© Tony Elieh

Beytna

Omar Rajeh
Date
6 avr. 2016
Heure
20:30
Durée
1h 20m

A propos

"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 est une compagnie de danse fondée à Beyrouth en 2002 par Omar Rajeh et qui s'est installée à Lyon en 2020 dans la perspective de développer ses projets créatifs et culturels en France et à l'international. Elle a joué un rôle majeur dans l'organisation, la création et l'implantation d'une scène de danse contemporaine au Liban et dans la région. Elle a fondé de grands projets de danse tels que BIPOD-Beirut International Platform of Dance, Takween, un programme de formation intensive, Moultaqa Leymoun, une plateforme soutenant des artistes du monde arabe et plus récemment la plateforme numérique Citerne.live.

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