“The body is a sacred place, because it bursts with life, and lasts briefly.” – Etel Adnan
The body symphonic is a performance-concert that observes the body as a site of resistance. The work engages with the body as it journeys through rituals of excavation–revealing new and unbound mythologies that allow for a limitless agency of self-representation and rootedness. Created in response to the multiple political and geopolitical crises in Lebanon, the body symphonic is a meditation on the body’s place in the struggle against occupation, where looking back, looking in and looking forward become acts of steadfastness and strategies for liberation
Credits:
• Direction: Charlie Khalil Prince • Performance: Charlie Khalil Prince, Joss Turnbull • Music: Charlie Khalil Prince, Joss Turnbull with samples and recordings from the voice of Mouneer Saeed, from Mustafa Said’s IntoThe Silent Zone في رحاب الضمت and an excerpt from Sextant by Stellar Banger • Lighting design: Joe Levasseur • Dramaturgy: Erin Hill •
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