Racha Baroud

Racha Baroud is a Lebanese performer and director. She holds a Masters in Theatre Studies from Sorbonne Nouvelle and trained in L’Atelier du Jeu led by Jacques Fontaine. She later focused on physical work with Studio Matejka, based in the Grotowski Institute in Poland and deepened her craft in the frame of several workshops in Europe particularly among Alessio Castellacci, Irena Tomazin and Theodoros Terzopoulo. In 2015, she staged her first performance Today was my birthday, a musical tribute to the theater of Tadeusz Kantor. In 2020, she co-directed the documentary Ali, Hachem et Khaled in collaboration with Roy Arida. In May 2022, she presented her latest piece What if those tears were not only mine?, a performance about unconscious heritage. In 2023, she began a performative research in collaboration with the patients of the Malévoz psychiatric hospital in Switzerland and is currently working on her next piece My Life is a Painting of Bosch.

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