Prelude to Violence / Ghida Hachicho
Saturday, 20 June, 2026 @ 16h30 - Les Subs
Performance
50 min
Les Subs
The Gombe Chimpanzee War (1974–78) was a violent conflict between two chimpanzee groups, the Kasakela and the Kahama, observed and documented by Jane Goodall in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. Marked by territorial expansion, organized aggression, and planned attacks including instances of cannibalism, the conflict resulted in the systematic elimination of the Kahama group.
Using the form of a documentary, the performance examines the processes and contexts through which territorial violence takes shape. By reconstructing and retracing individual and collective behaviors, movements, and spatial incidents, it studies how such violence is enacted, rehearsed, and enforced.
Ghida Hachicho is an artist, choreographer and set-designer based in Beirut. She holds an MA in performance from Goldsmiths, University of London and a BFA in architecture from the American University of Beirut. In 2017 she took part in the “Home Workspace Program” at Ashkal Alwan. She works with different mediums, mainly choreography and installation. Choreography here is expanded beyond the dancing body, not only as a practice of aesthetics but also as the social and historical processes of organizing bodies, their relationships and arrangement in time and space. Her projects include “Studies on the movement of a group” (2021) “Beyond a certain point movement itself changes” (2019), “Studies on movement” (2019-2017).
Ghida Hachicho
Cast & Credits
Concept & direction: Ghida Hachicho, Interpretation & performance: Mounzer Baalbaki, Ghida Hachicho, Music & sound design: Shakeeb Abu Hamdan, Lighting design: Ricardo Clemente
Support Credits
Coproduced by Cie Omar Rajeh & Maqamat, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Festival Aperto Reggio Emilia.
Residencies supported by the residency programme at PACT Zollverein (Essen), Culture Resource, and Amadeus – École de danse et de musique.