OPEN CALL for Telescope Beirut

Organised within SHIFT

A Creative Europe Project Funded by the European Commission

We are thrilled to announce an open call for dancers and choreographers to participate in Telescope Beirut, taking place from 4 to 10 April 2025 in Beirut, Lebanon.

Telescope Beirut is a one week creative lab offering a unique lens to explore, magnify, and discover new perspectives in dance and performance. Artists selected from across Europe and the Mediterranean will be accompanied by a group of professionals to advise, support, and inspire their ongoing projects.

This open call invites dancers and choreographers to apply with an ongoing project and participate in a 7-day mentorship lab; a week of dynamic exchanges, workshops, experimentation, open presentations and creation. Telescope Beirut aims to reimagine performance practices while fostering meaningful connections, enhancing skills, and expanding knowledge.

With guidance from a local and international team of experts, the participants will explore creating for non-dedicated performance spaces and challenge conventional creative approaches. The project is committed to supporting selected artists in their creative journeys while raising awareness of new possibilities in creation, participation, engagement, and ecological behavior.

Selected participants will contribute to this unique artistic journey and become part of the broader SHIFT project spanning Europe and the Mediterranean.

Deadline: Applications must be submitted by 31 January 2025.

Requirements:

• Please fill out the online application form

• Applicants must have created at least one full evening dance creation.

• The submitted project must be in progress and not yet presented or showcased.

• Artists must be interested in exploring different forms and approaches of engaging with an audience

• Please Include a full video link of one previous work and other short teasers if needed.

• Applicants must be based in a European or Mediterranean city.

Join us in shaping the future of dance and performance!

For more information, info@maqamat.org

Telescope Beirut is organised within SHIFT, a Creative Europe cooperative project, funded by the European Commission, and led by Cie Omar Rajeh & Maqamat, Fondazione Fabbrica Europa per le arti contemporanee, and Albania Dance Meeting.

SHIFT - Shaping Harmony, Innovating Forms and Thought

SHIFT, which stands for ‘Shaping Harmony, Innovating Forms & Thought’, aims to transform the way dance is experienced and presented. It questions the forms of space organization in people’s lives culturally, politically and socially. The project seeks to explore new formats of artistic expression, community engagement, and audience interaction, involving artists, experts, and citizens from multiple EU and Mediterranean countries.

By fostering a shift from mere observation to active participation and immersion, SHIFT focuses on investigating new spatial relationships, and shifting the emphasis from 'visual aesthetics' in conventional venues to dynamic 'aesthetics of action' in adaptable, non-dedicated performance spaces.

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