‘The body is a sacred place, because it bursts with life, and lasts briefly’
- Etel Adnan

the body symphonic (2024) 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.

manifesto

The body is a site of being.
It is matter that is shaped, deformed , that ascends and emerges.
It is a site of revolution, of oppression.
Of representation and mis-representation. Of wholeness and fragmentation.

It is the surface where ideas and action meet.
It is the container of manifestos, of traumas,
of unanswered questions and fragile answers.
The body has never crystallized. 
It is always becoming.
Over and over again

Dates:
April 25-26, 2025 @ Aerowaves - Spring Forward Festival, Gorizia, Italy
March 15, 2025 @ Vicenza, Italy
March 13, 2025 @ Orbita Spellbound, Rome, Italy
March 6, 8, 2025 @ Vancouver International Dance Festival, Canada
February 13 2025 @ What Next Festival, Limerick, Ireland
April 20, 2024 @ Beirut International Platform of Dance, Lebanon
March 9, 2024 @ Movement Research Festival, New York City, USA
May 18, 2022 @ Tanz!Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
May 15, 2022 @ Tanzzentrale, Furth,Germany
June 1, 2, 2021 @ Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine St.Denis, Paris, France
May 28, 29 @ SPRING Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands

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