‘The body is a sacred place, because it bursts with life, and lasts briefly’
– Etel Adnan
Date: 21 September
Time: 19.30
TICKETS
Ord.price:
200:-
Supporting member:
150:-
Student/Pensioneer/Under 26 years:
100:-
Ticket release Monday 27th of April
The body symphonic is a solo performance – concert that observes the body as a site of resistance, an engaged this body which journeys through rituals of excavation – revealing new and unbound mythologies and allowing for a limitless agency of self-representation and rootedness.
Created in response to the multiple political and geopolitical crises in Lebanon – this work is a meditation on the body’s place in the struggle for liberation , where looking back , looking in and forward become strategies of steadfastness and liberation.
Charlie Prince Khalil
Choreographer
Charlie Khalil Prince (1991) is a Lebanese Lebanese dancer, choreographer, and musician whose work merges movement, sound, and political consciousness into transcendent performance. His practice explores the body as site, symbol, and archive, positioning vulnerability as rebellion, and performance as a space of memory, resistance, and renewal. Blending music and movement into one living gesture, he transforms the body into both vessel and witness, navigating between mourning and visionary futures that resist cultural subjugation.
Prince’s choreographic work has been presented internationally at FTA – Festival TransAmèriques, ImPulsTanz, Dansmakers Amsterdam, Les Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, the Vancouver International Dance Festival among others, and the Beirut International Platform of Dance. In 2023, he was artist-in-residence at the Villa Empain in Brussels, where he received the Boghossian Foundation award for dance and performance.
He was selected as one of the Aerowaves25 Artists with his solo work the body symphonic.
Dance is essential: an insistence on life, memory, and resistance in times of crisis.
CREDITS
Concept & Performance: Charlie Prince
Music: Joss Turnbull
Dramaturgy: Erin Hill
Light Design: Joe Levasseur
Live Music performed by Joss Turnbull on tombak, sampling, live electronics.
Samples and recordings from the voice of Mouneer Saeed, from Mustafa Said’s Into The Silent Zone في رحاب الضمت and of an excerpt from Sextant by Stellar Banger.
Coproduced by : Charleroi Danse (BE) Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationale Seine-Saint-Denis (FR) VIADANSE Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté à Belfort (FR), Omar Rajeh – Maqamat (LB), Tanz! Heilbronn (DE)
Premiere date: May 28, 2021 @ SPRING Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
