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 Charlie Prince (1991) is a Lebanese  dance & performance artist currently based in Montréal, Canada . His interests are rooted in the intersection of the political and the poetic body, and the many profound resonances this may create. 
His trandisciplinary choreographic work and installations have been presented in several major festivals and theatres– including SPRING Festival(NL), Dansmakers Amsterdam (NL), Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (FR), Vancouver International Dance Festival (CA), Oktoberdans (NO), Fabricca Europa (IT) and BIPOD (LB). 
As a performer, Charlie has worked among others with Andrea Peña & Artists (CA), Compagnie Alias (CH) , Benoit LaChambre (CA),, La Biennale di Venezia (dir. Marie Chouinard), Cie Tumbleweed (BE)  and has been collaborating with  Omar Rajeh - Maqamat in Beirut as a performer since 2015. 
In 2019 saw the birth of his first piece NOT ON THIS EARTH, a collaboration with Dutch-based choreographer Keren Rosenberg addressing conflict as a human condition, created and premiered at DANSMAKERS in Amsterdam, NL. The work was described by TheaterKrant as ‘hot, unstoppable and painful’ and went on to perform in Utrecht, Marseille and Montréal.
In 2021, Charlie premiered Cosmic A* at SPRING Festival in Utrecht, NL. This explosive and virtuosic solo , accompanied by live musician Joss Turnbull, received critical acclaim and was presented on several major platforms in Germany, Italy and France throughout the year.
In 2022 he premiered ‘L’ogre, le Phoenix et l’ami fidéle’, a 4 hour durational solo created in collaboration with choreographer and somatic practitioner Benoit Lachambre.at the Vancouver International Dance Festival (CA). The piece addresses questions regarding healing, recognition, and resilience in Lebanese collective memory of the civil war and historical amnesia. 
That same year he was commissioned to create  Migration Parade: Helical Song , a gallery installation in response to the felted sculptures of Alexandra Goodall and the sound installation of Danielle Savage. The work involved 6 performers, weaving within a mycelium of co-habitation and rhizome and ran at the Penticton Art Gallery, BC.  Charlie also premiered in 2022 ‘states of body produced by an emergency’ as part of the FLY project initiated by the Ecole de Danse Contemporaine de Montréal. A work for 6 emerging professional dancers that addresses how the body can hope, celebrate and commune within and in front of the state of global collapse.
 Charlie holds a Bachelor of Music from McGill University in Montréal with a minor in Relgious Studies- and continues to engage as a composer in his artistic practice.
In 2018 he received the prestigious Boghossian Foundation Prize for Dance and Performance awarded by Villa Empain in Brussels and Beirut.  He was also an apap 2020 artist supported by European Union Commision for Culture from 2017-2020.