bipod 2020
beirut international platform of dance
BIPOD - Beirut international Platform of Dance
16th Edition | 25 November to 1 December 2020
On Citerne.live
Housed by Les SubsistancesBIPOD - Beirut International Platform of Dance has played a major role in the development and establishment of a contemporary dance scene in Lebanon. It was founded, by Maqamat in 2004, and has become one of the most awaited dance festivals in the region. It attracts around 5000 spectators each year and offers a rich international program of local and international performances, debates, video dance, conferences and workshops. From November 25 to December 1st , the 16th edition of BIPOD will be hosted at Les Subsistances in Lyon and live streamed in real time from six different cities on www.citerne.live.
Opening
Alexandre Paulikevitch - Guest artist
Simultaneous translation available FR/EN.
Performances
About Cie Alias
Alias is an independent contemporary dance company created in Geneva in 1994 by the dancer and choreographer Guilherme Botelho. Since its inception, the company has produced more than twenty-five shows crowned by international success, as reflected by the nearly five hundred performances given in twenty countries of Europe, Africa, Asia, and North and South America. Alias’ creations cast a shrewd, uncompromising look on our daily lives. The company has made of mission of seeing through appearances and unravelling habits, calling our convictions into question, and searching for hidden, unexplored or unusual points of view.
Cast & Credits
Support credits
About Maha
MāHa is created by the body and meditating on the body itself, it aims at reminding us of passion and expressing it through movement, emphasizing on perception from the environment, action and reaction, effect and affect, individual worldview, learning and education. By designing and performing the movements, MāHa attempts to represent a narrative of the world, appreciate the sensation of the universe and, through the participation and sympathy of others, move a step closer towards promoting the art of dance and choreography.
Cast & Credits
Support Credits
Co-produced and supported by Citerne Beirut and BIPOD- Beirut International Platform of Dance
About the artist
Pierre Rigal was born in southern France in 1973. He studied mathematic economics in Toulouse and practiced track and field in parallel. At the age of 23, he discovered dance, took classes with numerous choreographers, among them Wim Vandekeybus, Philippe Decouflé, Nacera Belaza and worked with Gilles Jobin. In 2003, he founded the Compagnie dernière minute in Toulouse, for which he created more than 15 pieces.
Cast & Credits
Photo ©JihyeJung
Support
Production compagnie dernière minute, Gate theatre London
Coproduction Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Théâtre Garonne - Toulouse
With the support of Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs Occitanie / French Ministry of Culture and Communication, Region Occitanie / Pyrénées – Méditerranée and the City council of Toulouse. It is supported by the Departmental Council of Haute-Garonne and the convention Culturesfrance / Ville de Toulouse
Compagnie dernière minute is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture and Communication / Prefecture of the region Occitanie /Pyrénées-Méditerranée, the Region Occitanie and the City of Toulouse.
In the Bipod edition of Manufacture Sérielle, the artist collective from Berlin will present "La maison de Crémant va à Beyrouth (ou bien pas)" in which the three core artists Jochen Roller, Jule Flierl and Monika Gintersdorfer perform a virtual performance they would have created if they would have travelled to Beirut.About the artists
La Maison de Crémant is a loose collective of independent artists from Berlin who are in search of new ways of distributing art outside the neoliberal art system. With Manufacture Serielle they created a series of online performance on Zoom which brings together in a safe space artists from underprivileged production environments. For each edition of Manufacture Sérielle, up to five artists meet for one whole day in the internet to create a virtual performance together.
Cast & Credits
Support
NPN- mational Performance Netz | Goethe Institute in Beirut | Neu Start www.citerne.live
About the artists
La Maison de Crémant is a loose collective of independent artists from Berlin who are in search of new ways of distributing art outside the neoliberal art system. With Manufacture Serielle they created a series of online performance on Zoom which brings together in a safe space artists from underprivileged production environments. For each edition of Manufacture Sérielle, up to five artists meet for one whole day in the internet to create a virtual performance together.
Cast & Credits
Support
NPN- mational Performance Netz | Goethe Institute in Beirut | Neu Start
Oecumene is an interactive dance and music piece that reflects on the role of the individual in the world, with her senses expanded through technology beyond the limits of her geographical birthplace or cultural identity of origin. The Oecumene is a term that comes from the Alexandrian ideal of Cosmopolis: the world inhabited as a whole, as the common possession of the civilised humanity of free men and women. A concept developed in this creation for a dancer and immersive sound design, in which she enters and interacts with a sonic tapestry composed of thousands of phonemes coming from multiple places on the planet.About the artists
Integrated by Muriel Romero, Pablo Palacio and Daniel Bisig, INSTITUTO STOCOS is a project focused on the analysis, research and development of the interaction between body gesture, music and interactive visual imagery, integrating in a performative context abstraction taken from other disciplines such as artificial intelligence, biology, mathematics or experimental psychology. In their stage works the dancers interact with sonic and visual entities, allowing to alter and extend their bodily presence.
Cast & Credits
Infomus-Casa Paganini- Universitá di Genova (Italia) and Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology of Zurich (Suiza)- Production Instituto Stocos Co-production Citerne Beirut Supported by inaem , AC/E, H2020, Communidad Madrid.
About the artists
Integrated by Muriel Romero, Pablo Palacio and Daniel Bisig, INSTITUTO STOCOS is a project focused on the analysis, research and development of the interaction between body gesture, music and interactive visual imagery, integrating in a performative context abstraction taken from other disciplines such as artificial intelligence, biology, mathematics or experimental psychology. In their stage works the dancers interact with sonic and visual entities, allowing to alter and extend their bodily presence.
Cast & Credits
Infomus-Casa Paganini- Universitá di Genova (Italia) and Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology of Zurich (Suiza)- Production Instituto Stocos Co-production Citerne Beirut Supported by inaem , AC/E, H2020, Communidad Madrid.
Noctilūca explores the potential re-appropriation of a lost wild layer of being. In the pursuit of a disciplined and controlled society, sparks of dynamism and life force have been dulled. Awakening the tamed and penetrating the unknown, I reunite with my body, in the sway of a primordial tune.
About the artist
Yara Boustany is a dance/theater performer and choreographer based in Beirut. She is the founder Amalgam Studio in Beirut, a space for performers to develop their practice.Her interdisciplinary work is a poetical approach to the dilemmas of being human in a rapidly evolving society - technologically, scientifically and philosophically. She took part in national and international performances, including Beirut, Stuttgart, Ankara, Warsaw, London, Manchester, Liverpool, Chalon-sur-Saone and Athens.
Cast & Credits
Support
AFAC- Arab Fund for Arts and Culture | LAU- Lebanese American University
Special thanks to Ayman Baalbaki, Layal Boustany, Nader Bahsoun, Abbas Bayram, Aymeric Lorthiois
Noctilūca explores the potential re-appropriation of a lost wild layer of being. In the pursuit of a disciplined and controlled society, sparks of dynamism and life force have been dulled. Awakening the tamed and penetrating the unknown, I reunite with my body, in the sway of a primordial tune.
About the artist
Yara Boustany is a dance/theater performer and choreographer based in Beirut. She is the founder Amalgam Studio in Beirut, a space for performers to develop their practice.Her interdisciplinary work is a poetical approach to the dilemmas of being human in a rapidly evolving society - technologically, scientifically and philosophically. She took part in national and international performances, including Beirut, Stuttgart, Ankara, Warsaw, London, Manchester, Liverpool, Chalon-sur-Saone and Athens.
Cast & Credits
Support
AFAC- Arab Fund for Arts and Culture | LAU- Lebanese American University
Special thanks to Ayman Baalbaki, Layal Boustany, Nader Bahsoun, Abbas Bayram, Aymeric Lorthiois
Oyunu II is an interdisciplinary performance that revisits an imagined event in the history of East Mediterranean queer culture. It is Inspired by the banned culture of the köçek, which flourished from the 17th to the 19th century and had its origin in the 'harems' of Ottoman palaces. Oyunu is an immersive concert experience, through the eyes of a male dancer, that features traditional songs, electronic music, & belly dance. By bridging between tradition and contemporary life, the concert subtly explores controversial themes: masculinity, homoeroticism & islam.
About the artist
Khansa is a Lebanese performance and music artist, choreographer, and belly dancer who breaks stereotypes of traditional East Mediterranean values regarding masculinity, through his dancing and singing. His diverse cultural references range from religion to art, telling an untold story about his region. Khansa has been featured on Vice, BBC, Mille world, Culture trip, Plastik, Reorient Magazine, The Guardian, Stepfeed, and was chosen by L’Orient le jour, Liban as one of the top 16 Lebanese artists who made 2018.
Cast & Credits
Shady Chaaban Photographer
Support
AFAC- Arab Fund for Arts & Culture | LAU-Lebanese American University
www.citerne.liveOyunu II is an interdisciplinary performance that revisits an imagined event in the history of East Mediterranean queer culture. It is Inspired by the banned culture of the köçek, which flourished from the 17th to the 19th century and had its origin in the 'harems' of Ottoman palaces. Oyunu is an immersive concert experience, through the eyes of a male dancer, that features traditional songs, electronic music, & belly dance. By bridging between tradition and contemporary life, the concert subtly explores controversial themes: masculinity, homoeroticism & islam.
About the artist
Khansa is a Lebanese performance and music artist, choreographer, and belly dancer who breaks stereotypes of traditional East Mediterranean values regarding masculinity, through his dancing and singing. His diverse cultural references range from religion to art, telling an untold story about his region. Khansa has been featured on Vice, BBC, Mille world, Culture trip, Plastik, Reorient Magazine, The Guardian, Stepfeed, and was chosen by L’Orient le jour, Liban as one of the top 16 Lebanese artists who made 2018.
Cast & Credits
Shady Chaaban Photographer
Support
AFAC- Arab Fund for Arts & Culture | LAU-Lebanese American University
Documentary
About the artist
Did his audiovisual studies at ESAV in Geneva, Switzerland in the Video-Cinema section and a master's degree in new media at HEAD. He works as a freelance and co-founder of the association Videocraft and Sàrl MUR: 4. Stéphane has been active in the field of performing arts recording for more than 10 years with some forays into documentary for television either as a director or as an editor.
Cast & Credits
Stephane Darioly Filmmaker, images and editing
Lluvia de Sela Editing intern
With
Film Essay
About the artist
Born in Lebanon, Talal Khoury pursues a career in cinematography and works on numerous projects with renowned directors. His work and visual aesthetic is inspired by human tragedies.
Cast & Credits
Podcast
I was not Beirut on the day of the explosion, but I think the shock wave reached me. For days and days my stomach turned upside down. It's not just because this explosion hit my city and my country. It's also because the neighborhoods that have been affected are the neighborhoods of my childhood and adolescence, the neighborhoods where my closest Lebanese friends live and where I know every nook and cranny. I decided to visit them, get some news, walk the streets and measure the geographical and human modifications that this explosion induces.
www.citerne.live
Talks
In the panel discussion “Cartes Sur Table” we will discuss the kind of relationships and conversations needed these days. How do we broaden the pallet of relationships in the industry of culture, beyond the transactional relationships? How do we exchange our experiences, and values? What is a word like collaboration, or active citizenship meaning for you? Peggy OlislaegersDance Activist
Photo couch by Michael Gaida
Simultaneous translation available FR/EN.
Photo by Michael GaidaSimultaneous translation available FR/EN.
Photo by Michael Gaida
How do we continue to engage? What does it mean to be an audience these days? An observer? A witness? How are audience members perceiving our artistic actions, and how is that influencing the artistic decision making? How Can we inspire each other, yet not be afraid to be lost in translation? How do both audience members and artists take risks? Photo by Michael Gaida www.citerne.live
Photo by Michael Gaida
In the panel discussion “The Architecture of a Ruined Body” we are hoping to open a window of inspiration and motivation towards new possibilities of the future. Our main question for this panel will focus on “questioning the body in moments of crisis and disasters, questioning its remaining possibilities, vulnerabilities, resilience or revolt, and simply its being”. The body can refer to the actual human body, next to the society as a body, and the industry of culture as a body. Simultaneous translation available FR/EN.
Photo by Michael Gaida www.citerne.liveSimultaneous translation available FR/EN.
Photo by Michael GaidaMorning Coffee
Mia Habis, Director of BIPOD festival, meets the artists for a coffee. She wants to know more and discover things about their character, their work experience and what their morning or backstage looks like. An enjoyable and intimate moment away from the spotlights.
( Photo Pixabay)
Mia Habis, Director of BIPOD festival, meets the artists for a coffee. She wants to know more and discover things about their character, their work experience and what their morning or backstage looks like. An enjoyable and intimate moment away from the spotlights. ( Photo Pixabay) www.citerne.live
( Photo Pixabay)
An intimate talk with Nadra Assaf to go through her journey as a choreographer and educator in Lebanon, and to shed light on other dance education initiatives and artistic possibilities. Simultaneous translation available FR/EN.
( Photo Pixabay) www.citerne.liveSimultaneous translation available FR/EN.
( Photo Pixabay)Workshop
Supported by the Goethe Institute in Beirut.
Supported by the Goethe Institute in Beirut.
Supported by the Goethe Institute in Beirut.
Partners
SPONSORED BY
ASV - Ameublement Saint Vincent