© Tony Elieh

Beytna

Omar Rajeh
Date
Apr 6, 2016
Hour
8:30 PM
Duration
1h 20m

About

"Beytna," is a unique dance performance around the concept of sharing, where four choreographers and four musicians from Lebanon, Korea, Palestine, Belgium, and Togo come together over a banquet of food. Despite their diverse cultural backgrounds and artistic experiences, they reshape a communal and traditional family reunion into an artistic meeting of dance, music, and cooking. Witness as they talk, drink, laugh, dance, and eat, transforming this simple gathering into an intricate, captivating performance. "Beytna" invites you into a world of compassion, and friendship. It is a simple invitation into the home of the other. An invitation to the artist's profession and choreographic statement, as much as it is to the forms and situations of the past.
© Paul Bourdrel
With good friends … and good food on board … we may well ask, when shall we live if not now?
- M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating

Maqamat

Maqamat is a dance company that was established in Beirut in 2002 by Omar Rajeh and moved to Lyon in 2020 in the perspective of developing its creative and cultural projects in France and internationally. It played a major role in the organization, creation and establishment of a contemporary dance scene in Lebanon and the region. It has founded major dance projects such as BIPOD-Beirut International Platform of Dance, Takween, an intensive training program, Moultaqa Leymoun, a showcase platform supporting artists from different Arab countries and more recently the digital platform Citerne.live.

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