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About
This 18th edition of BIPOD takes place in Lyon & Beirut, with a live streaming program on Citerne.live digital platform. We gathered a program of performances, videos, discussions, debates, experiences and conversations around the thematic of #cultural_disobedience. Opening a discussion about culture in relation to several artistic, social, and political concerns is an urgency today. How culture can intervene and engage in the social and political without losing its artistic drive and questions. And how much cultural dynamics are reflecting a scene of inclusion and equality. What does it mean to be an artist? A programmer? And what does it even mean to be an ‘active’ audience and why? It seems there is a vital need, on an artistic and curatorial level, to rethink our approaches to culture and question current operating dynamics. Our aspiration is to explore how inspiring ideas, that materialized themselves in theatres, festivals, companies, and collectives, can continue to rejuvenate, revitalize themselves, and serve their innovative purposes.
Abaya Road
Zeid HamdanAbaya Road is the latest of Zeid Hamdan's projects. This umpteenth musical formation allows this hyperactive producer to have...
Concerns OutLoud
Mia HabisKhouloud YassineBintou DembéléJulia MonclaA conversation at How much artists are protected and have the ability to decide their own paths. What do they need and how wo...
Caring, Daring, Sharing
Omar RajehPeggy OlislaegersRana KhouryPascal BrunetHope AzedaMaqamat organizes in partnership with the CND and the Relais Culture Europe, on May 6 and 7 in Lyon, meetings in several form...
Cartes sur Table - a future for dance in Ukraine?
Simon DoveAnton OvchinnikovPolina BulatHow do artists work in a war zone? How can artists safeguard a culture under threat of annihilation? What does courage and da...
Brainstorming/ Bodystorming with Peggy Olislaegers
Peggy OlislaegersJulia MonclaEmma DufiefMatthis Lainé SilasBérengère FournierClotilde AmprimozWhat does it mean to be an artist nowadays? In this lab internationally acclaimed dance activist Peggy Olislaegers will chall...
Corps, Conscience et Cosmos
Vania VaneauChristophe DemurLaurent ChevillardWhat are the links between the body consciousness and the cosmos? Or first of all, what is the body, the consciousness, the c...
Cinedans Program
CinedansCinedans curates a selective program of video-dance films for this edition of BIPOD.
ARA! ARA!
Ginevra Panzetti Enrico TicconiAs slipping out of the cloth of constantly fluttering flags, heraldic symbols take form and weight. Chimerical beings and one...
Flowing Connection
Fabian ThoméWe will start by awakening the body with breathing exercises working from the joints towards the movement, to be able to flow...
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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