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Beirut Summer School For Theater & Performance
​Summer 2021

8 workshops - 8 Artists - 8 Participants - 4 weeks - 1 Venue - ​84 Hours of Knowledge sharing

Program Summary

​Total Workshops: 8 
Total Hours: 84

Venues: 4
Duration: ​4 Weeks

Team members

Founder & Program Director: alaa minawi 
Assistant Director: Georges Aboud 
 Coordinator: Raya Abou Khair
Production Managers; Lea Boukaram - Maryana Rozaik
Communication & Social media: Naré Kurkjian​

Workshops 

Choreography with Petra Serhal:
 Petra shares her artistic practice and her use of choreography as research and in the creation process ... (click here for more)


Dress codes for theater play characters with Bshara Atallah
The workshop puts into the light how costume designers/stylists for plays find many different ways to make the characters shine with their best dress codes for different scenes in a play... (click here for more)

Let's ​Play Introduction to Improvisation ​with Ali Dawi​
The workshop is an introductory course to the basics of improvisational theater. Improvisation, in theatre, is the playing of dramatic scenes without written dialogue and with... (click here for more)
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A Contemporary Dance Workshop with Ali Chahrour​
A dance workshop that deals with the techniques of the sequences of movements in the logic of contemporary dance, working on the methods of creating contemporary choreography. (click here for more)

The Narrative in Light with alaa minawi
The presence of the light designer in a performance assumes the presence of his/her personal narrative. This workshop involves a series of attempts to search for the designer’s personal story in the lights...(click here for more) ​

Writing theatre, writing about theatre ​with Mona Merhi
This workshop is a many-fold encounter where participants will be invited to think how theatre and performance in our region are being written. While many of us fall in the trap of considering that “writing theatre” ends with the end of the performance...(click here for more) ​
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Dramaturgy: performance politicized ​with Hashem Adnan
The workshop will explore the political dimension lying behind every aspect of performance creation, looking at the political within theater works as well as the politics around making theater here today. We ... (click here for more)

Building a Character with Carole Abboud
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The workshop will introduce a mix of several acting methods that Carole learned through out her career in addition to her own experience and reflection. It is very important to mention that interested applicants must have an... (click here for more)

Location

Laban Studio - Beirut Lebanon 

Dates

7 June - 7 July 2022

Participants (Summer 2021)

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Fatima Meroueh is a senior theater student in the Lebanese university. She has participated in many workshops including voice, performing arts and dance. Fatima experienced different types of theater like improvisation, Clowning and mime, Interactive theater and Puppetry.
She wrote and directed her play “ Disassociation” and performed it with her twin sister in the Lebanese university. She works as a freelance voice over artist after earning a certificate in voice dubbing. She recently started working as a screenwriter.
Ibrahim Khalil, born in 1985 is a professional playbacker and improvisor. He has a great passion for art and Arabic literature. This led him to publish his first poetry book under the name of  " ما هي إلا لحظات". Then he was introduced to playback theater through "Laban"  and has been a member of the playback 8troupe "وصل" since 2017 and the improv troupe  since 2018. He  believes in art as a tool for social change and self-expression . Ibrahim particated in many theatre-related Workshops on topics such as : acting from Imagination (Michel Chekhov Europe),  Clowning, Acting & directing (Homemade theater), Physical expression in theater (Aida sabra), Light design (Alaa Minawi), Articulation ( Rashad zaater) and many others. He participated as an actor in  3 scripted plays  and  2 student short films . He has written, directed and produced one play called "هذا الشتاء" in 2018.  He is currently working to publish his 2nd book in poetry in 2022.

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