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About
Telescope Beirut is a one-week initiative within the Creative Europe project, SHIFT. It offers a unique lens to explore, magnify, and discover new perspectives in dance and performance. Artists selected from across Europe and the Mediterranean will be accompanied by a group of professionals to advise, support, and inspire their ongoing projects.
Taking place for the first time in Lebanon, Telescope Beirut offers a dynamic week of dance workshops, talks, discussions, studio presentations, and select performances in non-conventional spaces.
Telescope Beirut is an open creative platform and a space for artistic exchange for the local dance artists, professionals, amateurs, or simply anyone passionate about movement and performance. This is your chance to be part of an inspiring creative environment.
Please note that not all events are streamed.
For registration and inquiries you can contact: info@maqamat.org
Presentations of the artists
Dominique TeghoRomane PiffautAhmad Baba Clara-Marie MüllerThe four artists selected for the Telescope Beirut program share a glimpse into the work they have been developing throughout...
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The fold of a landscape Yet so far
Heine AvdalThe workshop residency will focus on exploring various movement improvisations that engage with the architecture, or structur...
Linga intensive tools and repertory workshop
Marco CantalupoThe workshop will focus on the energetic and physical vocabulary of the Company, and particularly on Flow, the piece inspired...
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Spectatorship as activity | The exchange between performance & spectator
Paraskevi TektonidouThe spectator as an essential part of the creation: This process focuses on developing an awareness of how a performance enga...
How am I Here
Mey Seifan"How Am I Here?" Mey Seifan & Slowfuture is a transmedial performance by choreographer Mey Seifan, exploring the recurring ni...
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The DasArts Feedback Method A toolkit for reflection
Manolis TsiposIn this session, the selected artists from Beirut will be introduced to the DasArts Feedback Method — a structured and creati...
Improvised encounters
SHIFTAn immersive experience as artists from diverse backgrounds come together in spontaneous and collaborative improvisation sess...
Taranto Aleatorio
La ChachiTwo women eat sunflower seeds in a park, a doorway and a courtyard. They share a common space, a conversation, the intimacy o...
USE AND ABUSE PARTICIPATORY THEATER IN THE ERA OF MANDATORY PARTICIPATION
Roger BernatTheater is the collective elaboration of a working hypothesis that only happens when, after leaving the show, the awareness o...
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SHIFT
Co-funded by the European Union, SHIFT, which stands for ‘Shaping Harmony, Innovating Forms & Thought’, questions the forms of space organization in people’s lives culturally, politically and socially. The project seeks to explore new formats of artistic expression, community engagement, and audience interaction, involving artists, experts, and citizens from multiple EU and Mediterranean countries.
By fostering a shift from mere observation to active participation and immersion, SHIFT focuses on investigating new spatial relationships, and shifting the emphasis from 'visual aesthetics' in conventional venues to dynamic 'aesthetics of action' in adaptable, non-dedicated performance spaces
The project is led by Cie Omar Rajeh & Maqamat (France), Fondazione Fabbrica Europa per le arti contemporanee (Italy), Albania Dance Meeting (Albania). In association with France Travail Scènes et Images- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France), Beit El Raqs (Lebanon), Teatri Kombetar Eksperimental Kujtim Spahivogli (Albania)
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