou integrates EX.ERCE. In 2014 associated to la Maison de la Danse de Lyon they create Sacré Printemps!

استهلت عايشة مبارك وحفيظ ضهو تدريبهما مع فرقة "سيبيل باليه" في تونس. وبعد استكمال دراستهما في معهد السينما والأفلام في العاصمة تونس، التحقا بالمدرسة الثانوية في "المركز الوطني للرقص المعاصر" في آنجيه، فرنسا. أعدّا سويّا عدداّ كبيرا من الأعمال التي عرضت في مهرجان ليون للرقص، وفي مهرجان أڤينيون. عام 2011، قاما بتصميم “UN DES SENS” لـ28 راقصًا وذلك بدعوة من The Ballet de Lorraineفي نانسي. عام 2013، كان حفيظ ضو قد انضمّ إلى برنامج EX.ERCE للدّراسات العليا المتعلقة بالنظرية والتطبيق في مجال تصميم الرقص. عام 2014، انضما إلى la Maison de la Danse في مدينة ليون وصمّما Sacré Printemps.

About the performance

For years Aïcha M’Barek and Hafiz Dhaou have been developing a specific grammar in order to undermine the censorship of the former regime. For their new piece, SACRÉ PRINTEMPS! they have edited this language of movement under the omen of the Arab spring and invited various musicians into the studio, including Sonia M’Barek, one of the country’s best-known female singers, in order to express Tunisia’s many voices. In the distant echo of Stravinksy’s ‘The Rite of Spring’, the choreography duo resolutely proclaim their rite of spring and stay true to their inimitable style and special flair for choreographic phrasing. M’Barek and Dhaou have a clear message: ‘Let’s liberate the spring!’
Duration: 60 minutes

 عن العرض على مر سنوات عديدة، طوّرت عايشة مبارك وحفيظ ضو قواعد محدّدة لتقويض القيود التي كان النظام السابق يفرضها. أما لعملهم الجديد  SACRÉ PRINTEMPS! فقد عدّلا لغة الحركة هذه مع بروز الربيع العربي، وقاما بدعوة عدد من الموسيقيين إلى الاستوديو ومنهم سونيا مبارك إحدى المغنيات الأكثر شهرةً في البلاد، وذلك بهدف التعبير عن مختلف الأصوات التونسية. وكصدى بعيد ل"The Rite of Spring"- "طقوس الربيع" لترافينسكي، يعلن الثنائي عن طقوس الربيع الخاصة بهما مع الإبقاء على أسلوبهما الفريد وميلهما إلى التعبير بشكل خاص من خلال تصاميمهما. رسالة مبارك وضو واضحة: "فلنحرّر الربيع!"

Cast & Credits

Concept and coreoghaphy Aïcha M’Barek, Hafiz Dhaou  Dancers Hafiz Dhaou, Gregory Alliot, Aïcha M’Barek, Johanna Mandonnet, Stéphanie Pignon, Rolando Rocha
Illustration Dominique Simon 
Light designer Xavier Lazarini
Light manager Sandrine Faure
Sound manager Christophe Zurfluh
Music Éric Aldéa, Ivan Chiossone with the participation of Sonia M’Barek
Text Poème Horrya – Freefom by Khaled Waghlani interpreted by Sonia M’Barek
Production management and diffusion Simge Gücük
Production CHATHA
Co-production Maison de la Danse de Lyon, Bonlieu scène nationale Annecy, Théâtre Macon - Scène nationale, Centre de Développement Chorégraphique Les Hivernales - Avignon, Théâtre Louis Aragon - scène conventionnée danse - Tremblay-en-France,Grande Halle de La Villette, Centre Dramatique National de Haute - Normandie, Scène Nationale de Petit – Quevilly / Mont - Saint - Aignan
With the collaboration of
Institut Français de Tunisie, Le Toboggan, Décines
With the support of Adami.
Chatha is subsidized by DRAC Rhône-Alpes and Rhône-Alpes Regional Council.
Chatha is supported by FIACRE Rhône-Alpes and by the French Institute for international projects.

Chloe‘s first class degree is in Drama from the University of Hull. She has designed for companies in the UK and around the world. Her work has taken her throughout Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Iran, Dubai, and Singapore. She teaches lighting design for the University of London, Rose Bruford College, Old Vic theatre, and mentors students at Central School of Speech and Drama. She works alongside students at RADA and Mountview Academy, designing productions. This workshop is to gain a theoretical, practical and technical understanding of lighting design, enabling participants to respond to stimuli, text and the rehearsal process with creative lighting concepts. Exploring lighting as a concept and a creative art, an integral design element, covering a wide range of topics, from the work of historical lighting designers, to colour theory and teamwork communication.

Workshop supported by  British Council in Beirut

The goal of a physical introduction to The Return of The Modern Dance, and Against the Current, Glow is to offer the audience a platform for the study of the productions’ physical content.
Both works were created with the principle that the body consists of an archive of tools. The body holds the experience of a lifetime and has the ability to cause bodily experiences through imagination and interpretations of others' stories.
In the introduction, several techniques are tried out through play, touch, movement and exercises to explore the body's capacity, knowledge, intelligence, reflex, gender and memory. The workshop is intended for participants between 10-70 years, non-professional dancers as well as professionally active.

Photo by: Thomas Zamolo

The workshop is from 11 am to 3 pm. It is based on the vocabulary of the work used in GN|MC creation processes and researches, tasks and points of departure to start opening up a world of imagination where body is treated from very different points of view. We search for mechanics, observe movement in order to multiply paths and approaches to the understanding of movement and body. We are interested in looking into the possibilities that the body offers and how we make it to arise those possibilities.

Photo copyright: Guy Nader | Maria Campos

The workshop is from 11 am to 1 pm. It will enable participants to work with senior dancers from Akram Khan Company and provide an exciting opportunity to work side-by-side with artists of the recent revival production Kaash. Kaash (Hindi word for “if only”) continued Akram Khan’s quest to build bridges between the worlds of contemporary dance and the Indian classical dance form Kathak. The starting points for the original piece in 2002 included the symbolism of traditional Hindu Gods as representations of rhythmical patterns and specific movement. This workshop will explore some of the techniques used to develop the repertoire, and Akram Khan’s distinct contemporary dance style drawing upon principles of Kathak, such as its gestural detailing, precision of line and focus, and extremities of speed.

Photo by Jean Louis Fernandez

CONTEMPORARY DANCE IN LEBANON AND PALESTINE
FAITH STEVENSON

Faith is a dance artist and scholar currently finishing her Master of Fine Arts degree in Performance and Choreography at the University of Hawaiʻi. Faith continues to teach dance, perform, and choreograph. She is particularly intrigued by the intersection of choreography and global and social matters. Her current choreographic research explores the idea of material commodification expressed through dance.

ABOUT THE MOVIE
 The movie shares my research of contemporary dance choreography in Lebanon and Palestine, specifically from the Sarayett Ramallah Dance Company and Maqamat Dance Theatre.  In particular, it looks at the connection of choreography and traumatic experiences caused by conflict, and how this conflict informs the subject matter and processes of choreography.

ORENDA
BY JANA YOUNES

Jana Georges Younes is an avid dancer and choreographer with a keen interest in dance filmmaking. After directing a short experimental documentary "Moving Philosophy" -where she applied Laban movement theories to the body of the camera-, Jana's film debut,Orenda, that she also directed, choreographed and starred in, got attributed a special mention from the jury at the 21st European Film Festival Awards for the Lebanese Students Best Short Films. Jana has been enriching her knowledge in cineographic dance and choreographic cinema by attending workshops around the world. She is currently in the post-production phase of her upcoming short dance film starring Jens Bjerregard (Aurora Borealis) and Giulia Barbone.

ABOUT THE MOVIE
Orenda is a short that explores the notion of love, loss, and the time it takes to travel between the two. It tells the story of a girl who transports her dying lover into the realm of time in hopes of making him live longer.

Starring Jana G. Younes & Pierre Khadra
Directed & Choreographed by Jana G. Younes
Director of Photography: Karim Ghorayeb
Editor: Noel Paul
Music & Sound design: Cedric Kayem

DEMENTIA
BY VAHID GOOSSUN

Vahid is an award-winning filmmaker and theatre director. He was born in Iran and lived there until the year 2001 when he went to Denmark to study with Eugenio Barba and Odin Teatret. He specializes in training performers (actors and dancers) with the method he has developed since 2006. THE COUNTER INSTITUTETCI was established in 2014 as a not-for-profit art and cultural organization that is set to produce artistic projects and facilitate cultural activities that are innovative, relevant and experimental both artistically and productionally.

ABOUT THE MOVIE
“Recently you asked me why I maintain that I am afraid of you. As usual, I was unable to think of my answer to your question, partly for the very reason that I am afraid of you, and partly because an explanation of the grounds for this fear would mean going into far more details than I could even approximately keep in mind while talking.”

Director & producer: Vahid
Music: Odysseas Konstantopoulos & Daniel Rudholm
Editor: Ronit Meranda
Performers: Sandra Karinsdotter, Daniel Rudholm & Ai Kuo
Choreographer: Ai Kuo & Vahid
Cinematographer: Vahid Goossun
Co-production: doublExpose Ltd.
Produced by The Counter Institute © 2016
Shot on location in Istanbul and Stockholm.
Special thanks to: Teater Sláva, A Corner in The World Festival, KÖŞE and Claire Zerhouni
Photo copyright: Counter Institute

TIME TAKES THE TIME TAKES
BY GN| MC & GUS&LO

GN|MC Guy Nader | Maria Campos is an independent ensemble based in Barcelona, Spain, since 2006. The Lebanese and Spanish artists have collaborated in different creations presented in international festivals and venues, their work has been presented in The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Lebanon and South Korea. Guy Nader graduated (BA in Drama) from Institut National des Beaux Arts at the Lebanese University in Beirut. He recieved the danceWEB Europe scholarship in 2012 and he was awarded the first prize in Masdanza International Festival in 2010 for his solo Where The Things Hide. He is a resident artist in La Caldera, Barcelona.  Maria Campos studied at SEAD in Austria and graduated from the Amsterdam School of the Arts (MTD) in 2003. She has worked with Meekers, Protein Dance, Sol Picó, Angels Margarit/Cia. Mudances, among others.

ABOUT THE MOVIE
This is a video dance of excerpts of the scenic piece TIME TAKES THE TIME TIME TAKES by GN|MC.  TTTTTT is a physical dynamic conversation through movement repetitions and pendulum leitmotiv that embodies mechanisms measuring time and space. A journey of dangling movements that burst into different encounters evolving towards a perpetual mobile. An ongoing wheel that suggests time as a continuum. A film recorded in places where the passage of time is visible.

CONCEPT by GN|MC Guy Nader | Maria Campos
A FILM by GUS&LO
MUSIC by MIGUEL MARIN
DANCERS: MARIA CAMPOS, THAIS HVID, GUY NADER, ROSER TUTUSAUS, MAGÍ SERRA
CLOTHES by ZAZO&BRULL
MAKE UP by RAFIT NOY | moroccanoil
Shot with RED Dragon and Canon EF lens
SPECIAL THANKS TO: OCTOCAMVISION | JOEL LOPEZ CABRE INCASÒL | CAN PADRÓ | MANUEL LOSADA | ESPAI GUASCH
PHOTO CREDIT: Lorena Parra

MIA HABIS / “ROOM” AT CODA FESTIVAL
BY NEIL NISBET

Room is a performance by dancer Mia Habis (LE), pianist Cynthia Zaven (LE) and drummer Øyvind Skarbø (NO). The performance is a conversation between the three artists and the outcome of a 2 week creative residency in Beirut in 2014. It was presented at the Crypt of St. Joseph’s Church during the debut edition of CO2- Choreographers and Composers – the collaborative performance platform formed by BIPOD and IRTIJAL.
Room was then presented in CODA festival’s tenth edition in October 2015. The video is a documentary made by A former professional dancer  and current video producer and writer Neil Nisbet for CODA festival.
Since 2011 Mia Habis has developed her work in creating “body installations”. She is a dancer, performance maker and dance teacher at Maqamat Dance House in Lebanon, directed by Omar Rajeh and since 2015, the artistic director of BIPOD- Beirut International Platform of Dance.
Cynthia Zaven is an artist based in Beirut. She has performed in various venues for contemporary and improvised music and has composed original scores and sound designs for film, theater, dance, and conceptual art projects.
Øyvind Skarbø is a Norwegian drummer, composer and producer. He studied with Terje Isungset, and also studies in Norwegian, Cuban and Yoruba traditional music. He has received several awards and stipends. Skarbø performs and records regularly with his own bands 1982 and Bly de Blyant.

Dance & choreography: Mia Habis
Piano composition: Cynthia Zaven
Drum composition: Øyvind Skarbø
Support: The performance is produced by Maqamat Dance Theatre and CO2 Choreographers & Composers in partnership with the Norwegian Embassy in Beirut and Performing Arts Hub Norway.
Photo credit: Neil Nisbet