Category: DANCE LABS

Less than a month of training with an established dancer/choreographer. The intensives end with a short performance/showing at the end of the intensive.

Allowing dancers to discover different styles and internalize various techniques in contemporary dance and physical theater. 

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DANCELAB WITH SYLIVA GRIBAUDI

  • Sylvia Gribaudi’s works are characterized by light-heartedness, irony, and freedom. The workshop offers an exploration of the poetic dimension that Sylvia Gribaudi explores, emphasizing the vivacity and presence of the body. Participants will engage in a journey where humor and play are integrated into bodily expression and gesture. The workshop will delve into the concept of the vital body, encouraging participants to embrace the value of imperfection and mistakes as avenues for creative expression.

Key Themes:

  • Revitalizing physicality through self-irony and dance dynamics
  • Exploring how dance influences body perception within a playful environment

  • Morning Classes: Open to the public from 10 AM to 11:15 AM
  • Full Workshop: Dancers will be selected to participate in this comprehensive training program, enhancing their professional and technical performance skills. The workshop will run from 10 AM to 3 PM, starting from the 8th to the 12th of July.
  • Public Showing: Participants will present the outcomes of the dance intensive through a public performance on July 13th, with the specific timing to be announced later. Participants who will participate in the showing can be absent for up to one day.
  • Dates: 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th & 13th (Public showing) of July. Time: 10AM – 3PM (everyday except for tuesday the 9th/ 10am -12pm & 13th)

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DANCE LABS HAPPENING NOW 
Graces by Silvia Gribaudi 
A Humorous Contemporary Dance Performance 
  • Tuesday 9th, 9:00PM
  • Al Madina Theater

  • The Italian Cultural Institute & Beirut Physical Lab in Collaboration with Zebra Production presents an award-winning humorous contemporary dance performance: “Graces”
  • Graces is a project inspired by The Three Graces, a sculpture created by Antonio Canova between 1812 and 1817. The work draws from mythology: Zeus’ three daughters – Euphrosyne, Aglaea, and Thalia – radiate splendor, joy and prosperity. Three male figures – Siro Guglielmi, Matteo Marchesi, and Andrea Rampazzo – take the stage in a space and time suspended between the human and the abstract: a place where male and female meet without roles and dance to the rhythm of nature itself. They perform together with the author Silvia Gribaudi, who likes to define herself as ‘author of the body’ because her poetics elevates imperfections to an art form with a direct, cruel, and empathetic comic style without any boundaries among dance, theater, and performing arts.
  • Over the past ten years, Silvia Gribaudi has been questioning gender stereotypes, female and male identities, and the concept of virtuosity in dance and daily life, expanding beyond clichés and appearances.
  • “With generous humor and radical empathy, the Italian choreographer Silvia Gribaudi elevates notions of human imperfections into an art form beyond clichés and appearances. Drawn from the sculpture The Three Graces (Antonio Canova 1812-1817) – representing Zeus’ daughters Euphrosyne, Aglaea, and Thalia – the three male performers together with Silvia search for new meanings of the word ‘grace’. With dance and text, but most of all with warmth and lightness, the performance reveals a core of our humanity.”
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BEIROOT BODIES

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Fabian Thome’s Workshop

Within the framework of Bipod- Beirut International Platform of Dance 2022 and with the support of the Embajada de España, Beirut Physical Lab is collaborating with Maqamat to organize the workshop given by the  Fabian Tohme from 21 to 25 May 2022.

About the workshop:

To be able to flow and unite the breath with the movement, we will begin by awakening the body with breathing exercises that work from the joints to the movement.
We’ll keep exploring and seeking for new ways to use the floor, focusing on different aspects of movement, dynamics, and space.
In the second phase, we’ll focus on touch and improvisation with a stated notion in order to explore and develop various interpretive aspects.

The outcome of this workshop will be a performance within the Bipod Festival.

To register for the workshop, you must fill out the form via the link below:

https://beirutphysicallab.org/application-form/

Application deadline: Sunday, May 15, 12:00 noon, Beirut local time.

About Fabian Thome:

Fabian received his diploma from Madrid’s Real Conservatorio Profesional de Danza in 2004.
Since 2013, he’s been studying with choreographers like Sharon Fridman and Carlos Fernandez Fuentes to improve and expand his skills.
He is a dancer, choreographer, and instructor whose choreography has won first prize at the XXXIII edition of CERTAMEN COREOGRAFICO DE MADRID 2019 and Best Interpretation at the Burgos-New York Contest in 2014.
In June 2015, he joined Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Eatsman as a dancer and teacher.

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