Summer 2024

ABOUT

The Summer 2024 Program offers a series of theater and performance workshops conducted by renowned practitioners from Lebanon and the world who share their experiences, working methods, and perspectives within their own practice. The school includes workshops in Acting, Directing, Dance, Improvisation, Light Design, among many others. For 2024, a total of 16 workshops will be offered within a span of five weeks.

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WHO CAN APPLY?

Theater and performance arts students in their last years of study, fresh graduates, and young professional practitioners are the main targeted group. Individuals who have been around the theater and performance arts field and would like to be exposed to different perspectives in the arts. The school opened its doors to any participants who have less prior experience in theater but quite interested in the subject matter. Emerging artists residing in Lebanon, and Egypt are welcome to apply.
If you are an emerging artist from any other Arab country and would like to apply, you are welcome to apply.

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A SCHOLARSHIP FOR EMERGING ARTISTS FROM EGYPT

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With the support of the Spanish Embassy in Lebanon and Fonds de soutien aux arts arabes , the Beirut Summer School for theater and performance was be able to offer three scholarships for emerging artist from Egypt to join the school's program for summer 2024.
The school covered:
- Flight Ticket
- Visa Cost
- Per diem
- Accommodation
- Transportation contribution

PALESTINE IN THE BEIRUT SUMMER SCHOOL

We in the Beirut Summer School are aware of what is happening around us. Being engaged in our program does not distract us. In fact we consider it an act of defiance against the harsh realities that we are all living in. We know for a fact that our fates are intertwined and our salvation will only be for all of us together. For this reason، we would like to announce that the whole 2024 Beirut Summer School program is dedicated to Gaza and its people. And although the school has always opened its doors for any emerging artist residing in Lebanon regardless of their race, religion, nationality or orientation. For this year، we decided to reserve a spot for Palestinians residing in Lebanon. If you are an emerging Palestinian artist residing in Lebanon, you are more than welcome to apply.
If you are living in an area outside Beirut, we are working on a scholarship to cover your commute through out the period. We cannot promise it yet.

WORKSHOPS

Anatomical Structure of the Character
with Cyrine Gannoun
provides artists with a unique opportunity to deeply explore the relationship between their own bodies and the ....

Contemporary Dance Workshop
with Ali Chahrour
A dance workshop that deals with the techniques of the sequences of movements.

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. ..

Presenting Absence
with Sawsan Bou Khaled
How to materialize an abstract idea? how to Make an idea concrete? Metamorphosis of the body, via costume and accessories.

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 invol....

Drama Therapy for Personal Growth
with Zeina Daccache
In this workshop Participants will: - Deepen their self-knowledge. - Identify desired change, and take steps (using creative ....

Dress Codes
with Bshara Attalah
The workshop puts into the light how costume designers/stylists for plays find many ...

ّIntroduction to Oriental Scales
with Ziad El Ahmadieh
The workshop is practical and theoretical. Every maqam in oriental music has a special atmosphere and feeling...

Sound for theater
with Ziad moukarzel
The workshop how to creatively use sound technology in theater.

Voices Bodies
with Farah Azrak
An invitation for creative artistic research and practice through movement and voice. ..

Theater directing; a negotiation with the present
with Hashem Adnan
Directing involves a sequence of stages that can be constructed and reconstructed...

The Actor's presence
with Hala Omran
The "Presence" on stage is a kind of magic that the actor creates by developing his techniques: Voice, Body, Rhythm, Energy,...

Technical Lights
with Mohamad Farhat
Introduce the participant to the technical side of light design (Electricity, Dimmers, and more).

Writing
with Chrystele Khodr
The workshop would focus on writing for theater as a political, experimental and collective space. ...